Friday, January 29, 2010

Do You Know?

What do you know regarding WWII Japanese Internment Camps?  Have you learned important information in history?  What did you discover when you visited the link that was provided for you in connection with A Farewell To Manzanar?  Please reflect and respond in class today.

19 comments:

AidanC said...

They were to keep japanese after Pearl Harbor

abby bockenkamp said...

i know that at the camps they tried to simulate regular life by having schools, shops, and normal community functions. but they were guarded by army men and barbed wire. the japanise people were put there in fear that they were having connections to japan or the emporer.

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Matt E. said...

I know that there was a camp here in Colorado.

anthony t said...

They made them because the government thought that all the Japanese were against the United States

kenziee said...

what I know is that during WWII, Americans put the Japanese Americans in camps after pearl harbor so that they wouldn't turn against America. I did learn important information in history. My connection to "Farewell to Manzanar" is that perhaps the dad was being taken away to a camp because he is Japenese. But he didn't want that to happen to him which is why he got rid of the material things representing his culture and burned the flag.

Pierce M! said...

I know that when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor we sent all the Japanese-Americans to Interment camps in Wyoming and we also took all their land and never gave it back. The camps were bad with bad food and shelter.

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Tanner W. said...

I know that they where 50% made up of children. The "houses" that they lived in didn't have central heat and they didn't have have pluming. For meals they went to a mass place to eat meals. There were many located across the country.

Alex B said...

The internment camps were difficult for people to live in. There was no furniture except for cots and a stove. I have learned a lot of important information in history. I have learned how difficult it was for people to leave their homes and got to a internment camp. I discovered when i visited the link that when the executive order was passed 110,000 Japanese Americans were forced into internment camps where they lived with no furniture just a cot to sleep on.

Mi Leng said...

well i learned that Japanese people had to live in internment camps because the a Americans didn't want them to be around them and in there country. they thought that they would do something. yes i have learned something because they are talking about them and how they lived. its very interesting about how they were to live away from the Americans.

MichaelL said...

I know that when we were fighting the Japanese in the Phillipenes we surrendered and they made us walk sixty five miles to a Japanese internment camp.

BrittanyJ said...

In history i learned that the Internment Camps were camps that Japanese-Americans were put in while the United States were in the war. They were put into the camps because the American military was afraid that the Japanese Americans were making connections with the Emperor of Japan and helping them plan their attack, so while World War II was going on they put the Japanese into Internment camps. I think that that's one of the most important information about this historical event

KymS said...

I only know what I have learned in history class so far. I know that they were forbidden to teach the Japanese language and that they were held in 20x25 foot rooms for a family of six. They were taken away from their homes. They could get out only on certain conditions.

meganl said...

In 8th grade my teacher mention that after pearl harbor was bombed, Japanese people were put into camps. Earlier this week in my History class, we spent a whole day in class talking about how people who came from Japan to America and there second generation were put into what they called relocation camps. I believe that this was a bad idea and the United State were panicking and didnt think through this idea throughly.

wildernessexploror121 said...

The U.S. out all the Japanese-Americans in camps ofter Pearl Harbor so that they couldn't turn against or harm America

alexc said...

i know that this happened durring WW2 and it was because the US thought all of the Japanese people would help Japan out in the war. My connetction to "Farewell to Manzanar" is that half of the people in the internment camps were kids like Jeanne.

Peyton M. said...

I know during world war 2 thatafter pearl harbor was bombed and the japanese tried many other attacks on America they were then put into ghettos where they were put there because they wanted to make sure the japanese didn't turn and do another attack on them, I actually just started learning about this in history last week, but... I connect with the book because the father is "missing" and i know that useually when people were "missing" during world war 2 and they were japanese, that they were taken to these ghettos

LindsayS said...

I know that The Japanese Internment Camps were very deadly. Almost all the people went into them, did not survive to come out. I also know that most of this happened right after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.