Resources

** Sites **: [|A More Perfect Union] This site explores a period of American history when racial prejudice and fear upset the delicate balance between rights of citizens versus the power of the state. [|Japanese American Legacy Project] The portion of the project used in this wiki is "In the Shadow of My Country: A Japanese American Artist Remembers. This section includes causes of the incarceration, timeline, as well as personal accounts of those who were victims of the relocation. [|Link to video on Pilgrimage to Manzanar] This is a link to a video of a 2008 pilgrimage of 100 American Muslims who visited a Japanese Internment camp used in 1942 and about the friendships that developed between the Muslims and the members who had been detained at the camp. The video cannot be embedded but can be shared.  [|Children of the Camp] PBS documentary that explains the emotional and psychological consequences of the WWII internment camp experience for those who were children [|What it Means to be an American] Lesson plan on race and the media in times of Crisis [|Teaching unit on book, Farewell to Manzinar z] Provides strategies for teaching unit on Japanese Internment camps
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** Cool Tools **: [|crocodoc] an online annotation tool that allows you to comment, draw and highlight text or pictures [|wallwishers] Allows for a virtual class discussion on a given topic where all responses are viewed on one screen. [|wordle] may be used a pre- or post reading strategy; can also be used to view word usage in a writing piece [|glogster] Used to create 21st century virtual posters which allows the use of graphics, video and sound [|bubl.us] Outlining and brainstorming tool [|mindmono] great tool for outlining or brainstorming which supports the use of pictures and video clips [|mind24] a collaborative based on line mapping tool that supports attaching images as well as links [|vocabulary.com] a search engine which provides definitions, parts of speech, vocabulary lists, word associations and word histories [|Image detective] [|Image detective] used to build student's skills to analyze visuals [|Easybib] On line tool to create bibliography entries for different types of sources [|noodletools] This link is great for narrowing down your search and to record bibliographic material