Process+Guide

1. Read paragraphs 1 and 2. Record as briefly as possible the answers to the 5-W questions: Who? What? Where? When? Why? 2. Imagine that you are a Japanese-American in 1942, and have just learned that your family is to be sent to one of the internment camps. Write five words to describe your feeling. 3. As you read the reminder of the article, jot down your thoughts about these two general questions: a. What was the mood of the country that permitted this to happen? b. What can one person do to change the minds of an entire campus, or town, or country? 4. What more current examples of discrimination came to mind as you read or reflected on this article? 5. What parallel did President Young see between internment of Japanese-Americans and the events leading to U.S. involvement in World War II?