Group 1 (Women/econ) Group 3 (civil rights)
Alexandria Jacob
Kristin Charles
Erin E Rachel
Hiba Megan
Group 2 (Social) Group 4 (Riots)
Zach Matt
Eric Nathaniel
Madison Tabitha
Jelena Hannah
Lindsey
Group 5 (Internment Camps)
Michael
Nicholas
Amanda
Erin O
Assignment
Your assignment is to put yourself in the mind of the character given to you. Picture how they would have felt during the scenario your group is placed in. Discuss with other members of your group, and collectively write a journal entry, expressing all view points. Pick a speaker for your group that will share your journal entry to the rest of the class.
You are a stay at home mom raising 2 kids while your husband is overseas. You promote war bonds.
You are just entering the work force for the first time and eager to show that you can do any job a man can do.
You just lost your husband in the war. What do you do now?
You are a farmers wife. Your husband just paid off your mortgage, you cant decide whether to join the work force or just promote war bonds.
You are a soldier that is still overseas fighting for your family back home.
You are a soldier that just came back and is benefiting from the GI Bill.
You are a nurse taking care of soldiers that could die.
You are recently married and just sent your husband overseas after only 3 days of being married.
You entered the work force to try to support your family.
You are veteran but everyone thought you were a draft dodger.
You are an African American male trying to live a normal life but gets mixed up in the riots that occurred in Detriot.
You are a mother living in the middle of the Detroit riots and witnessed it all.
You moved to an overcrowded city so you and your husband could find better jobs
You are a soldier that started a fight with a Mexican American
You were beat up by a mob in Los Angeles.
You were a mother of one of the Mexicans severely beaten.
You were a by-stander on the streets watching the riot begin and play out.
You were a Japanese man trying to enlist in the US army but denied.
You were expelled from your homeland.
You had to move your family to the internment camp.
You fought against the government system to right the wrong they did.
WWII-HomeFront
Lesson Objectives:
1.) Students will get an understanding about what life was like in America during the war.
2.) Students will learn how to put themselves in the shoes of others
3.) Students will learn to look at a situation from multiple perspectives.
Assessments:
The journal entry that the students will share at the end of class will be the assessment.
Start of lesson:
Maybe show a clip or play a song that will get the students to start thinking about WWII and the home front.
Teacher Activity:
The teacher will make the station posters, divide the class up into five groups. The teacher will also prepare questions to help further the student understanding of the assignment. The teacher will create the roles each student will play and create the journal assignment. The teacher is also to put together notes for the students.
Student Activity:
The student will look at the background information and then place themselves in the roles that are assigned to them. The student will also work with their group to write a journal entry that will be shared with the class.
Closure:
Recap and discuss what the students bring up and highlight any important aspects of the section that the student might not have picked up on.
Material and resources:
Five posters
Role for each student
Questions for the students
Assigned Groups
Assignment decription
Reflection
Home Front of WWII Notes
Unemployment fell to 1.2%.
Farmers were able to pay off their mortgages.
Over 6 million women entered work force.
Women took advantage of job opening to show they could do the same jobs as men.
African Americans left the South for the North.
Women had to adjust to being a single mother while the men were overseas.
Many people rushed into marriage.
GI Bill of Rights passed in 1944.
7.8 million veterans attended college.
James Farmer founded an interracial organization called Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) in 1942.
1943 Detroit riot broke out along the Detroit River.
Raged for three days.
President Roosevelt sent federal troops to restore order.
9 whites and 25 blacks died.
Summer of 1943, Los Angeles broke out in Anti-Mexican “zoot-suit” riots.
Zoot-suit was a dress style: long jacket, pleated pants, and a broad-brimmed hat.
Riots lasted almost a week.
February 19, 1942 President Roosevelt signed an order to remove people of Japanese ancestry.
110,000 Japanese Americans were shipped to internment camps.
Many Japanese Americans tried to enlist in the armed forces but were denied.
Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) pushed for the government to compensate those sent to camps.