Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Activities
http://www.historynow.org/06_2008/lp3.html Use this site as a source for an excellent lesson with
interactive teacher modeling and visual archives.
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/99/fear/intro.html Full unit on how events were related to each
other and led to Japanese concentration camps.
Create MovieMaker of Powerpoint presentations using facts and photos about an aspect of the novel.
Include the works cited in the credits. (can use Google Docs for cooperative learning and ease of use)
Create a report, scrapbook, powerpoint or poster about people who are having their civil rights
disrupted in today’s world. Students draw comparisons between the past and present.
Resources
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/manzanar a resource for chapter summaries, theme, etc.
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http://www.janm.org/collections Japanese American National Museum contains lots of great articles
and historical materials. Check out the letters to Miss Breed, a librarian who wrote back and forth to
children in the camps.
http://www.asianamericanmedia.org/jainternment Another great site for tons of interactive materials.
http://www.children-of-the-camps.org captures the experiences of six Americans of Japanese ancestry
who were confined as innocent children to internment camps by the U.S. government during World
War II. Resources page has even more links for further exploration.
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