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Letters from the Japanese American Internment

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Students explore the concept of Japanese internment. In this Japanese internment lesson, students examine primary sources that enable them to discover what internment camp life was like and its implications, Students write their own accounts of what life in the interment camps was like and comment on the civil liberties of Japanese-Americans.

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civil rights, human rights, civics, japanese-american internment, internment camps, japanese-american history, world war ii

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civil liberties, japanese american internment, world war ii, english language arts
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Grade
6th - 8th
Subjects
English Language Arts
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For Teacher Use
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2 days
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