Resources for Teachers and Students , week of Dec. 05, 2011 1. A
Day of Infamy December 7, 1941, was a day that then-President
Franklin D. Roosevelt declared “will live in infamy.” At 7:55
a.m., 360 Japanese warplanes attacked Pearl Harbor in Hawaii,
one of America’s largest Naval bases. The attack drew the United
States into World War II, after five of eight battleships, three
destroyers and seven other ships were sunk or severely damaged
and more than 200 aircraft destroyed. A total of 2,400 Americans
died that day and 1,200 more were injured. Three aircraft
carriers were out at sea that day, and six months later exacted
revenge on Japan in the Battle of Midway. Find a newspaper
article about the 70th anniversary of the bombing. Write a
creative narrative in the first person about being at Pearl
Harbor that day, using descriptive language. Core/National
Standard: Writing narratives to develop real or imagined
experiences or events. On December 6, 1933, a U.S. federal judge
issued a ruling that changed a lon