Using Historical Footage (Middle School) Central Question What is the film’s argument and how is it made?
What was the relocation and internment like for Americans of Japanese descent? Abstract This example includes materials for helping middle school students understand the necessity of sourcing and asking questions of nonfiction film. “The Japanese Relocation” was produced by the Office of War Information in 1942 to explain and defend Japanese internment to the American public. Additional primary sources complicate and challenge the film’s portrayal of the event, and reiterate the necessity of sourcing historical accounts. Film Clip: Japanese Relocation. Partial Transcript [opening narration]: Historical Thinking Focus: Sourcing, Closely reading film Essay About This Topic On December 7, 1941, Japan bombed the Pearl Harbor military base in Hawaii, killing more than 2,000 U.S. military personnel. The war against Japan brought to the surface fears about people of Japanese ancestry living in the United States. About this Clip J.L.
Beyond the Bubble. First Shots of War - American Memory Timeline- Classroom Presentation. For some months, people in the colonies had been gathering arms and powder and had been training to fight the British, if necessary, at a moment's notice.
The Continental Congress had approved of preparations for defensive fighting, in case the British made an aggressive move. But General Thomas Gage, commander of British troops in Boston, had been cautious. He thought his army too small to act without reinforcements. On the other hand, his officers disdained the colonists as fighters, thinking they would flee with any show of British force. Gage received orders to arrest Sam Adams and John Hancock, rumored to be near Lexington. When British regulars (known as redcoats because of their uniform jackets) arrived at Lexington the next morning, they found several dozen minutemen waiting for them on the town's common. Whatever the truth of who fired the first shot, the patriots were first to get their version of the events out to the American public.
Historypin. America's History in the Making — Home. CBI - Consensus Building Institute. Workable Peace is an innovative secondary school curriculum, teaching, and learning project that integrates the study of intergroup conflict and the development of crucial civic and social skills into social studies and humanities classes.
Workable Peace provides teachers with academically rigorous training on teaching history and intergroup conflict, and provides extensive curriculum materials and resources. Using a unique combination of content and skill activities, Workable Peace enables students to learn about conflict in ways that enliven the imagination, awaken moral reasoning, and impart social and civic skills that they can use throughout their lives. A decade in development and classroom testing, Workable Peace was developed by the Consensus Building Institute (CBI) and the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. The Workable Peace Curriculum Units consist of a series of seven curriculum guides for secondary schools and youth programs. Clients and Partners. Linois History Fair. Another Side of History. UH - Digital History.
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