How war Undermined Japanese Americans’ Freedoms
- Consider the Japanese-American internment during WWII and how war undermined basic freedoms for Japanese Americans. Two thirds were native-born citizens. In February 1942, FDR issued Executive Order 9066 to order the relocation of all persons of Japanese descent. 110,000 Japanese-Americans, men women and children left their homes to live in large relocation camps behind barbed wire fences and armed guards.
- Explore this website to understand more about the internment experience. https://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/active_learning/explorations/japanese_internment/internment_experience.cfm
- Examine 15 to 20 images, read 15 to 20 interviews or letters and make a note of the documents pertaining to the Internment of the Japanese people during World War II.
- Construct an essay that considers the Japanese experience.
Make sure you have a thesis statement. This is an argument, your point for writing the paper.
When you have completed the essay please read the following AND
include a statement that you have indeed read it with the submission.
Check if you can answer “yes” to each of the following:
Title
Do I have a title? ( A good one engages the reader’s interest)
Introduction:
- Do I have a thesis statement?
- Is this thesis statement a single sentence that clearly articulates my argument at the end of the introductory paragraph?
- Do I ground my thesis in historical context?
- Body of the Paper:
- Do I use my thesis to drive the material in the body of my paper ?
- Do I write topic sentences?
- Do I present and analyze evidence?
- Do I show an understanding of the material?
- Do I utilize specific references rather than generalizations?
- Does my conclusion encapsulate my argument?
- Is my paper free from grammatical errors and typos?
- Have I cited my material according to the Chicago Manual of Style?