![Panoramic view of students walking around the Manzanar Relocation Center in California in the 1940s.](/sites/default/files/styles/standard_hero_article_460_361_1x/public/2024-09/service-pnp-ppprs-00300-00338v.jpg?h=5d059bf2&itok=imwGcpSK)
Supporting Question 2: Japanese American Life in Incarceration Camps
Duration
Two 50-min class periodsSubject
- History
- Social Studies
Grade
9–12Language
English — USPublished
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Overview
About This Lesson
Students explore Supporting Question 2 through a series of activities that help them gain an understanding of Japanese American incarceration. They will learn about the incarceration camps through a survivor’s poem about the experience of incarceration and through observing photographs. They conclude with a Formative Task that asks them to complete a K-W-L chart detailing information they learned about the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.
Supporting Question
What was life like for Japanese Americans during incarceration?
Formative Task
Students will complete a K-W-L chart detailing information they learned about the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.
Resources in this Lesson
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Facing History & Ourselves
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Facing History & Ourselves
Lesson Plans
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