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American Justice on Trial

This lesson is designed to raise students' awareness of events surrounding Japanese American internment during World War II, as well as the political and human rights issues that are associated with this episode. It is based on a mock trial in which the United States government is being prosecuted for ...

9-12

American Justice on Trial

On February 19, 1942, at the height of U.S. involvement in World War II, President Roosevelt authorized military leaders within the War Department to place all Japanese Americans residing on the West Coast in detention camps. The following months saw the relocation of some 120,000 Japanese Americans, of ...

9-12

Awards and Achievements of Nisei Soldiers

Lessons in this unit:

• The European Front

9-12

Changing Perspectives on the Japanese Internment Experience

In this interactive and multi-disciplinary lesson, students learn about the role that perspective plays in the writing of history by focusing on the changing views about Japanese-American internment camps during World War II. Students will demonstrate what they've learned by creating a project that demonstrates a biased view of ...

9-12

Citizenship Denied: An Integrated Unit on the Japanese American Internment

In 1942, 110,000 Japanese Americans living on the West Coast of the United States were relocated to ten internment camps. It took another forty years for the US government to recognize the violations of this population's constitutional rights. From studying the experiences of those interned, students will recognize ...

5-8
9-12

Civil Rights and Japanese American Incarceration

In this curriculum, students will: Learn and analyze the concept of civil rights; develop a basic understanding of the events leading up to and including the mass removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II; become familiar with the diversity of Japanese American experiences; analyze the decision to ...

Lessons in this unit:

• Lesson 1: Setting the Context
• Lesson 1: Setting the Context - Activity 1-1: An Introduction to Civil Rights
• Lesson 2: The Immigration Years
• Lesson 2: The Immigration Years - Activity 2-1: A Japanese Immigrant Experience
• Lesson 3: Prelude to Incarceration
• Lesson 3: Prelude to Incarceration - Activity 3-1: Perspectives Through Popular Media
• Lesson 3: Prelude to Incarceration - Activity 3-2: Japanese American Perspectives Through Congressional Testimonies
• Lesson 4: The Incarceration Years
• Lesson 4: The Incarceration Years - Activity 4-1: U.S. Government Perspectives Through a Newsreel
• Lesson 4: The Incarceration Years - Activity 4-2: Perspectives Through Photographs
• Lesson 4: The Incarceration Years - Activity 4-3: Perspectives of a Scholar in the Camps Through His Writings
• Lesson 4: The Incarceration Years - Activity 4-4: Perspectives of Incarcerated Japanese Americans Through Poetry and Art
• Lesson 4: The Incarceration Years - Activity 4-5: Perspectives of a Caucasian Woman in Heart Mountain Incarceration Camp
• Lesson 4: The Incarceration Years - Activity 4-6: Perspectives Through an Autobiography
• Lesson 4: The Incarceration Years - Activity 4-7: Japanese Latin American Perspectives Through Photographs and a Newspaper Article
• Lesson 4: The Incarceration Years - Activity 4-8: Perspectives Through a Dramatic Reading
• Lesson 5: The Question of Loyalty
• Lesson 5: The Question of Loyalty - Activity 5-1: Perspectives of Japanese American Soldiers Through Autobiographies and Letters
• Lesson 5: The Question of Loyalty - Activity 5-2: Perspectives of the Military Intelligence Service Through an Autobiography
• Lesson 5: The Question of Loyalty - Activity 5-3: Perspectives of Resisters Through Editorials
• Lesson 5: The Question of Loyalty - Activity 5-4: Perspectives of a No-No Boy Through an Excerpt From a Novel
• Lesson 6: Legacies of Incarceration: Redress
• Lesson 6: Legacies of Incarceration: Redress - Activity 6-1: Perspectives on Redress and Reparations
• Lesson 6: Legacies of Incarceration: Redress - Activity 6-2: Contemporary Perspectives on the Mass Removal and Incarceration of Japanese Americans

9-12
undergraduate

Civil Rights and Japanese-American Internment

This curriculum module offers students the opportunity to consider civil rights issues in the context of the Japanese-American experience during the immigration years and during World War II, and the legacies of these experiences as they impact Japanese Americans today.

9-12
undergraduate

Defining Moments: Frank Murphy, Fred Korematsu, and the Internment of Japanese Americans During World War II

Michigan Government Television presents a package of curriculum materials dealing with the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII, with the U.S. Supreme Court case of Korematsu v. U.S. Government, and with the dissenting opinion in that case of Michigan's Frank Murphy, a U.S. Supreme Court justice ...

Lessons in this unit:

• Defining Moments Lesson 1: Framing the Problem
• Defining Moments Lesson 2: Analyzing Data
• Defining Moments Lesson 3: Making a Decision
• Defining Moments Lesson 4: Biographical Comparison
• Defining Moments Lesson 5: Personal Decision Making
• Defining Moments Lesson 6: The "Yellow" Peril
• Defining Moments Lesson Plan Extension Ideas
• Defining Moments Unit Lesson Plans

9-12

Detecting Bias in Primary Sources: Amache Relocation Camp

At the conclusion of this lesson, the learner will be able to observe and interpret print and photo primary sources; identify and evaluate bias in primary sources; research and gather both print and electronic secondary information on Relocation camps in the United States, 1942-1945; hypothesize why Japanese and Japanese-Americans were ...

9-12

Diamonds in the Rough: Baseball and Japanese-American Internment

This guide (with accompanying book and documentary) can be used as a supplement to SPICE's comprehensive curriculum unit, Civil Rights and Japanese-American Internment. It is also suggested that activities from this activity guide be utilized as a supplement to U.S. history textbook coverage of Japanese-American internment during World ...

5-8
9-12