Culminating Writing Task Prompt This story explains how Japanese Americans were discriminated against after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in World War II. Describe this discrimination. Then choose three characters from the story and describe how this discrimination impacted their lives and how they responded. Teacher Instructions Students identify their writing task from the prompt provided. Students complete an evidence chart as a pre-writing activity. Teachers should guide students in gathering and using any relevant notes they compiled while reading and answering the text-dependent questions earlier. Some students will need a good deal of help gathering this evidence, especially when this process is new and/or the text is challenging! Evidence Page Elaboration / explanation of how this evidence Quote or paraphrase number supports ideas or argument It was April 21, 1942. The United States and Japan A blanket evacuation of all Japanese was not fair. were at war, and every Japanese person on the 150 West Coast was being evacuated by the government to a concentration camp. The Government had come to pick up Papa and Family units were separated .Even though some of hundreds of other Japanese community 151 these people were “community leaders”, they leaders…The government thought that they were were still thought of as dangerous. The father was dangerous enemy aliens.’ He was “interned in a taken away forcing the family the mother Mama to prisoner-of-war camp in Montana because he had take care of the children alone and to deal with the worked for a Japanese business firm .” evacuation without him. “We had been instructed to take only what we The families were forced to leave most of their could carry into camp …Mama had told us we 151 possessions behind. Keiko’s question to her
Culminating Writing Task Prompt This story explains how Japanese Americans were discriminated against after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in World War II. Describe this discrimination. Then choose three characters from the story and describe how this discrimination impacted their lives and how they responded. Teacher Instructions Students identify their writing task from the prompt provided. Students complete an evidence chart as a pre-writing activity. Teachers should guide students in gathering and using any relevant notes they compiled while reading and answering the text-dependent questions earlier. Some students will need a good deal of help gathering this evidence, especially when this process is new and/or the text is challenging! Evidence Quote or paraphrase Page number Elaboration / explanation of how this evidence supports ideas or argument It was April 21, 1942. The United States and Japan were at war, and every Japanese person on the West Coast was being evacuated by the government to a concentration camp. 150 A blanket evacuation of all Japanese was not fair. The Government had come to pick up Papa and hundreds of other Japanese community leaders…The government thought that they were dangerous enemy aliens.’ He was “interned in a prisoner-of-war camp in Montana because he had worked for a Japanese business firm .” 151 Family units were separated .Even though some of these people were “community leaders”, they were still thought of as dangerous. The father was taken away forcing the family the mother Mama to take care of the children alone and to deal with the evacuation without him. “We had been instructed to take only what we could carry into camp …Mama had told us we 151 The families were forced to leave most of their possessions behind. Keiko’s question to her
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