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This photo was taken by Dorothea Lange and may be found in the Library of Congress. It was cropped from the original photo which you can find at the Museum of California. http://picturethis.museumca.org/pictures/grocery-store-chinatown-oakland-california  If time permits, have students look at both photos and consider Lange's point of view using the questions and additional information provided in the exhibit, Picture This. http://picturethis.museumca.org/looking-telling-picturing-history-internment.

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Dorothea Lange photographed 1st graders at Raphael Weill Public School in San Francisco in April 1942, days before these children were relocated. Known for iconic images during the Great Depression, Lange was hired by the War Relocation Authority (WRA) to document the forced relocation of Japanese Americans.

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Born free and equal, photographs of the loyal Japanese-Americans at Manzanar Relocation Center, Inyo County, California, by Ansel Adams.

This photograph taken by Ansel Adams and included in his book, Born Free and Equal was of an unnamed woman living at the Manzanar Internment Camp.  The caption under the photograph reads "Americanism is a matter of the mind and heart."  It is numbered page 59 in the original printing of the book.

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This photo was taken by Ansel Adams and appears in his book,  Born Free and Equal, a selection of Ansel Adams's photographs of the Manzanar internment camp which was published in 1944 by U.S. Camera along with a text by Adams. The digital images were made from the 112-page copy held by the Prints and Photographs Division.

"Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar, contains photographs taken by noted photographer Ansel Adams documenting life at the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California. In addition to documenting life within the internment camps, this collection also allows viewers to study Adams' darkroom techniques and how they shaped the pictures that he created. A special addition to this collection is the text of the book "Born Free and Equal" which provides a collection of the Manzanar images as well as text describing the experience of the Japanese Americans held there.

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Toyo Miyatake, Manzanar War Relocation Center (CA), 1943. Toyo

Miyatake was one of more than 10,000 Japanese Americans

interned at Manzanar during World War II. 

*Copyright Toyo Miyatake Studios. Linked here with

permission.

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This image was taken by Toyo Miyatake, Manzanar War Relocation Center (CA), 1943. Toyo.  Miyatake was one of more than 10,000 Japanese Americans

interned at Manzanar during World War II.

*Copyright Toyo Miyatake Studios. Linked here with

permission.

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Between 1942 and 1945, thousands of Japanese Americans were, regardless of U.S. citizenship, required to evacuate their homes and businesses and move to remote war relocation and internment camps run by the U.S. Government. This proved to be an extremely trying experience for many of those who lived in the camps, and to this day remains a controversial topic.

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Here is a one page, step-by-step outline of the QFT process for the facilitator or teacher.

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This is a student worksheet for the QFT process from the Right Question Institute. It can be used by individuals or small groups of students.

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This is the graphic model for the QFT+TPS Mashup.  Educators familiar with the Observe-Reflect-Question sequence of the TPS Analysis Tool will notice that the sequence in this model has flipped and expanded.  There are now six steps. In the top tier, the sequence flipped to Observe-Question-Reflect. In the bottom tier Corroborate and Keyword Searching were added and Reflect was repeated.  We realized as we worked to merge the two models that we used the cognitive skill of reflections  repeatedly and that we used it for making inferences and for meta-cognition or thinking about thinking.  

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This webpage found at the Library of Congress in the Teachers Page section lists and provides links to the LOC/TPS Analysis Tool  You will find an online interactive version that students may use to record their observations, reflections, and questions about a primary source.  Once completed the form may be downloaded, emailed, or printed. You will also find a pdf form that you may print for paper and pencil analysis.  The teacher guides include customized question prompts for different primary source formats including photos, maps, newspapers, manuscripts, cartoons and notated music. These question prompts have been included in the online interactive version of the analysis tool mentioned above.  A student can select the format such as photo and then a series of question prompts will appear to guide their thinking.

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This is a blog from the Library of Congress T by Wendi A. Maloney, writer-editor in the United States Copyright Office.) Maloney describes both Adams and Miyatake and their documentation of one of the darkest chapters in our nations's history, the Japanese American Internment.

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This exhibit features women who worked for the U.S. Government during WWII on the Home Front. chosen because of the strength and variety of their collections in the Library of Congress. Like their colleagues, the women followed various paths to their wartime assignments. One of the essays describes the work of Dorothea Lange who ws assigned to photograph life at Manzanar.  

Like Esther Bubley, Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) documented the change on the homefront, especially among ethnic groups and workers uprooted by the war. Three months after Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt ordered the relocation of Japanese-Americans into armed camps in the West. Soon after, the War Relocation Authority hired Lange to photograph Japanese neighborhoods, processing centers, and camp facilities.

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This is an NPR recording that examines the Japanese American Internment through the lens of three photographers, Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange and Toyo Miyatake.

It is a fascinating secondary source for students to use for historical context as they look at the primary source photographs taken by these three photographers. 

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A Lesson Plan using this image as a Q-Focus was created by Sarah Westbrook and can be accessed at this address: https://padlet.com/sarahwestbrook1/Group5