Farewell to Manzanar
NOTES & Questionnaire
1. Where do
you think
this is?
2. What year
could it
be?
Please write a
brief explanation
of what these
young people
are
experiencing:
Camps (Take notes)
• Gave inside look on the
camps
• Horrible condition
bathrooms
• Thrown together makeshift
lodging
• Limited space, blankets,
light
• Mess halls, their employees,
and conditions
Post-Camps (take notes)
• Ghettos towns and housing projects for
Japanese
• Little or no work
• Working until death
• Long days, long hours
• Small homes and
• Shacks
• No quality of life
How old do you
think these boys
are?
What did a typical day
at Manzanar consist
of?
How do you think families spent their free time?
What do you think
“manzanar” stands for?
Look it up if you do not
know!
Who do you
think this
belonged to?
How
important do
you think
faith was in
Manzanar?
How many hours a day do you
think families had to work?
What other types of activities do you think families could
do in the camp?
Overview
Farewell to Manzanar gives
informative and personal
insights on Jeanne
Wakatsuki’s family and life
throughout their time in
Manzanar.
After Jeanne lives through the
prison camp and the wars
and segregation are over,
she becomes the first in her
family to go to college. She
marries out of her race and
has two kids.
PREDICTIONS?!?!
• Please make the following predictions based on what
you just answered: What will happen at the end of the
novel Farewell to Manzanar ?
•
2. How many internment camps do you think there
were after the bombing of Pearl Harbor?
http://www.momomedia.com/CLPEF/camps.html
• 3. Write a short story about (first person perspective)
your family being taken away to an internment camp
– what are the details needed in your story?