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Changing Perspectives on the Japanese Internment Experience

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Students explore the issue of Japanese-American internment. In this World War II instructional activity, students analyze historical biases regarding Japanese-American internment as they analyze literature, research print and Internet sources, and complete a project that requires them to create a product that explores the issue from their selected perspectives.

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japanese-american internment, internment camps, japanese-american history, world war ii

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9th - 12th
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Social Studies & History
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