Letter from a Concentration
Camp & Letter to Scottie
By Yoshiko Uchida & F. Scott
Fitzgerald
Week 8
Part 2
The plan….
• Objectives
• Review
– Vocabulary
• About the Selection
• Background Information for Letter from a Concentration
Camp & Letter to Scottie
• Reading Skill
– Authors’ Styles
• Listen to the Stories
• Practice
– Workbook page 12
• Evaluation
– Workbook pages 13, 14, 15
• Preview
Objectives
• Students will analyze and respond to
author’s style in fiction and non-fiction
selections
• Students will compare the effect of the
authors’ style in their letters
Vocabulary
Use the following words in an original sentence OR give the definition
or a synonym
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Actual adj. _____________________________________
Barrack n. _____________________________________
Betrayed v. ____________________________________
Composed v. ____________________________________
Satisfactions n. _________________________________
Triumph n. _____________________________________
Virtue n. _______________________________________
Volume n. ______________________________________
Background
Letters and War
• Letters are important for people in difficult
situations to have contact with the outside
world
• Letters from a Concentration Camp is about the
Japanese and Japanese Americans that were
taken from their homes and put into camps
• Letter to Scottie is a letter from a father to a
daughter during the time of the Great
Depression with advice about life
Read the Story
• Open your books to page 476
• Listen and follow along to the different
stories
• Every time a listening selection ends you
will answer some questions
• Any other words you find in the reading that
you do not know, come write them on the
board!
Questions, p477
• What type of language is used in this
selection?
• How do you know if it is formal or informal?
Give examples
• What details about his surroundings make
the letter writer feel as if he is in a prison?
Questions, p478-9
• Look at the picture at the top of page 478, what
do you think these people are feeling?
• What is Jimbo’s attitude toward his situation?
• What did you find most difficult about Jimbo’s
situation?
• Why does Jimbo say that “war makes people
crazy”?
• Why does he mention his lesson about the Bill
of Rights? Why did the US deny people
hearings before sending them to camps?
Questions, p480-2
• Why is this letter straightforward and
uncomplicated?
• Which “don’t worry” items have to do with
competition?
• What is the author’s style of the letter?
• What would you do if you received this letter?
• What are their nicknames and how do they feel
about them?
• How is their relationship? How do you know?
What’s your relationship with your father like?
Compare Literary Works
Compare Literary Works
Compare Literary Works
Practice
• Open your workbooks to page 12 and
complete
Evaluation
• Complete the selection test
• Workbook pages 13, 14, 15
Preview
• Complete workbook pages!
The End
Way to be
Rock Stars!!
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