(1.2.f.

) SWBAT
identify groups that
have been restricted
from becoming
American citizens
over the 20th
century and analyze
why.
Given an exit card &
document, SWBAT:
(80% accuracy) 1.
Answer 3 MC
questions 2. Write a
SEEC paragraph for
the following:
Japanese
internment camps.
T-EQ: Was the US
justified in putting
Japanese people in
internment camps?
O-EQ: How does war
impact the thoughts
and actions of people
beyond the battlefield?

Title: Japanese Interment

Date: November 19, 2014

Write down the

Topical Essential Question.

(1.2.f.) SWBAT
identify groups that
have been restricted
from becoming
American citizens
over the 20th
century and analyze
why.
Given an exit card &
document, SWBAT:
(80% accuracy) 1.
Answer 3 MC
questions 2. Write a
SEEC paragraph for
the following:
Japanese
internment camps.
T-EQ: Was the US
justified in putting
Japanese people in
internment camps?
O-EQ: How does war
impact the thoughts
and actions of people
beyond the battlefield?

Internment
forced imprisonment

and relocation of a
group of people,
particularly during a
time of war.

Japanese-Americans
were interned in the
U.S. almost
immediately after
war was declared in
1941.

Prediction: How do you think

Japanese Americans
responded to the issue of
forced relocation? Explain!
CHALLENGE! - What impact
do you think internment had
on Japanese families and
communities.

(1.2.f.) SWBAT
identify groups that
have been restricted
from becoming
American citizens
over the 20th
century and analyze
why.
Given an exit card &
document, SWBAT:
(80% accuracy) 1.
Answer 3 MC
questions 2. Write a
SEEC paragraph for
the following:
Japanese
internment camps.
T-EQ: Was the US
justified in putting
Japanese people in
internment camps?
O-EQ: How does war
impact the thoughts
and actions of people
beyond the battlefield?

Pearl Harbor sparked an

uproar of suspicion toward
Japanese-Americans

More than 119,000 people

of Japanese ancestry were
living in California,
Washington, and Oregon.

TWS
Although some Germans
and Italians were
harassed during the war,
forced relocation never
occurred for them. Why
do you think this was the
case? Explain!

2/3rds of them American

Citizens

Demands arose for the

removal of the Japanese
from the West Coast, as a
matter of national security

CHALLENGE What do
you think the
government had to
consider when forcibly
relocation such a large
number of people?
Explain!

(1.2.f.) SWBAT
identify groups that
have been restricted
from becoming
American citizens
over the 20th
century and analyze
why.
Given an exit card &
document, SWBAT:
(80% accuracy) 1.
Answer 3 MC
questions 2. Write a
SEEC paragraph for
the following:
Japanese
internment camps.
T-EQ: Was the US
justified in putting
Japanese people in
internment camps?
O-EQ: How does war
impact the thoughts
and actions of people
beyond the battlefield?

Executive Order 9066

Ordered the
relocation of 110,000
Jap.-Americans to 1
of 10 relocation
centers in the
western and
southeastern states.

Granada Center at
Amache was located
in southeastern
Colorado.

TWS
Why do you think the majority of
the interment camps were located
in the West?

(1.2.f.) SWBAT
identify groups that
have been restricted
from becoming
American citizens
over the 20th
century and analyze
why.
Given an exit card &
document, SWBAT:
(80% accuracy) 1.
Answer 3 MC
questions 2. Write a
SEEC paragraph for
the following:
Japanese
internment camps.

Korematsu v. United States (1944)

Korematsu was a Japanese-American in his 20s who

lived in Oakland when internment began in 1942.

After two failed attempts to enlist in the army to

avoid internment, he turned to posing as Chinese
and took a job in a trailer park

T-EQ: Was the US

justified in putting
Japanese people in
internment camps?
O-EQ: How does war
impact the thoughts
and actions of people
beyond the battlefield?

This was done so he would not have to be

separated from his white girlfriend

He was found guilty of violating the executive order

in 1944

(1.2.f.) SWBAT
identify groups that
have been restricted
from becoming
American citizens
over the 20th
century and analyze
why.
Given an exit card &
document, SWBAT:
(80% accuracy) 1.
Answer 3 MC
questions 2. Write a
SEEC paragraph for
the following:
Japanese
internment camps.
T-EQ: Was the US
justified in putting
Japanese people in
internment camps?
O-EQ: How does war
impact the thoughts
and actions of people
beyond the battlefield?

The internees wrote newspapers, had games for

recreation and even planted Victory Gardens to
help make life in the camps more bearable.

(1.2.f.) SWBAT
identify groups that
have been restricted
from becoming
American citizens
over the 20th
century and analyze
why.
Given an exit card &
document, SWBAT:
(80% accuracy) 1.
Answer 3 MC
questions 2. Write a
SEEC paragraph for
the following:
Japanese
internment camps.
T-EQ: Was the US
justified in putting
Japanese people in
internment camps?
O-EQ: How does war
impact the thoughts
and actions of people
beyond the battlefield?

Despite the injustices suffered by their families, over

16,000 young Japanese American men in the camps
volunteered for military service.

(1.2.f.) SWBAT
identify groups that
have been restricted
from becoming
American citizens
over the 20th
century and analyze
why.
Given an exit card &
document, SWBAT:
(80% accuracy) 1.
Answer 3 MC
questions 2. Write a
SEEC paragraph for
the following:
Japanese
internment camps.
T-EQ: Was the US
justified in putting
Japanese people in
internment camps?
O-EQ: How does war
impact the thoughts
and actions of people
beyond the battlefield?

At the end of the war, relocation was revoked and

the Japanese-Americans were released.

These American citizens were left to restart their

lives again.
Their homes, lands, and possessions were gone as a result of

their relocation.
Many Japanese Americans still faced racism when they tried
to find jobs and new homes.

Civil Liberties Act of 1988

Provided for an apology and $20,000 payment to
each remaining survivor of internment.

(1.2.f.) SWBAT
identify groups that
have been restricted
from becoming
American citizens
over the 20th
century and analyze
why.
Given an exit card &
document, SWBAT:
(80% accuracy) 1.
Answer 3 MC
questions 2. Write a
SEEC paragraph for
the following:
Japanese
internment camps.
T-EQ: Was the US
justified in putting
Japanese people in
internment camps?
O-EQ: How does war
impact the thoughts
and actions of people
beyond the battlefield?

In 1988, Congress passed legislation that gave

$20,000 to every Japanese American who had been
interned in the camps. In signing House Bill 442,
Reagan said, We are here to right a grave wrong.It
is not for us to pass judgment on those who made
mistakes. And yet the internment was just that a
mistake. The first payments were made to those 80
years and older in October 1990 accompanied with a
formal letter of apology.