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Wednesday, Dec. 7th

12/7/2016

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 Starter: FREE WRITE!
It has been awhile since we've had one of these!  Take the next 10 minutes to write about whatever you want. You can tell a creative story, or describe your morning in as much detail as possible.  Just keep writing for 10 minutes. It can be total stream of consciousness if you'd like.  

Mock Trial Role Selection: Read over and then fill out the trial role selection handout with your top three preferences for your mock trial role.  Make sure your name is on it!

Seminar Prep Work Time
  • By the end of class today you should be DONE with all the readings and documents
  • Tonight for homework do at least HALF of the response but decide for yourself how to manage your time as you'll only have 4O minutes of work time before seminar tomorrow.  Your seminar prep needs to be printed by 11:00 am tomorrow morning! That includes 1-page written response AND document-based responses.

Ticket Out The Door:  With a partner, write down responses to these two prompts for me:
  • How do you think we should structure the seminar tomorrow?  Document-based questions first? Just general free for all? Start with student questions? Open it up to just the driving question and people's general reactions then work through documents more systematically? What makes sense to you?
  • Come up with  2-3 questions for our seminar tomorrow.  They can either be based on the readings you have done this week or they can attempt to make your peers make connections to other events.  Make them thought-provoking!
  • Put your names on the notecard.

Mock Trial Roles have been established!!  Here they are!
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Tuesday, Dec. 6th: Day 2 of Japanese Internment Camp Historical Inquiry Seminar Prep

12/6/2016

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Starter
Look through these paintings depicting life at the Heart Mountain Relocation Camp in Wyoming by Estelle Peck Ishigo:
  • How do these paintings depict life in these camps?
  • Be sure to read the description of this collection written under the first painting on this page.  Do you trust this painter? Why or why not?

Work Time on Seminar Prep
  • Try to have completed a total of 4 of the documents + responses today
  • Tomorrow, aim to complete the other 4
  • You will have 50 minutes on Thursday to finish the 1 page reflection BUT you may need to do some of this for homework
  • Seminar will begin 4th period on Thursday
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Monday, Dec. 5th: Intro to Japanese Internment Historical Inquiry Seminar Prep

12/5/2016

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Agenda
Quick summary of what we watched in Snow Falling on Cedars on Friday (2 min)

Finish Snow Falling on Cedars  (50 min.)

Starter 36: 
What is your reaction to the above  video on my DP blog post for today? (10 min)
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Ashley's introduction to Thursday's Seminar and the required prep (10 min)
  • What are we doing this week?  
    This week's class work is designed to give you all more of a firsthand account of what life in Japanese Internment camps was like.  It is shocking how timely this topic is and how important it is for us to explore it given the anti-Muslim sentiments that exist today and potential policy proposals on the horizon.  Dig into these readings with an open heart and open mind!
  • Read over the instructions on page 15 of your notebooks
  • I would STRONGLY encourage annotating as  you read so that you can easily reference items in seminar discussion.  I am going to give a seminar participation grade this time.
  • Doc. 7 is the newspaper--- pick an article you think is important and respond to that.
  • Pay attention to themes in the poetry selections! Try to identify key words/phrases that reveal the tone and overall theme of each poem
  • Where can you find the documents? (hard copies available on table by the whiteboard, most digital copies available on Project Documents page)

​WORK TIME
  1. TURN IN YOUR NOTEBOOK pages 1-14 AND  the Nanking pages
  2.  Begin seminar prep
  3. Honors, you may conference with me on your essay if need be

SUGGESTIONS FOR YOUR WORK TIME THIS WEEK:
  • Be done with 4 of the sources by the end of class tomorrow
  • Finish the other 4 in class on Wednesday
  • Write most of your written response Wednesday evening-- you'll have ~45 minutes of work time on it before seminar on Thursday
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Friday, Dec. 2nd: Snow Falling on Cedars

12/2/2016

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Today's Objectives:
  • Evaluate two different perspectives on US and Japanese involvement during WW2
  • Get a better understanding of what Japanese Internment camps and WW2 were like for American citizens AND what the societal effects of WW2 and Japanese Internment camps were AFTER the war was over.

Starter: 10 minutes to review your notes, skim back through the readings, and get ready for discussion.
While you are reviewing, have your notebook out for Ashley to check this week's work.  Have it opened to page 14, please!

Class Discussion of Zinn and Schweitzer
  1. Share out your notes on page 14 of your notebook
  2. What was the Atlantic Charter? 
  3. Do you think it is in human nature that once power is established, we want to do whatever we can to hold onto it?  Will governments inevitably be self-serving and corrupt to some extent?  

Watch Snow Falling on Cedars
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Thursday, Dec. 1st: The Road to Japanese Internment Camps

12/1/2016

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Today, you will be working on pages 11-12 in your notebooks to understand the main events and general timeline leading to Internment camps and Fred Korematsu's case.

By the end of class, you'll need to complete pages 11-12 of your notebooks.


Starter 
Scroll through this list of google images of Dr. Seuss's representation of Japanese people.  Look closely at at least 5 of them.  
  1. What stereotypes about Japanese people do you see represented in these images?  Try to name at least three different ones.
  2. What is your reaction to the fact that Dr. Seuss is the author of these cartoons?​

Agenda
Analyze the 
Original Newsreel of Pearl Harbor 
  1. What adjectives does the speaker use to describe the attack and the Japanese?
  2. What adjectives does the speaker use to describe the Americans? 
  3. What would your reaction be to this report in 1941? 

Lecture: Ashley's brief intro to the Nanking massacre inquiry

Work time: Complete pages 11-12.  When you're done, finish reading the Zinn and Schweitzer reading assignment and answer questions on page 14 of your  notebook for tomorrow's discussion.
Here are some resources to help:
  1. This is the handout you'll need for the Nanking massacre inquiry on page 11 of your notebook (it is at the end of the hard copy notebooks I handed out Tuesday).
  2. This is a great summary to help you with the timeline and the summary of Korematsu's case

Read Zinn/Schweitzer for tomorrow's class discussion and complete questions on page 14 of your notebooks for these chapter excerpts!
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Last 15 minutes of class:
Review answers for pages 11-12 and discussion reactions to today's readings/activities.
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