Click here to watch a video on the issue. Here is a link to Google Images that deal with the Japanese Internment.
Your objective is to write two pieces that give your perspective on this event we read about.
The first piece you are to write is from the perspective of a student in Grade 6, a student whose friend (a Japanese-American) was forced to leave your neighbourhood and sent to a camp.
The second piece is be written from the standpoint of an upstanding member of the community (a teacher, doctor, police officer etc.) who is outraged by this discriminatory policy.
Your focus here should be on the differing styles of each writer.
Think back to what we talked about in class about how, and why, people write differently.
Your two pieces can be letters to senators (a kind of politician), an article in a newspaper (including a school newsletter), or even a poster denouncing the policy.
Your only guide to how long each piece will be two questions:
Your only guide to how long each piece will be two questions:
- Does you piece accurately capture the style of your writer?
- Does your piece adequately explain the perspective of your writer?
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