Farewell+to+Manzanar

Pre Reading Activities Activity One

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What five factors contributed to the creation of the internment camps? What was executive order 9066? What choices did the Japanese detainees have with regard to their property? What recompense did the Japanese detainees receive at the end of the war?


 * Activity Two **

Based on the work from yesterday and the reading that you have completed so far, locate a reliable and valid website that is relevant to the content of Farewell to Manzanar. Complete and print the website evaluation form:  Type the following:
 * An MLA citation for the website.
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">A brief description of the content of the website.
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">A paragraph that includes significant details that were new to you about the Japanese internment camps.
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Include an image from the website.


 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Reader Response--November 17 **

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Respond to the following in your reading response journal:

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Briefly describe an injustice you have read about, witnessed, or experienced. How did you feel about what happened? How did you respond? To what extent has it shaped the way you see yourself and others?

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Respond to the following based on the notice here.
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Activity 3: Analyzing a Document **

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Read the poems "Can't Tell" and "In Response to Executive Order 9066: Americans of Japanese Descent Must Report to Relocation Centers" and respond to the following for each:
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">At whom was the notice aimed?
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">What actions are those individuals required to take?
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">What will happen to those individuals after they follow the instructions outlined in the poster?
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Euphemisms **
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">What is a non-alien?
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">What does the word evacuate mean? What is an evacuee?
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">What were the "new" or "temporary residences" to which General DeWitt refers throughout the document?
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">What is a "Civil Control Station"?
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">What is an "Assembly Center"?
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">What does the word instructions usually mean? Are the items listed in the document instructions or are they orders?
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Propaganda **
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">View some World War II propaganda posters here.
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Identify and explain the use of propaganda techniques.
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">How would posters like these feed the fear that allowed for the evacuation of Japanese Americans into internment camps.
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Activity Four **
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Idenitfy the speaker of each poem.
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Identify the tone of each. Provide at least 2 direct quotes to support your description of tone.
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Choose one and respond to the poem from a different point of vew or talk about how you can relate to one or the other poem and explain why.


 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Reader Response: November 24 **


 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">James F. Gilligan is a professor of psychiatry and states, "I have yet to see a serious act of violence that was not provoked by the experience of feeling shamed and humiliated, disrespected and ridiculed, and that did not represent the attempt to prevent or undo this 'loss of face'--no matter how severe the punishment, even if it includes death." How do his comments relate to Jeanne's father? What do they suggest about the relationship between respect and self esteem? Do you agree?


 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Loyalty matters as deeply to families as it does to nations. What does the word seem to mean to the Wakatsukis? What does their story suggest about the way they define their "universe of obligations''--the individuals and groups toward whom obligations are owed, to whom rules and laws apply and whose injuries call for amends? What does the book suggest about family loyalty? What does it suggest about the challenges of family loyalty?


 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Reader Response: December 3 **


 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Give examples of changes in Jeanne's relationship with her parents. Please be specific. Which changes are a result of internment and which are just part of growing up? Do these changes affect the way she sees herself as an individual?
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">How have Japanese Americans in Manzanar tried to recreate a "normality, a sense of some things continuing"? Why have they done so? Why do many become reluctant to leave? How are their fears an outcome of their years at Manzanar?
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">What does it mean to be seen as odd or different? As an outsider in your own country? How do those perceptions shape Jeanne's longing to be invisible? Her yearning to be like everyone else?


 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Reader Reflection: December 6 **


 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Write about one event, image, or idea that strongly affected you as you read the book. Why was it memorable? How does it relate to an experience in your own life or in the life of someone you know or have read about?

**<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Activity Five **
<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Irony: Reading Workbook

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Respond to the following:


 * 1) <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">To what extent is the title "Manzanar USA" an example of verbal irony?
 * 2) <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Why might the playing of a song entitled "Don't Fence Me In" while in an internment camp be considered an example of dramatic irony?
 * 3) <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Is Woody's draft notice an example of irony of situation?


 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Reader Response: December 8 **
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">What does Jeanne meane when she writes that you an only say farewell "when you've truly come to know a place"? In what sense has she come to know Manzanar?
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">How important are farewells? What does the word mean in the title to this book?
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Why does Jeanne believe that her visit has made understandable the traces of the past that still shape her identity? Why does she liken those traces to a needle? When does that needle jab at her?


 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Reader Reflection: December 9 **


 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">How do our confrontations with justice and injustice help shape our identity? How do these confrontations influence the things we say and do?