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from Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James Houston p. 354. It Can’t Be Helped. Background: Japanese Internment Camps. internment : (n) the holding of something temporarily. Japanese Internment : when all Japanese Americans were forced to move to isolation
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fromFarewell to Manzanarby Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James Houston p. 354 It Can’t Be Helped
Background: Japanese Internment Camps • internment: (n) the holding of something temporarily. • Japanese Internment: when all Japanese Americans were forced to move to isolation camps during WWII. • Manzanar: internment camp; located in California.
Evacuation The Japanese Quarter of San Francisco on the First Day of Evacuation from this Area. -- Photographer: Lange, Dorothea -- San Francisco, California. 4/29/42
Quickwrite Imagine: What if you and your family were suddenly forced to leave your home, and you could only take whatever you could carry? • What would you take with you? • What would have to be left behind? • How would you feel? • Write a paragraph on your story notes in response to this prompt.