Informational: Japanese Internment in America Answers

How does the medium of Interview with Marielle Tsukamoto affect the structure of the main ideas and supporting sentences?

Identify the interviewer(s) in Interview with Marielle Tsukamoto.

How do you evaluate what a speaker says?

Identify the interviewee(s) in Interview with Marielle Tsukamoto.

Read the excerpt below from Interview with Marielle Tsukamoto and answer the question that follows. I want people to know that she was a great teacher who loved her family and her country. She had the courage to speak out and do something about the injustice. She worked hard to pass redress. When a group of people feel they have been treated unfairly by the government, the US Constitution guarantees you the right to redress the government. The Japanese Americans did that and because the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 was passed by Congress, our constitution is strong again. It was weakened by Executive Order 9066 when President Roosevelt ordered 120,000 innocent Japanese Americans into internment camps. Mary Tsukamoto always took the initiative to follow her beliefs. She was a respected author (she wrote the book, We the People, a Story of Internment in America), a political activist and someone who worked for world peace. She was selected by the California State Senate as a Notable Californian. What is the general topic that the paragraph concerns?

Read the excerpt below from Interview with Marielle Tsukamoto and answer the question that follows. I want people to know that she was a great teacher who loved her family and her country. She had the courage to speak out and do something about the injustice. She worked hard to pass redress. When a group of people feel they have been treated unfairly by the government, the US Constitution guarantees you the right to redress the government. The Japanese Americans did that and because the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 was passed by Congress, our constitution is strong again. It was weakened by Executive Order 9066 when President Roosevelt ordered 120,000 innocent Japanese Americans into internment camps. Mary Tsukamoto always took the initiative to follow her beliefs. She was a respected author (she wrote the book, We the People, a Story of Internment in America), a political activist and someone who worked for world peace. She was selected by the California State Senate as a Notable Californian. What is the structure or medium of the work from which the paragraph is excerpted?

How do you find the central idea?

Read the questions below from Interview with Marielle Tsukamoto and answer the question that follows. Question: How long did your family spend in an internment camp? Question: What is one thing you would like everyone to know about Japanese American internment? Question: What was a typical day like for you in the camps? Question: What do you remember about having to leave your home in Florin, California? Question: What were the saddest memories you remember? Question: What were some of the happy moments you remember? Question: What would you like us to know about your mother? What was the interviewers’ purpose?

How do we discover the purpose of the interviewers in Interview with Marielle Tsukamoto?

Read the excerpt below from Interview with Marielle Tsukamoto and answer the question that follows. Question: What were the saddest memories you remember? Answer: I think the saddest memory is the day we had to leave our farm. I know my mother and father were worried. They did not know what would happen to us. We had no idea where we would be sent. People were all crying and many families were upset. Some believed we would not be treated well, and maybe killed. There were many disturbing rumors. Everyone was easily upset and there were many arguments. It was a horrible experience for all of us, the old people like my grandparents, my parents and children like me. We were all innocent. The government had no real reason to send us into these camps. There were racists who did not want the Japanese to own land and begin to prosper. Racism, prejudice, greed, and lack of political leadership caused the evacuation and internment. Which statement best describes Tsukamoto’s response to the question?