1940s+Speech

1940s Issues - English 7
 * Rosa Parks Middle School Media Center **
 * //Voices from the Past//** Common Task: Research a social or historical issue related to a change initiated by World War II. Take a stand on that issue and outline your reasons. Write an essay persuading the reader to agree with your position on the issue.
 * The purpose of this research guide is to assit you in starting from the most general resources, for instance Encyclopedia Britannica, and then moving onto resources that have more specific information. When you are searching the general sources, jot down key words or key events so that you can use these terms later in other types of reference materials.**

** Information Literacy Skills: **

 * ** Students will demonstrate the ability to locate and use information resources, equipment and other technologies effectively and efficiently. **
 * ** Students will demonstrate the ability to review, evaluate and select media. **
 * ** Students will demonstrate the ability to learn and apply reading, research and critical thinking skills to organize, and synthesize information in order to communicate new understanding. **
 * ** Students will cite the sources they used to gather information for this project. **



** is a research strategy designed to assist students as they seek answers to research based problems. The acronym, AGOPP, represents the five steps students would use to implement this strategy successfully. Any or all of the steps can be completed by individuals or by groups. **
 * // AGOPP Research Process //**


 * A …..Ask Questions **
 * G …..Gather Information **
 * O …..Organize Information **
 * P …..Prepare/Produce Information **
 * P …..Present Information **
 * Identify your research problem or question. **
 * Read about the issue. **
 * Analyze the problem and develop questions. **


 * 1) **Analyze background knowledge--what do you already know and what do you need to find out?**
 * 2) **Analyze the problem and develop/refine questions.**

Topics:

 * Was the U.S. justified in dropping the atom bomb on Japan?
 * Was the U.S. justified in sending Japanese Americans to internment camps?
 * Should women serve in combat?
 * Should the U.S. have a draft in war time?
 * Should the Enola Gay be displayed in the new Air and Space Museum?
 * Gather keywords bases on questions. **
 * Choose the best source of information (books, internet and periodicals).Search for the information. **
 * Record notes and bibliographic information. **


 * **Decide which sources are best for your topic.**
 * **Identify key words and phrases.**
 * **Determine which resources will provide background information and which resources will provide more specific information with supporting details.**
 * **Use text features to identify essential information from text.**
 * **Skim and scan for information that answers your question.**
 * **Verify the "worthiness" of the information.**
 * **Record relevant information--summarize and paraphrase--avoid plagiarism.**
 * **Record bibliographic information.**

**Online Subscription Databases (See Edline for the list of passwords & logins for home use)**
--Keyword search: --First, click on **1940s** icon on top bar. --Then, click on **Manhattan Project** on left side. || Student Resource Center --Keyword search: --Subject search: **Japanese Americans, Evacuation and Relocation** || SIRS Decades --First, click on **1940s** icon on top of bar. --Then, click on **Japanese-American Interment** on left side || Student Resource Center --keyword search: Keyword: **Women in Military** (see article titled: "Update: Women in the Military) || Student Resource Center Update: **Women in Combat** (Click on magazine tab & scroll to "Examining the Pros and Cons..." || --Subject search: **draft** || Issues and Controversies Keyword: **Military Draft** ||  || --Subject search: **Enola Gay** (See article titled: "Enola Gay goes on exhibit..." also article titled, "Turbulance as Public Meets Enola Gay." ||   || Student Resource Center --Keyword search: //**For Passwords to the databases for home use, see Edline under Media Center and open the Word Document.**//
 * ** Research Questions ** |||||| **Resources and Search Hints** ||
 * Was the U.S. justified in dropping the atom bomb on Japan? || SIRS Discoverer
 * atomic bomb** || SIRS Decades
 * Hiroshima** AND **Nagasaki** ||
 * Was the U.S. justified in sending Japanese Americans to internment camps? || SIRS Discoverer
 * Japanese American Intermment** ||
 * Should women serve in combat? ||  || Issues and Controversies
 * Should the U.S. have a draft in war time? || SIRS Discoverer
 * Should the Enola Gay be displayed in the new Air and Space Museum? || SIRS Discoverer
 * Enola Gay** (see articles: "Let Enola Gay exhibit speak truthfully," "The Enola Gay, On View," "Spreading Its Wings." ||

Internet Sites
//**Was the U.S. justified in dropping the atomic bombs on Japan?** // ** Newseum: USA Weekend: Hiroshima ** (View this webpage if you would like to watch a short historical video of this event)

