Mrs. Hemmelgarn
English II
Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston
Chapters 1-3 Study Guide and Internet Research: 20 points
Answer these questions using the book:
1. How long did Jeanne’s family live at Manzanar? (ix) ________________________________
2. When were they moved to Manzanar? (17) ___________________
3. How old was Jeanne? (3) __________________
4. Why was Papa arrested? (9) _____________________________________________________
5. For how long was he imprisoned? (9) ________________________
6. Where was he imprisoned? (15) __________________________________________________
7. TWO POINT QUESTION Complete the missing four names on this family tree: (22)
Granny
age 65, nearly blind
Ko Wakatsuki: Papa
over 50, lived in USA
for 35 years
Bill
married to Tomi
baby boy
Eleanor: married
to Shig, moved to
camp in Idaho
baby girl
Woody, 24
married to Chizu
Frances
not living with family
Riku Wakatsaki:
Mama
Martha
married to Kaz, not
living with family
___________, 14
___________, 13
___________, 11
___________, 10
Jeanne, 7
author & narrator
George
For questions 8 & 9, use
http://www.asianamericanmedia.org/jainternment/camps/index.html
8. How many Japanese Americans were resettled into camps? ___________________________
9. Using the “Temporary Detention Centers,” “Permanent WRA Camps,” and “Camp Life”
pages, identify 2 facts which are referred to in Chapters 1-3 of Farewell to Manzanar:
a. ________________________________________________________________________
b. ________________________________________________________________________
For questions 10 & 11, use http://www.nps.gov/manz/photosmultimedia/ansel-adamsgallery.htm
10. How many of the Japanese Americans at Manzanar were under 18? (Look at the bottom of
the page.) ___________________________
11. Browse Ansel Adams’s photos from Manzanar (and the photos of any of the other three
photographers in whom you are interested). Write 2 facts about life at Manzanar which the
photos reveal (do not simply write 2 people’s names):
a. ________________________________________________________________________
b. ________________________________________________________________________
For question 12, use http://www.nps.gov/archive/manz/virtualtour/tour/map.html
12. Take a look at the Manzanar map and virtual tour on this webpage. List two new details
you learned about the camp:
a. ________________________________________________________________________
b. ________________________________________________________________________
For question 13, use http://www.nps.gov/manz/historyculture/german-internment.htm
13. What do you discover on this webpage? ____________________________________________
14. If you have a German last name and/or ancestry, when did your ancestors immigrate to
America? (e.g. Heinrich Herman Hemmelgarn (originally Himmelgarten) from Hanover immigrated
to Ohio in the 1830s with his wife and five children.) ______________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
For questions 15-17, use http://www.gaic.info/index.html
15. How many German American and Latin American citizens and residents were sent to
internment camps during World War Two? _________________________________________
16. How does this number compare to the number of Japanese Americans who were interned
(see question 8)? ________________________________________________________________
17. Click on “Internment Camps” and scroll down to the “US Department of Justice Internment
Facilities” section. Click “Read more about Department of Justice Internment Facilities.”
Find the section about the camp to which Ko Wakatsuki was sent in December 1941 (see
question 6), and read the four paragraphs about this camp. What are the two most notable
facts you discovered?
a. ________________________________________________________________________
b. ________________________________________________________________________
For question 18, use http://www.foitimes.com/internment/Facesplaces.htm
18. Scroll through these images. Note your two most prominent observations below:
a. ________________________________________________________________________
b. ________________________________________________________________________
19. How would you have felt if, when you were seven, your father had been imprisoned in North
Dakota, then your whole family (all American citizens) had been imprisoned indefinitely,
simply because you have German heritage? _________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
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