Informational: Japanese Internment in America Answers

How do you evaluate what a speaker says?

How do we discover the purpose of the interviewers in Interview with Marielle Tsukamoto?

How do you find the central idea?

Read the excerpt below from Interview with Marielle Tsukamoto and answer the question that follows. Question: How long did your family spend in an internment camp? Answer: We were sent from Florin, California, to a temporary facility at the Fresno County fairgrounds for 6 months beginning in May of 1942. From there our family along with others from California were sent to Jerome, [Arkansas]. We were never at Topaz. The US government set up 10 internment camps in various locations in the United States. These camps were located in desolate, unpopulated places throughout the continental states. The government did not want the people of the United States to know much about the internment of 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry. What was the interviewee’s purpose?

Read the excerpt below from Interview with Marielle Tsukamoto and answer the question that follows. I want people to know that she was a great teacher who loved her family and her country. She had the courage to speak out and do something about the injustice. She worked hard to pass redress. When a group of people feel they have been treated unfairly by the government, the US Constitution guarantees you the right to redress the government. The Japanese Americans did that and because the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 was passed by Congress, our constitution is strong again. It was weakened by Executive Order 9066 when President Roosevelt ordered 120,000 innocent Japanese Americans into internment camps. Mary Tsukamoto always took the initiative to follow her beliefs. She was a respected author (she wrote the book, We the People, a Story of Internment in America), a political activist and someone who worked for world peace. She was selected by the California State Senate as a Notable Californian. What is the general topic that the paragraph concerns?

What is one definition of the central or main idea?

Identify the interviewee(s) in Interview with Marielle Tsukamoto.

Read the questions below from Interview with Marielle Tsukamoto and answer the question that follows. Question: How long did your family spend in an internment camp? Question: What is one thing you would like everyone to know about Japanese American internment? Question: What was a typical day like for you in the camps? Question: What do you remember about having to leave your home in Florin, California? Question: What were the saddest memories you remember? Question: What were some of the happy moments you remember? Question: What would you like us to know about your mother? What was the interviewers’ purpose?

Identify the interviewer(s) in Interview with Marielle Tsukamoto.

Read the excerpt below from Interview with Marielle Tsukamoto and answer the question that follows. I want people to know that she was a great teacher who loved her family and her country. She had the courage to speak out and do something about the injustice. She worked hard to pass redress. When a group of people feel they have been treated unfairly by the government, the US Constitution guarantees you the right to redress the government. The Japanese Americans did that and because the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 was passed by Congress, our constitution is strong again. It was weakened by Executive Order 9066 when President Roosevelt ordered 120,000 innocent Japanese Americans into internment camps. Mary Tsukamoto always took the initiative to follow her beliefs. She was a respected author (she wrote the book, We the People, a Story of Internment in America), a political activist and someone who worked for world peace. She was selected by the California State Senate as a Notable Californian. What should you examine to find the main idea in the paragraph?