Their Own Island

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Their Own Island

• The Japanese American Community on Bainbridge
  Island, Washington

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Independent Study Project

• Create Professional development materials for
  community program Japanese American Internment
  and Civil Rights
• Includes
• 3 Lesson Plans
• Annotated Reading List

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Independent Study Project

• Each lesson coincides with one of the three
  sessions of the conference
• 1. Childhood Memories of Bainbridge and
  Internment Experience
• 2. 442nd Combat Team and Military Intelligence
  Service
• 3. Civil Rights in America WWII and 9/11

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Lesson 1 Children in the Camps

• Use of primary sources in each lesson
• Bainbridge Review
• Articles written by Walt and Millie Woodward
  (editors/owners)
• Articles written by Paul Ohtaki and other war
  correspondents interned at Manzanar and Minidoka

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Lesson 2 The 442nd and MIS

• Students view oral histories on Denshos website
• Topics of Densho interviews as part of this
  lesson include
• Decision to join/not to join military
• Serving in MIS (in the Pacific)
• Serving in 442nd in Italy and Europe
• Viewpoints of family members of those who
  served/didnt serve
• Also learn about the Loyalty Questionnaire

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Lesson 3 Civil Rights-WWII and 9/11

• Students use political cartoons to look at social
  issues and racism
• Students analyze cartoons for social/cultural
  messages and implications
• Assessment students create their own cartoon
  about a current social issue in the U.S.

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Political Cartoons WWII
 
 
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Political Cartoons Post 9/11
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Community in IslandWoods Curriculum

• How did the emphasis on community help race
  relations on Bainbridge Island during the
• Word War II era?
• Why is IslandWoods focus on community-building
  so essential to its curriculum?