Families of Japanese ancestry awaiting the arrival of a train that will take them to Merced detention center, during the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II

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Media and Strategies for Teaching Farewell to Manzanar

Find the teaching strategies, media, and online resources referenced throughout the Teaching Farewell To Manzanar guide.

Published: January 10, 2018

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Language

English — US

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English & Language Arts
History
Social Studies

Grade

6–12

Human & Civil Rights
Racism

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This page is designed for educators using Teaching Farewell to Manzanar. It contains all of the digital resources referenced throughout the guide.

This collection contains all of the resources used in Teaching Farewell to Manzanar, which includes:

2 videos
2 readings
6 teaching strategies
Additional recommended resources

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Teaching Strategy

Develop a classroom contract to create a community of mutual respect and inclusion.

Two students discussing and looking at a paper

Teaching Strategy

Educators will create a practice of student journaling to help their students critically examine their surroundings and make informed judgments.

Teaching Strategy

Assess students’ understanding, monitor their questions, or gather feedback on your teaching by having them turn in exit cards.

Teaching Strategy

Invite students to nonverbally communicate something they have read or watched, using a color, a symbol, and an image.

Teaching Strategy

Have students move around the classroom to explore a range of documents, images, or student work.

Students adding post-it notes to a white board.

Teaching Strategy

Use this graphic tool to help students consider the many factors that shape their own identity and that of groups, nations, and historical and literary figures.

A drawing of a girl with her name Serena Bialkin at the top and characteristics written around her

Reading

Explore bystander behavior and the challenges of speaking up with Maurice Ogden's poem “The Hangman.”

Passengers aboard the St. Louis, seeking refugee from Nazi-occupied Europe, wait to find out if they will be allowed entry into Cuba in June 1939.

Video

This history of Japanese American incarceration during World War II is retold in this documentary from Abby Ginzberg and Ken Schneider. It also follows Japanese American activists today as they speak out against the Muslim registry and travel ban.

Unit

Help students understand that their voices are integral to the story of the United States with six lesson plans that investigate individual and national identity.

An illustrated collage of silhouettes in bright colors.

Collection

Explore the digital version of our core resource on the Holocaust. Find classroom-ready readings, primary sources, and short documentary films that support a study of the Holocaust through the lens of human behavior.

Video

This clip is a video adaptation of the illustrated book, The Bear That Wasn’t.

Reading

Explore identity, conformity, and authority with this modern fable about a bear forced to navigate society's perception of who he is.

An illustration from Fred Tashlin's The Bear That Wasn't.

Collection

Enrich your teaching of To Kill a Mockingbird with this set of videos, photographs, and readings that will help students contextualize the novel.

Lesson

Students explore the strategies, risks, and historical significance of the 1963 Chicago school boycott, while also considering bigger-picture questions about social progress.

Crowd fills LaSalle Street between City Hall and building housing Board of Education as hundreds of demonstrators marched in Chicago on Oct. 22, 1963 following a one-day boycott of public schools.

Mini-Lesson

This mini-lesson helps students define the term, learn what forms reparations can take, and consider what reparations should be offered for slavery and other racist policies.

Lesson

Students consider what it means to be free by learning about the choices and aspirations of freedpeople immediately after Emancipation.

Black students standing outside in front of a clapboard school house

Mini-Lesson

This mini-lesson invites students to synthesize their learning about the causes of racial injustice in policing and reflect on the implications these causes have on the individual and collective choices we make today.

Black and white image of time for change protestor.

Mini-Lesson

This mini-lesson prepares students to engage in conversations about policing and racial injustice by inviting them to co-create class norms and reflect on the emotions and experiences they and their classmates bring.

Photo of students seated in a classroom.

Lesson

Students learn about the aftermath of the Civil War and examine primary source documents that provide insight into the difficult task of reuniting the nation.

The ruins of Mills House and nearby buildings, Charleston, South Carolina, at end of American Civil War.

Lesson

Students examine President Andrew Johnson's plan for Reconstruction and the debate it provoked with Congress while reflecting on deeper issues of healing and justice.

Columbia with black union soldier with amputated leg in ornate Greco-Roman style building

Lesson

Students learn about the debate within the women’s rights movement over the passage of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments.

Five black women officers sitting for a portrait

Lesson

Students explore some of the limitations of Reconstruction's transformation on US democracy and learn about groups who demanded that the promise of equality be made a reality.

Seated portrait of women's voting rights advocate Susan B. Anthony.

Lesson

Students examine documents that shed light on life in the South under the policies of Presidential Reconstruction in 1865 and 1866.

Photo shows a group of six African American men and women posed picking cotton in a field.

Lesson

Students learn about the responses to Johnson’s policies by Republicans in Congress and examine the fourteenth amendment that overturned Presidential Reconstruction.

Photo of page 1 of the 14th amendment of the US Constitution

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Creating a Society That Ensures Safety for All

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The Devastation of War

Healing and Justice

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Exit Cards

Color, Symbol, Image

Gallery Walk

Defining Identity and Justice

Identity Charts

The Hangman

And Then They Came for Us

Re-Entry

My Part of the Story: Exploring Identity in the United States

Holocaust and Human Behavior

The Bear That Wasn't

The Bear That Wasn't

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Teaching Mockingbird Media and Readings

10 Questions for the Past: The 1963 Chicago Public Schools Boycott

The Debate over Reparations for Racial Injustice

Enacting Freedom

Creating a Society That Ensures Safety for All

Preparing for a Conversation about Policing and Racial Injustice

The Devastation of War

Healing and Justice

The Struggle over Women’s Rights

Equality for All

The Union As It Was

Radical Reconstruction and the Birth of Civil Rights

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