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Against Their Will: Japanese Relocation Camps.

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Murphey, Carol – Social Studies Review, 1992

Discusses a process used for teaching about the Japanese relocation camps of World War II. Suggests methods for helping students to understand the events being studied: (1) link the event to students' lives; (2) provide background for understanding; (3) analyze the event; and (4) apply the concept-transfer. Includes a letter as a primary source…

Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, History Instruction, Japanese Americans, Primary Sources

A Picture Tells a Thousand Words: Photographs of Women Work, and the 1940s.

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Bonfield, Lynn; Lewis, Karen – Social Studies Review, 1989

Presents an essay and several photographs describing the experiences of U.S. women in the 1940s. Suggests that wartime employment greatly impacted the role of women in society. Describes ways to help students learn how to interpret a photograph and provides questions for classroom discussions. (DB)

Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Employed Women, Females, History Instruction