LESSON PLAN OUTLINE

Pearl Harbor

OVERVIEW

This lesson is about CITIZENSHIP. Specifically, this lesson is about the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 and how this event made many United States citizens critically think about the question:

What does it mean to have your citizenship taken away?

LESSON OBJECTIVES

After finishing this lesson, students will be able to:

  • Describe the major facts about the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
  • Analyze the effects of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, specifically on Japanese Americans living in Hawaii.
  • Explain the concept of citizenship in their own words.
  • Evaluate primary source historical information.
  • Determine the impact of the environment, community, and family on people's sense of citizenship.

Duration: TBD

RESOURCES - ORAL HISTORY CLIPS

First-hand recollections of the attack on Pearl Harbor

Daniel Inouye
Daniel Inouye		 Ed Ichiyama
Ed Ichiyama		 Edward Kanaya
Edward Kanaya

Feelings of internal conflict

Dick Hamada
Dick Hamada		 Edward Kanaya
Edward Kanaya		 Masato Doi
Masato Doi

Incidents of discrimination

Stanley Akita
Stanley Akita		 Daniel Inouye
Daniel Inouye		 Fred Ida
Fred Ida

Effects on military personnel

Kunio Fujimoto
Kunio Fujimoto		 Dick Hamada
Dick Hamada		  

GROUP ACTIVITY

One idea is to have students create a Web 2.0 multimedia story/presentation about citizenship and Pearl Harbor (e.g., Animoto music video). Good list of Web 2.0 tools here: http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/StoryTools

Another idea: Have student dyads create a documentary movie about citizenship and Pearl Harbor using oral history clips, historic footage, and present day news clips using http://www.remixamerica.org.

(Please suggest some other possible ideas!)

ASSESSMENT

(Please suggest some possible ideas!)

Please email your ideas to randy@goforbroke.org.