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Grades: 10, 11, 123 Classes
At the end of the Second World War Canada engaged in the shameful act of trying to expel more than 10,000 Canadians of Japanese descent. Using a thinly veiled excuse that these Canadians had revoked their right to remain in Canada by signing a government form, Canada sought to remove as many Japanese Canadians as possible in early 1946. More than two-thirds of them were Canadian born or naturalized citizens, many of whom had never even travelled to Japan. In this lesson, students will learn about the government’s decision to encourage Japanese Canadians to move to Japan. Students will explore the rationale behind the policy, the tactics employed, and the experiences of Japanese Canadians pressured to leave the country.
- Big Ideas:
- Internment
- Subject:
- Social Studies, Language Arts, Social Justice
- Lesson Components:
- 2
- Languages:
- English, French
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Grades: 8, 9, 10, 11, 12Three 1 – 1.5 hour lessons
Patterns of Injustice is a three-lesson unit examining the importance of Japanese Canadian history and focusing on three Big Ideas: racism, resistance, and rebuilding. Big Ideas from the BC grade 6, 10, and 12 Social Studies curricula will be addressed and students will also explore curricular personal and social core competencies, defined as “the set of abilities that relate to students’ identity in the world, both as individuals and as members of their community and society.”
- Big Ideas:
- Internment
- Subject:
- Social Studies, Social Justice
- Lesson Components:
- 3
- Languages:
- English
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Grades: 5, 6, 7, 8, 910 Classes
During the 1940s, Canada displaced and dispossessed thousands of Japanese Canadians on racial grounds. They lost their homes, farms, and businesses, as well as personal, family, and communal possessions. This lesson plan uses the internment and dispossession of Japanese Canadians as a way to help students learn about the world by seeking answers to big questions about fairness, community, home and belonging.
- Big Ideas:
- Internment
- Subject:
- Social Studies, Social Justice, Law
- Lesson Components:
- 9
- Languages:
- French, English
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Grades: 9, 104 Classes
Designed in collaboration with the City of Richmond Archives as part of a Community Field Experience project, this resource focuses on the treatment of Japanese Canadians before, during, and after World War II. Copies and re-creations of archival records, along with materials designed specifically for classroom use, work together to illustrate the experiences of Japanese Canadians in Steveston, allowing students to explore the topic of Japanese Canadian internment in a local context.
- Big Ideas:
- Internment
- Subject:
- Social Studies, Social Justice, Law
- Lesson Components:
- 2
- Languages:
- French, English
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Grades: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12Optional
This lesson illuminates some of the ways in which Japanese Canadians resisted systemic racism in the form of incarceration, internment, uprooting, loss of home and property, and numerous other injustices, during and after World War II. The lesson package provides background information to prepare teachers before discussing with students the Canadian government’s incarceration of Japanese Canadians.
- Big Ideas:
- Internment
- Subject:
- Social Studies, Language Arts, Social Justice
- Lesson Components:
- 11
- Languages:
- English, French
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Grades: 10, 11, 12180 minutes
In this series of lessons, students explore the impact of internment on the lives of Japanese Canadians through the lens of Japanese Canadian high school graduates. Students examine school yearbooks from 1941 through 1943, select a graduate to research, and then explore the impacts of forced removal, internment, loss of homes and businesses, resettlement, and expulsion.
- Big Ideas:
- Internment
- Subject:
- Social Studies, Social Justice
- Lesson Components:
- 9
- Languages:
- English, French
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Grades: 10, 11, 12180 Minutes
Students confront the human impacts of uprooting, internment, dispossession, displacement, and deportation. The federal government sold Japanese Canadians’ homes, businesses, and personal property and forced families to use the proceeds to support themselves during the internment.
- Big Ideas:
- Internment
- Subject:
- Social Studies, Social Justice
- Lesson Components:
- 7
- Languages:
- English
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Grades: 10, 11, 125 Classes
Created for the BC Ministry of Education’s Socials Studies 10 curriculum, this five-lesson set based on the Nikkei Centre’s publication Karizumai: A Guide to Japanese Internment Sites is intended to help students understand the Japanese Canadian experience before, during, and after World War II, to ensure that the injustices done to Japanese Canadians will not be repeated.
- Big Ideas:
- Internment
- Subject:
- Social Studies, Social Justice
- Lesson Components:
- 5
- Languages:
- English, French