![]() ![]() These resources are focused around Common Core Standards for Grade 6, but they are absolutely still relevant for all middle grades students who are studying this story or historical fiction in general. ![]() The author's description of the empty rooms, stripped of all personal belongings and furniture (where did all these items go?) will certainly remind readers of homes the have loved and left, and the sensory details the author provides about the "barracks" Emi and her family are forced to live in-actually barely refurbished horse stalls, with the lingering odor of the animals, as well as bugs, and dust-go a long way to underscore all that has been lost. This is an extremely thorough, full 2-week unit for the short story ' The Bracelet ' by Yoshiko Uchida. I prefer Baseball Saved Us by Ken Mochizuki, which is for slightly older children. It is informative and accessible (and includes a helpful author's note), but it lacks significant incident. ![]() The Bracelet is a simple text that introduces young students to the internment of Japanese-Americans that occurred during World War II. When Emi loses the bracelet, she discovers that it is not necessary to have objects to remember important people and places they live in one's mind. ![]() camp in Montana because he worked for a Japanese company. Emi's father has already been removed to a P.O.W. War is raging across the sea, and because Japanese-Americans look like the enemy, they are the enemy. Emi, a young Japanese girl in second grade, receives a gold bracelet from her friend just before she, her mother, and her sister leave their home for an internment camp. ![]()
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