We Are All Americans
We Are All Americans
Free Online Workshop for Middle and Secondary Teachers of History and the Humanities
Presenters
- Karen Matsumoto
- Grace Morizawa
- Clarence Moriwaki
- Frank Abe
- Stan Pesick
Description
In the 1940’s, young people of Japanese ancestry faced a deep moral dilemma—the decision of whether or not to serve in the US military while their families were incarcerated in concentration camps by the U.S. government without due process. In the workshop, We Are All Americans, we will address the compelling question: How did the experience of being forcibly removed from their homes and incarcerated affect the choices made by people of Japanese ancestry as they responded to the government’s call for loyalty and service? Why did some individuals believe civil rights should be restored before service, while others were committed to proving themselves to gain back civil rights?
Wednesday, July 15 to Friday, July 17, 2020
Three 2 ½ hour live, interactive on-line sessions
Free clock hours & stipend
This online interactive workshop explores our topic through examination of primary source documents, case studies, images, and secondary sources in the We Are All Americans curriculum.
We Are All Americans is a place-based curriculum workshop. Subject matter is being customized to address the unique teaching opportunities in specific regions. This is the Seattle-based workshop.
The workshop will explore the WWII Japanese American experience through the stories of real people in Washington State, with a focus on Bainbridge Island, the first community to be rounded up and sent to concentration camp after Executive Order 9066. Documentary film will be used as a catalyst for open-ended inquiry about the Japanese experience in Washington State. All participants will be able to access streaming rights through their ESDs to four films by Stourwater Pictures that will be introduced in the workshop to use with your social studies curriculum:
The Red Pines
Fumiko Hayashida: The Woman Behind the Symbol
My Friends Behind Barbed Wire
Home from the Eastern Sea
There will also be live presentations on the Bainbridge Island experience, Let it Not Happen Again: Lessons of the Japanese American Exclusion by Humanities Washington speaker, Clarence Moriwaki, as well as the seldom told story of the camp resisters to the incarceration, or "No-No Boys" by filmaker and author, Frank Abe. Frank recently won an American Book Award for "John Okada" The Life & Rediscovered Work of the Author of No-No Boy" and directed the award-winning PBS documentary, "Conscience and the Constitution. Clarence is the president of the Bainbridge Island Japanese American Community, and recipient of the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas Award for his work on the Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial. Both speakers will provide human, historical accounts of this national tragedy, and will ask the question: Are there parallels to what’s happening in the United States now?
Learn more at https://www.njahs.org/we-are-all-americans
Applications will be accepted at: https://www.njahs.org/we-are-all-americans-application
Dates
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Wed, July 15 20209:00 AM - 11:30 AMOnline
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Thu, July 16 20209:00 AM - 11:30 AMOnline
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Fri, July 17 20209:00 AM - 11:30 AMOnline
Registration
Event # 105427
- Price
- $0.00
- Registration Ends
- Wednesday Jul 15, 2020 11:30 PM
Professional Hours
Clock Hour Number: SPE00767.50 | Clock Hours |