Title: Japanese American Internment Camps
Author: Gail Sakurai
Publisher: Children's Press
Genre: Non-Fiction
Number of Pages: 48 pages
Discovery of Book: Library Catalog
Reading Level: Lexile Level- 980
Awards: Library Media Connection
Summary: Japanese American Internment Camps is a non-fiction book that recaps the start of Japanese American prejudice by Americans with the bombing of Pearl Harbor. It then moves on to explain how Japanese Americans were moved to internment camps, despite their patriotism and innocence. The book finishes up by recapping how the Japanese were released back into society and how the United States began to pay retribution to surviving family members for the strife placed on Japanese American families during World War II.
Personal Connection: Whenever I read something about Japanese American Internment Camps it blows my mind that the United States committed this type of crime against its own citizens. You read about the travesty of the concentration camps in Europe around this time and think about the atrocities that occurred to human life. It amazes me that we did almost the same thing to our citizens, minus the torturous death. We took people from their homes and forced them to live in unpleasant conditions. We then released them back into society without providing them any assistance while being rude and prejudice against them.
Evaluation/Analysis: Japanese American Internment Camps is an excellent resource for Middle Schoolers who need truthful, non-bias information about a time in United States history that is rarely studied in school. This book would be great for a teacher to use to teach research strategies. Students could use this book to skim and scan, looking for important information. Furthermore, students could take notes on important facts that they find, helping to build their case as to whether or not the use of Japanese Internment Camps could be considered a holocaust.
Author: Gail Sakurai
Publisher: Children's Press
Genre: Non-Fiction
Number of Pages: 48 pages
Discovery of Book: Library Catalog
Reading Level: Lexile Level- 980
Awards: Library Media Connection
Summary: Japanese American Internment Camps is a non-fiction book that recaps the start of Japanese American prejudice by Americans with the bombing of Pearl Harbor. It then moves on to explain how Japanese Americans were moved to internment camps, despite their patriotism and innocence. The book finishes up by recapping how the Japanese were released back into society and how the United States began to pay retribution to surviving family members for the strife placed on Japanese American families during World War II.
Personal Connection: Whenever I read something about Japanese American Internment Camps it blows my mind that the United States committed this type of crime against its own citizens. You read about the travesty of the concentration camps in Europe around this time and think about the atrocities that occurred to human life. It amazes me that we did almost the same thing to our citizens, minus the torturous death. We took people from their homes and forced them to live in unpleasant conditions. We then released them back into society without providing them any assistance while being rude and prejudice against them.
Evaluation/Analysis: Japanese American Internment Camps is an excellent resource for Middle Schoolers who need truthful, non-bias information about a time in United States history that is rarely studied in school. This book would be great for a teacher to use to teach research strategies. Students could use this book to skim and scan, looking for important information. Furthermore, students could take notes on important facts that they find, helping to build their case as to whether or not the use of Japanese Internment Camps could be considered a holocaust.
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