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Lesson 5: Seen and Unseen
50 min
California CCSS: Focus Standards
California CCSS: Supporting Standards
ELD Standards
Student Lesson
Lesson 5: Seen and Unseen
Student Learning Objectives
1
Foundations
Students will identify roots and analyze how known roots combine to create words with inferable meanings.
2
Content
Students will read an illustrated nonfiction description of the events leading to Japanese American incarceration and discuss how the author and illustrator offer a specific perspective on these events.
3
Language
Students will summarize key events and explain their impact by using sequencing language, academic explanation verbs, and time/place phrases, while referencing both text and illustrations.
4
Foundations
Students will identify roots and analyze how known roots combine to create words with inferable meanings.
Essential Question
How do historical records—texts, images, and testimony—shape what is remembered about the past?
Connections to
Knowledge-Building:
Students will learn how the US entry into World War II led to the incarceration of Japanese Americans in 1942 and understand the sudden nature and traumatic effects of the incarceration policy.
Enduring Understanding:
People shape civic memory through storytelling.
Future Lessons:
In Lesson 6, students will contrast the perspective of the text’s author with the official narrative that was promulgated at the time. Then, in Lesson 7, students will begin analyzing what they have read in light of the Essential Question.
Unit Performance Task:
Seen and Unseen shows how visual tools such as photographs can aid the task of witnessing a historic event.
Lesson Pacing
| Lesson Flow | Purpose of Learning Experience |
|---|---|
Launch5 Minutes | Students will engage in a Turn-and-Talk discussion reflecting on what they have learned about Japanese American incarceration so far and what they expect to learn in upcoming lessons. |
Literacy Lab10 Minutes | Students will be introduced to three new vocabulary words relevant to the anchor text using morpheme instruction. |
Learning in Action30 Minutes | Part A: Identify Purpose (RI.7.6) Students will engage with the first pages of the text through annotation and discussion. They will connect the writing and illustrations to the author’s and illustrator’s purpose and position. Part B: Compare Media (RI.7.7) Students will compare the text in Seen and Unseen with previously encountered media about Japanese American incarceration. |
Vocabulary
Vocabulary Addressed in Lesson
- contraband:
- items that are brought somewhere despite being banned
Additional Vocabulary
- Issei:
- first-generation Japanese immigrants; people who emigrated from Japan
- Nisei
- second-generation Japanese immigrants; people whose parents emigrated from Japan
Routines
- Turn-and-Talk
- Morphology & Vocabulary
- Check for Understanding
Lesson Sequence
Lesson Texts
Short-Form Text
Instructions to All Persons of Japanese Ancestry and Glossary of Terms
National Parks Service
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