"He said people needed something to do in Camp. We weren’t in a camp that was fun, like summer camp. Ours was in the middle of nowhere, and we were behind a barbed-wire fence."

Content Area Connections:

Language Arts:  Exploring identity, names, and storytelling
Social Studies: Immigration, refugee experiences, cultural identity, global connections
Social Emotional Learning (SEL): Empathy, resilience, self-advocacy, and valuing diversity
Art: Visual representation of personal names and cultural symbols

Primary Source Connection: 

• Collection of Photographs from the Library of Congress that highlights life in Manzanar Relocation Center in California - https://www.loc.gov/collections/ansel-adams-manzanar/about-this-collection/
• Collection of photographs from Topaz Relocation Center in Utah - https://topazmuseum.org/topaz-history/camp-site-photos/

Other Books: 

• Write to Me: Letters from Japanese American Children to the Librarian They Left Behind by Cynthia Grady (Pk-6th)
• My Lost Freedom: A Japanese American WW2 Story by George Takei (1st-6th)
• The Children of Topaz
• Seen and Unseen
• My Lost Freedom
• Love Grows Here