US History · Week 23 · The Great Depression and World War II
Japanese American Incarceration
Students examine the forced removal of Japanese Americans, Korematsu v. United States, and the 1988 apology and redress, and consider what a sincere apology requires.
- Students will
- Students examine the forced removal of Japanese Americans, Korematsu v. United States, and the 1988 apology and redress, and explain constitutional issues and what a sincere apology requires.
- SEL skill
- Identify the parts of a sincere apology and how they rebuild trust
- What it looks like
- Students practice what repair requires: acknowledging harm, making amends, and rebuilding trust.
- Content focus
- Japanese American incarceration
- Format
- Collaborative analysis
Relationship skills
Relationship skills are the abilities to communicate, listen, cooperate, and repair trust so relationships stay healthy, even after conflict. More relationship skills activities
What you get
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Standards
- 11.7.5: CA History Social Science Content Standard, Grade 11: United States History and Geography: Continuity and Change in the Twentieth Century (standard 11.7, item 5)
- CA HSS Analysis Skill: HREP3 Evaluate major debates among historians about alternative interpretations of the past. (Historical Research, Evidence, and Point of View)
- C3 Framework (national): D2.Civ.12.9-12 Analyze how people use and challenge laws to address a variety of public issues.
- Literacy in history: RH.11-12.8 Assess the extent to which the reasoning and evidence in a text support the author's claims.
Fits these textbook chapters
- American History: Reconstruction to the Present, Module 11: World War II
- History Alive! Pursuing American Ideals, Chapter 34: Origins of World War II
- History Alive! Pursuing American Ideals, Chapter 35: The Impact of World War II on Americans
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More relationship skills activities for US History
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- Rebuilding After the Civil War Relationship skillsStudents learn how freedpeople rebuilt families, founded schools and churches, and voted during Reconstruction and consider what real repair after deep harm requires.
- Progressives Take Action Relationship skillsStudents learn how Progressives, including Hiram Johnson in California, won reforms such as the initiative, referendum, and recall and plan how a group can improve their school.
- Letter From Birmingham Jail Relationship skillsStudents analyze how Martin Luther King Jr. answered his critics with reason and restraint and practice responding to criticism without losing their temper.
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