Message from mkang

[Anonymous]

My students received a grant from the Japan American National Museum. Under the grant, we were granted 2 busses and free entrance to the museum. Our tour started with a history of origami and an origami lesson. Then the students got a lesson and demonstration on Taiko drumming. Some of them were invited to try their hand at Taiko drumming. After these two lessons, they were broken up into small groups and given a tour of the museum by a survivor of the Japanese internment camps. It was especially interesting and meaningful because it was told from this living primary source. Students examined artifacts and documents from World War II. Their guide explained both their historical significance as well as the lessons that must be remembered in our times. After the museum tour, the students walked out to the memorial to Japanese American soldiers and got to meet and talk to two Japanese American World War II veterans.