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  • December 21, 2011 at 2:57 am #21003
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    Mcovarrubias this is a great idea for WWII. In my U.S. history class I would take your idea and also include excerpts and pictures provided from the National Center for the Preservation of Democracy for the gallery walk. The center focuses on WWII and the experience of those who chose to fight for the US. Each visitor to the center is given a short biography of an individual who joined the military forces during WWII and you follow this person's fate as you explore the center. The center does a superb job in including perspectives of different ethnic groups from Mexican Americans, Japanese Americans, American Indians, to Asian American women. I highly recommend people who want to include personal narratives of people who fought in WWII to look at the center's website for information. The center also work closely with the Japanese American Museum in Little Tokyo.

    January 1, 2012 at 5:21 am #21004
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    I really loved hearing about this book of WWII fighters for the Japanese. I prescribe some journal entries of holocaust victims, world war ii fighters from the us, and world war ii fighters from germany, but i have been looking for something else to add to the lesson. this will be perfect!

    January 1, 2012 at 5:21 am #3598
    Rob_Hugo@PortNW
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    I would use excerpts from the diaries of Samuel Yamashita’s book, Leaves from an Autumn of Emergencies: Selections from the Wartime Diaries of Ordinary Japanese, with his permission of course in a gallery walk. I would post excerpts from different diaries on big white papers and have my students go around the room and either write a comment or ask a question for each one. We would then have a class discussion about what the students learned about lives of ordinary Japanese people during World War II. I could also pair this lesson with a scene from the film Letters from Iwo Jima in order to show World War II from the point of view of a Japanese soldier.

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