Webercise: World War II and Japanese Internment
This lesson, we will be discussing racial segregation and fear. We will be exploring how fear is a factor in racial segregation by exploring the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
You will be filling out a worksheet using a website already provided on the Resources page of this site. The Harry S. Truman Library's site's page discussing the War Relocation Authority & the Internment of Japanese Americans has detailed chronology, documents, oral histories, etc. documenting this unfortunate period of American history. You will also be exploring the Pearl Harbor website to find out more information about the attack on Pearl Harbor, and a page from the Japanese American History Museum in LA called "Dear Miss Breed." Clara Breed was a librarian in East San Diego who corresponded regularly with young people in the camps who had been her library patrons before they were relocated. The letters collected on the website are only a portion of the ones on display in the actual museum, but they will give you an idea of what life was like in the camps.
The point of the exercise is not only for you to find facts and dates, but also to have you think about the implications of such actions by our government and what repercussions these acts may have caused. We will be discussing this more in class.
Click the button to access the Webercise document you will be filling out.
You will be filling out a worksheet using a website already provided on the Resources page of this site. The Harry S. Truman Library's site's page discussing the War Relocation Authority & the Internment of Japanese Americans has detailed chronology, documents, oral histories, etc. documenting this unfortunate period of American history. You will also be exploring the Pearl Harbor website to find out more information about the attack on Pearl Harbor, and a page from the Japanese American History Museum in LA called "Dear Miss Breed." Clara Breed was a librarian in East San Diego who corresponded regularly with young people in the camps who had been her library patrons before they were relocated. The letters collected on the website are only a portion of the ones on display in the actual museum, but they will give you an idea of what life was like in the camps.
The point of the exercise is not only for you to find facts and dates, but also to have you think about the implications of such actions by our government and what repercussions these acts may have caused. We will be discussing this more in class.
Click the button to access the Webercise document you will be filling out.