Message from Clay Dube

[clay dube]

Steve --

Please share some of the internment-related websites with our crew via the discussion board.

Since our focus here is on Asia, it might be useful to also discuss Asia-US contacts, since that is part of the 5th grade standards (Perry missions to Japan, the amazing exchange between New England and China that started just as America was becoming a nation).

One site that I think you could use with 5th grade kids, at least you can use the idea and images, concerns the gifts that were exchanged by the US and Japan at the time of the Perry expedition (1853-4). Take a look at http://blackshipsandsamurai.com/ and check out the "gifts," "portraits" and other sections for some ideas.

We brought Shigeru Miyagawa, one of the MIT prof. who created the site to LA for a session with our teacher affiliates last November. It was excellent. He also has a great cd-rom for introducing students to ideas about ethnicity and identity. Learn more at http://www.starfestival.com
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