Lessons for Teaching about the Internment Experience
Elementary
Secondary
- In Response to Executive Order 9066 – From Elk Grove USD Technology Services and the Sacramento Educational Cable Consortium. Lesson invites students to create a letter poem to commemorate a first-hand account from our TOR WWII archives. Although the lesson is aligned to 8th grade CCSS, it is appropriate for and adaptable to older students.
- Japanese American Internment – From Stanford University’s Reading Like a Historian curriculum
- A Date that Will Live in Infamy – From the National Archives’ Teaching with Documents series
- I’m American Too – I’m American Now – From Elk Grove USD Technology Services and the Sacramento Educational Cable Consortium. Lesson invites students to compare and contrast interviews from WWII and the Vietnam War.
- American Justice on Trial – A problem-based lesson that revolves around a preparing for and holding a mock trial
- What Happens When You Look Like the Enemy – One of a number of excellent lessons and resources from the Densho Project.
- Voices of Japanese-American Internees – From the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), lesson taps into the Pyramid of Hate and introduces students to the Civil Liberties Act of 1988
- PBS Learning Media/The Fred T. Korematsu Institute – Lesson Plans – These standards-aligned lesson plans on the WWII Japanese American incarceration explore topics including Japanese American resistance to the incarceration and the U.S. government’s use of misleading language and euphemisms. Each lesson plan integrates a documentary film clip and includes background information, focus questions, objectives, historical thinking skills, detailed activities, and supplementary materials.
