Diversity Lesson

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Diversity Lesson

• Stacey C. Burgess
• ED 301-02
• Farewell to ManzanarEthnic diversity

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Book Farewell to ManzanarByJeanne Wakatsuki
Huston James D. Huston

• This lesson is geared towards 10th grade
  students.
• This lesson teaches racial tolerance

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Quick summary

• For those who are not familiar with the novel, it
  is a true account of the Japanese interment camps
  during WWII.

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Objectives

• The objective of this lesson is to demonstrate
  racial tolerance.

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• Web links

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Asian American Literature History, Classroom
Use, Bibliography WWW Links

• This site caught my attention with this quote,
  Fiction books can be multi cultural,
  cross-cultural, or parallel-culture. Developing a
  relationship through a fictionalized character
  could be transferred to different culture. I
  believe that this is a very true statement.
• Students are often afraid to ask questions about
  another culture and this is a perfect way to
  address some of their questions.

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The Japanese American Internment

• This gives more of a historical take on the
  internment. Also, it provides very interesting
  photographs that validates the authors story.

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SCORE Farewell to Manzanar-Teacher Guide

• A nice detailed teaching guide for the book.
  Also includes the theme of racism.

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ML Literature Connections Teaching Guide

• Very good resource for paper ideas and research
  proposals.

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Japanese-American Internment in WWII Photographs
Exhibit, Univ. Utah

• This might be useful to supplement the authors
  account of her particular camp with others who
  werent interred with her.

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Lesson plans/Activities

• This lesson would have to stretch on for as long
  as it takes to read the novel.
• During the course of the novel certain activities
  could be done to aid in their understanding of
  what happened during the time era and why the
  camps were instated.
• Diversity/racial tolerance would be the theme
  that I would be teaching for the entire course of
  the novel.

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Activities
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Materials

• Materials would very.
• Video
• Book
• Web site material

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• One activity that would be great for the visual
  learner would be to watch such videos as Beyond
  the Barbed Wire, a portion of Bitter Memories
  True Lake, or Challenge to Democracy.

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• I would ask students to freewrite after they have
  read the novel to tell me their feelings on how
  the Japanese were treated during this time in
  history.
• Freewrites allow students to get out their
  feelings without worrying who is reading.
• Class discussion would be encourages after they
  have written.

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• If possible, invite a speaker (If possible a
  survivor) to talk to the students about the
  experience and possible ways for that kind of
  treatment of a specific race to happen again in
  the United States.

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Suggested Essay

• Ask students what they would consider a fitting
  tribute to those who suffered and died as a
  result of their experiences in the internment
  camps. Challenge them to design a memorial, with
  sketches and notes outlining their ideas and
  their reasons. The memorial may be a physical
  structure a work of art, literature, or music
  or a program to be implemented.
• ML Literature Connections.

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Essay Ideas

• Write a brief essay relating the treatment of
  Arab Americans after September 11 to how the
  Japanese were treated during WWII.
• Were there any similarities? What was the big
  differences?

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Poster

• Create a poster. A poster that depicts what
  happened leading up to the interment and possibly
  pictures from the internment camps. (This is
  where one of the web links becomes helpful).
• By doing this poster the students have to see
  what happened to the Japanese, Japanese that were
  citizens.

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Fictional poem

• After reading the book have students write a
  quick Where Im from poem from the main
  characters point of view and in small groups read
  poems aloud.

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Fictional paragraph

• Distribute pictures from website and have
  students write a fictional account of what
  happened based on the pictures
• This teaches the students how to think about
  others feelings. It takes them away from their
  culture and forces them to think about someone
  else.

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Works Cited

• Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki James Houston.
  Farewell to Manzanar. New York Bantam, 1995.