Tuesday, November 19th

Objective:

• Compare the perspectives of second-generation immigrants as portrayed in Through Our Eyes to the perspective of Hatsue
  
• Use critical and historical thinking skills to analyze primary and secondary source documents in order to make an informed claim on our historical inquiry driving question:  What was life like in Japanese Internment Camps? Prisons or Temporary Inconveniences?
  

Starter

• Watch the trailer to Through Our Eyes
  
• Summarize the perspective of these Filipino-Canadians.  What challenge(s) or experience(s) do they have in forming their personal identity?
• How does this relate to the SFoC?
  
• Take this survey for the Board (We want student input for a meeting with the Board)

Agenda
1. Discuss the starter and read aloud/analyze pages 200-203 in SFoC

• What is Hatsue’s mother’s perspective? What are her hopes and expectations for her daughter?
  
• How does Hatsue’s response on page 203 reflect a more American response and how does her mom ever-so subtly point that out? 
  
• Why does Hatsue feel regret about this response?
  

2. Historical Inquiry work time

• FIRST: Practice close reading with the Minidoka Irrigator source (document #3)
• Read the first paragraph: "Martial Law was declared in the Manzanar relocation center last Sunday night as a result of mob uprisings led by pro-axis sympathizers in which one Japanese was killed and nine others wounded, according to a UP report yesterday"
• Close Reading: What is the bias of this article as indicated by the first paragraph?
  
• Reading the silences: What effect does the use of passive voice have here?

• What additional evidence would you need to determine if this is bias or fact?