April 6, 2015 -- Monday
平成二十七年四月六日　－－　月曜日


ウオーム・アップ
はるやすみ　に　何　を　しました　か。
三つ　の　ぶんしょ　を　書いて　下さい。
Be sure to hand in at end of class


Announcement:
Students who missed the test on Friday, March 27th, must make it up after school this week.  The deadline is Friday, April 10th.


Come See the Paradise -- 3rd installment


     Back in L.A. after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese American community leaders have been arrested, including Papa Kawamura.  Jack, out of jail on probation, comes to L.A. to see Lily and they are re-united.
     But things are getting bad.  A store Santa won't let Minae sit on his lap, saying, "Read the sign. No Japs."  Jack explodes in rage and is thrown out of the store.  Japanese American businesses are attacked.  Along with all the other Japanese Americans, the family has to pack up, burn, or try to see everything in six days.  They lose everything other than the contents of the two suitcases they are allowed to take with them.  Lily, Minae, and the rest of the family are put on trains and sent to Santa Anita Racetrack, where they have to sleep in the horse stalls.  Jack says he will find them and join them later.  However, they are bussed to a re-location center in the desert.
     Jack finds out that he has been drafted and so will not be permitted to return to Los Angeles.  He gets sent to basic training, where he has to practice bayonetting racist pictures representing Japanese people.  In the camp, the Japanese Americans live a very basic lifestyle in barracks.  People eat bad food in mess halls; children study in improvised schools; youths play baseball in the dust.  Some adults, young men especially, rebel, and there are riots where the population is subdued with tear gas.  Papa Kawamura arrives at the camp but sadly is rejected by other Japanese Americans (including his own son, Charlie) who believe that he is a traitor to the community.  Wearing a military uniform, Jack arrives during a riot.  He is on 24-hour leave from the Army.


Vocabulary:
へび　　　Snake
うさぎ　　　Rabbit
か　　　　Mosquito
すずめ　　Sparrow
天皇陛下万歳　てんのう　へいか　ばんざい　”May His Imperial Majesty Live 10,000 Years"
大和魂　やまと　だましい　　”The Spirit/Soul of Japan”
Santa Anita Racetrack
Japanese American Citizens' League


宿題　しゅくだい　Homework:
There will be a 2-page "reader-response" type of paper due after we have finished seeing the film, "Come See the Paradise."　More soon.