The activity involved the reading of a true story about a Japanese family that had to endure the relocation camps during World War II. It details the conditions they were forced to live in and the way they felt about their ordeal. War makes people do strange things and the Civilian Exclusion Order No. 27 issued in 1942 seems unfathomable to me in our day and age. To better describe to students how the Japanese people must have felt at the time they were taken from their homes I chose this activity: Write a journal entry in which you imagine you have 30 minutes to gather a small suitcase of important belongings before being sent to an unknown place for an unspecified period of time. You may not take any electrical or battery-operated items such as a Walkman or hair dryer. What items do you choose and why? Describe how you would feel about being forced to leave your home.Friday, February 16, 2007
Teaching Tolerance
The activity involved the reading of a true story about a Japanese family that had to endure the relocation camps during World War II. It details the conditions they were forced to live in and the way they felt about their ordeal. War makes people do strange things and the Civilian Exclusion Order No. 27 issued in 1942 seems unfathomable to me in our day and age. To better describe to students how the Japanese people must have felt at the time they were taken from their homes I chose this activity: Write a journal entry in which you imagine you have 30 minutes to gather a small suitcase of important belongings before being sent to an unknown place for an unspecified period of time. You may not take any electrical or battery-operated items such as a Walkman or hair dryer. What items do you choose and why? Describe how you would feel about being forced to leave your home.
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