** Hiroshima & Nagasaki 60 Years Later **

**University of California, Los Angeles: Children of the Atomic Bomb **

** Pro and Con on Dropping the Bomb **


 * Testimony of Mamoru Yukihiro **

** Hiroshima: A Survivor's Story **


 * Akihiro Takahashi’s story **

** The Atomic Option **

** The Decision To Drop the Bomb **

** Hiroshima: Was It Necessary? **

** Hiroshima: Who Disagreed with the Atomic Bombing? **

** Harry S. Truman Diary,July 25th, 1945 **

** The First Atomic Blast--1945 **

** Documents on the Decision to Use the Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki **

//**<span style="background-color: #d6ebfb; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 2px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px;">Should Japanese-Americans have been forced into internment camps during WWII? **//

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px;">** NPR: Impounded: Dorothea Lange's Photographs of Japanese Internment **

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px;">** World War II: American Home Front: Japanese Americans: The War at Home **

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px;">** JARDA: Japanese American Relocation Digital Archives **

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px;">** The 442nd Regimental Combat Team **

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px;">** The Virtual Museum of San Francisco Japanese Americans **

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px;">** Japanese American National Museum: Dear Miss Breed: Letters from Camp **

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px;">** UW Libraries: Relocation of Japanese Americans **


 * Digital stories about American History ** (click on Japanese-American Internment (WWII) and watch the movie)

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">** Explorations: Japanese-American Internment **

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px;">** The War Relocation Authority and the Incarceration of Japanese-Americans During WWII **

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px;">** Exploring the Japanese American Internment Through Films and the Internet **

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px;">** Japanese Relocation During World War II: U.S. National Archives **

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px;">** Japanese Americans and the U.S. Constitution **

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px;">** Japanese American Internment: Removal of Japanese and Japanese Americans During WWII **

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px;">** Instructions to all people of Japanese Ancestry **

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px;">** World War II Japanese Internment Camps in the USA **

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px;">** Children of the Camps: Internment History **

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px;">** Conscience and the Constitution: the Story **


 * <span style="color: #0066cc; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Japanese Internment Camps and Their Effects **

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px;">** Confinement and Ethnicity: An Overview of World War II Japanese American Relocation Sites **

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px;">** Ansel Adams's Photographs of Manzanar **

//<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="subhead style21" style="background-color: #d6ebfb; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 2px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px;">**Should women in the military be allowed to engage in combat?** // <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">** Women’s Auxiliary Corps Video ** (View video for background)

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">** Library of Congress: Women at War: Stories from the Veterans History Project **


 * <span style="color: #0066cc; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">The Women's Army Corps: A Commemoration of World War II Service **


 * <span style="color: #0066cc; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Women in World War II **

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">** Women in Combat: Frequently Asked Questions **

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">** Women in the Military: Combat Roles Considered **

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">** Women in Land Combat **

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">** Panel Votes to Ban Women From Combat **

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">** Pentagon Wants Women In Combat **

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">** They Shoot Women Don't They? **

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px;">** Women's Combat Role on Front Burner **

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">** Report Leans toward Women in Combat **

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px;">** A Woman's Place Is Not In Combat **

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">** New Veterans Among Us: Women **

//<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="subhead style21" style="background-color: #d6ebfb; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 2px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px;">**Should the U.S. have a draft in war time?** //


 * Conscientious Objectors**

//<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="subhead style21" style="background-color: #d6ebfb; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 2px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px;">**Should the Enola Gay be displayed in the new Air and Space Museum?** //
 * The Enola Gay and the Smithsonian Chronology of the Controversry**

//<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="subhead style21" style="background-color: #d6ebfb; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 2px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px;">**General Websites on WWII Topics** //


 * The Price of Freedom: Americans at War **
 * Click on World War II. Click begin and then click, “Enter Exhibit.” For each section,**
 * Scroll you mouse over the pictures at the bottom to see a slide show on that topic which includes information captions.**

Summarize your findings. Draw conclusions and inferences. Use a graphical organizer or note cards to arrange the information.

Use **Noodletools** for your Works Cited page and Electronic Note Cards.


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 * When citing from a print book source, use the citation template distributed in class or print it from this document: [|2010 Bibliographic Cite wksh book revised.docx]




 * ** Select the most important information ** **.**
 * ** Prepare and rehearse your speech!! **
 * //** Prepare a "Works Cited" page. **//

Present the product to your audience. Evaluate your process and product.


 * //According to Write for College, "Plagiarism is the presentation of another writer's ideas or words as if they were your own, without acknowledging the source" (297).//**

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