The term “concentration camp” often conjures images of far-away places like Auschwitz-Birkenau and Treblinka, but what about camps in the United States? Seven-year-old Jeanne Wakatsuki and her family are held in the Manzanar internment camp—with 10,000 other Japanese-Americans—following the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941. Thirty years later, Jeanne delivers a powerful first-person account that reveals her search for the meaning of her experiences at Manzanar. Farewell to Manzanar has become a curriculum staple in schools across the country.
With this Farewell to Manzanar Response Journal, you’ll have an amazing selection of writing prompts for every chapter in the book right at your fingertips.
Help your students form and express their own opinions with these personal writing prompts and essay topics.
This Response Journal will help you:
- prepare dozens of fun, ready-made journal topics that students will love;
- start every day with a quick reading response activity;
- give your students the perfect opportunity to develop good grammar habits.
Great teachers help their students focus on writing. With Prestwick House’s Response Journals, your students will:
- Learn to develop their own unique writing voice;
- Become confident in voicing their opinions;
- Build a personal connection to literature.
This is the reproducible booklet version of this Response Journal.
For the PDF downloadable version, click here.