Who?What?When?Where?Why?

Executive Order 9066

• “I [Franklin D. Roosevelt] hereby authorize and direct the Secretary of War…to prescribe military areas…from which any or all persons may be excluded, and with respect to which, the right of any person to enter, remain in, or leave shall be subject to whatever restrictions the Secretary of War or the appropriate Military Commander may impose in his discretion.”

- February 24, 1942

Think AloudWhose powers did President Roosevelt’s

Executive Order 9066 greatly expand?

What tragic event had happened just a few months earlier? (hint: December 7, 1941)

What new powers did this person have?

Why might it be dangerous to give one person or a small group of people those powers?

The Effects of Executive Order 9066

Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson created “Military Zones” (concentration camps) for the “relocation” (imprisonment) of “potential threats” (Japanese Americans).

More than 120,000 Japanese Americans were removed from their homes and confined in camps in Arkansas, Arizona, New Mexico and California.

No other group in the United States was targeted as a “potential threat.”

Many young Japanese American men were fighting for US Armed Forces while their families were imprisoned.

Although the camps were declared unconstitutional in 1944, some were not officially closed until 1945.

Haiku

• Poetic form developed in Japan• Contains 17 syllables arranged in three lines

with five syllables in the first, seven in the second and five in the third line (5-7-5).

• Free verse Haiku: three lines without ordered syllables.

• Like a snapshot, the Haiku attempts to capture the essence of a moment.

• It offers a specific impression or feeling.

Manzanar

“Potential Threats”

Lingering summer heat-Japanese proceeding under guardon dusty white road

In the sage brushtwo new earth moundstorrid wind blows

Want to be with childrenplaying in waterof irrigation ditch

Being arrested—at home peony budstill firm

Frosty morninghanded a hatchettoday I became a woodcutter

On certain daysheart is full of hypocrisyflowers of gobo are purple

Even the croaking of frogscomes from outside the barbed wire fencethis is our life.

Why write poetry? Why write Haiku?

During times of tragedy and oppression, why do people often turn to poetry as a form of expression?