They Called Us Enemy Part II

What does incarceration mean?

• to be in prison

• to have an enemy

• sadness

'Sam felt a great deal of melancholy after learning that his friend was moving away.'

'Melancholy' means...

• great joy

• extreme restlessness

• deep sadness

In which sentence is the word 'foe' used correctly?

• I felt foe after my pet hamster died while I was on vacation.

• I saw a foe by the creek in the northern woods.

• My foe smirked at me after tripping me at lunch.

What does 'internment' mean?

• to be falsely imprisoned due to a lie

• to be imprisoned for political reasons

• to be imprisoned in the mountains

My wily friend grabbed a couple of cookies behind his mom's back for us to have before lunch.

'Wily' means...

• fast

• sneaky

• cool

I ignored the cut I got on my hand while making a salad until it got infected and began to fester.

Fester means...

• for time to speed up or go faster, usually when you're having fun

• for something (usually an infection) to spread and get worse

• to toss a salad a few times so that the oil/vinegar is evenly spread

What did Executive Order 9066 say?

• It said that anyone who was deemed a threat to the U.S. could be evacuated from where they lived. This made it possible for the military to take Japanese Americans to internment camps.

• It declared war on Japan for the bombing of Pearl Harbor. It took revenge on Japanese living in the U.S. by freezing their bank accounts and taking their property.

• It gave the order to drop the atomic bomb on the two cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan to end World War II once and for all. This resulted in over 100 thousand deaths of citizens of Japan.

What was so significant about George Takei's visit to the FDR museum and presidential library?

(more than one answer possible)

• It happened on the anniversary of Executive Order 9066, and he was visiting the museum and the library of the president who gave that order.

• George Takei was of Japanese descent and was speaking at the museum and library of FDR, who gave the order to send Japanese to internment camps.

• George Takei's favorite president was Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and now he could finally see what books his president read and how he lived.

How did George and Henry react differently from their parents when they first got to the internment camp and saw they were going to live in a horse stall?

• George's parents were excited to move away from San Francisco, but the kids felt melancholic because they were leaving their friends behind.

• George and Henry were excited and thought it was an adventure, but their parents felt humiliated and degraded.

• Their parents were outraged and protested the move, while George and Henry tried to calm their parents down.

While George and his family were on the train, why did the guards always pull down the blinds when they got to a town?

• They did not want the townspeople knowing what was happening to the Japanese Americans.

• They were protecting those on the train from the strong lights of the city.

• They didn't want the Japanese Americans to see the town and want to get out.