Lesson+12+-+Japanese+Internment

__Objectives:__ Students will
 * __Day 11: Japanese Internment __**
 * identify why Japanese-Americans were imprisoned during the war
 * describe internment and the internment camp experience

1) Do Now -p. 797 What was internment? Describe what Japanese Americans experienced.

2) Problem: The day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, America officially entered into World War II. Many Americans became suspicious of any and all Japanese-Americans due to the media. The President signed Executive Order 9066 in February of 1942, which made it legal for the US to extract Japanese-American families from their homes and confine them to internment camps located in the western United States. Question: Why were Japanese-Americans taken away from their homes and imprisoned during World War II? In groups of four, come up with a group hypothesis that answers the question. Use the worksheet to help you gather information. [|Internment worksheet.docx] Use your textbook p. 797-798 and the sources below to gather information. [|Executive Order 9066.docx] [|The Bill of Rights.docx] 3) Answer the following questions in your groups:
 * 1) What was the Executive Order 9066?
 * 2) What were the conditions in the camps?
 * 3) How would you feel towards the US government if this happened to you?
 * 4) What would you do to prevent this from happening again?
 * 5) In times of war, who is responsible for protecting the Bill of Rights?
 * 6) What constitutional rights of Japanese-American citizens were violated?
 * 7) Why do you think only Japanese-Americans and not German Americans or Italian Americans were singled out for internment?

Homework: write one of the following
 * Imagine yourself as a Japanese immigrant who has lived in America for 20 years and write a diary entry that includes your reaction to the bombing of Pearl Harbor and how you were put into the camps.
 * Imagine you are President Roosevelt and are faced with the difficult decision of whether or not to relocate Japanese-Americans into internment camps. In a persuasive essay format, defend why you would/would not sign Executive Order 9066.
 * Imagine you are a member of the President's Cabinet who has heard of the possibility of interning Japanese-Americans. Write a letter to President Roosevelt either in support of the internment camps or against the camps.