Teaching Japanese American Incarceration Through Comics & Graphic Novels

Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

Subject Area

English Language Arts
Social Studies

Grade(s)

6

Overview

In this learning activity, students will gather information about personal experiences of survivors of Japanese-American internment camps during World War II. Students communicate the information they learn by creating their own comic to retell the story of the survivors. Resource links to videos, journals, articles, comic book template and artwork are included in the material. 

Social Studies (2010) Grade(s): 6

SS10.6.7

Identify changes on the American home front during World War II.

UP:SS10.6.7

Vocabulary

  • internment camp
  • rationing
  • Birmingham steel industry
  • Port of Mobile
  • Tuskegee Airmen
  • retooling

Knowledge

Students know:
  • The types of rationing that occurred in the United States during WWII.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Cite evidence to support changes on the home front using primary and secondary sources.
  • Evaluate the contributions of significant individuals and/or groups in the US during WWII.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Many changes occurred in the United States during WWII.

CR Resource Type

Learning Activity

Resource Provider

Smithsonian

License Type

Custom
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