Transcript Farewell to Manzanar Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James Houston

Farewell to Manzanar
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston &
James Houston
7th Grade Language Arts
Chapters 1-3 (pp. 2-20)
• Issei:
• Nisei:
Japanese immigrants to the U.S.
children of Japanese immigrants
born in the United States
• Sansei:
3rd generation of Japanese
ancestry born during or after
World War II
• internment (11): the act of confining someone
into a prison or camp
• cubicle (17): a small space or compartment
within a larger room
Chapters 1-3 (pp. 2-20)
• canneries (3): factories where foods are canned
• saboteur (5): a person who tries to purposely
cause destruction or problems
• migrant (8): a person who moves from place to
place to get work
• patriarch (11): the male leader of a family
• hostility (12): unfriendliness or opposition
against a person or group
Chapters 4-6 (pp.21-45)
• tangible (29):
• reservoir (29):
• astounded (31):
• firebreaks (33):
• flourish (36):
able to be touched
an area used to collect and
store large amounts of water
amazed
a strip of land cleared to
prevent the spread of a fire
dramatic words or actions
Chapters 4-6 (pp. 21-45)
• desolate (25):
• barracks (27):
• shrine (32):
• industrial (37):
• magistrate (37):
barren; without life
a group of building for
housing large groups of
soldiers/people
a place or building
considered holy
having the ability to massproduce items in a factory
a judge
Chapters 7-11 (pp. 46-70)
• inu (51):
• deliberately (51):
• lynch mob (57):
• renounce (57):
• repatriation (67):
an insult meaning “dog”
done on purpose
a group of people who want
to physically kill (hang) a
person without a trial
to give back or give up
to send a person back to
his/her own country
Chapters 7-11 (pp. 46-70)
• informers (51):
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people who give information
to authorities; by some called
“snitches”
ghastly (54):
shockingly frightful or
dreadful
festered (56):
spread like a disease; infected
black market (56): selling items in an illegal way
samisen (69):
a Japanese three-stringed
guitar-like instrument
Chapters 12-14 (pp. 73-93)
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Manzanar (73):
despair (77):
stark (79):
coax (85):
martyr (87):
apple orchard (Span.)
the loss of hope
harsh; desolate
to persuade
a person who would die
rather than give up his/her
beliefs
Chapters 12-14 (pp. 73-93)
• resentment (76):
• sustenance (75):
• oriental (77):
• Obon (84):
• relentless (90):
feeling insulted or angry
because of an action or
remark of another
anything that helps sustain life
Asian (or eastern)
Japanese festival honoring
dead ancestors
not giving up; not ending
Chapters 15-17 (pp.94-109)
• concealed (96):
• curfew (97):
• bias (97):
• propaganda (98):
• ominous (99):
hidden
a set, enforced time when
people are to be indoors at
home
favoring one group or idea
over another; prejudice
information or ideas
presented in order to help or
harm the reputation of
another group or country
threatening; the sense that
something bad will happen
Chapters 15-17 (pp.94-109)
• Tule Lake (95):
(“too-lee”)
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one of the other nine
internment camps where the
potential “trouble-makers”
were sent
taut (103):
tightly pulled or stretched
assimilate (99):
to take on the customs of
others
cringe (100):
to shrink or draw back in fear
Quonset hut (105): a semi-circular shaped, metal
building used as army
barracks or for storage
Chapters 18-20 (pp. 110-130)
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bleak (118):
benevolent (122):
guileless (123):
intangible (126):
aristocrat (130):
cold, piercing, depressing
kind; desiring to help others
honest; sincere
unable to be touched
a noble; a person who is
considered the most elegant
or stylish
Chapters 18-20 (pp. 110-130)
• buoyed (114):
• Okie (117):
floated; kept afloat
a person from Oklahoma who
migrated to another state
looking for work
• indefinitely (117): without knowing the ending
time
• yearned (123):
strongly desired
• acquiescence (123):a lack of objecting or
disagreement; to give in to
Chapters 21-22 (pp. 131-156)
• assented (132):
• malice (133):
• ultimatum (138):
• pilgrimage (151):
• deterred (156):
agreed or concurred
the desire to harm or cause
suffering to others
a demand or threat that, if
ignored, will result in the
cutting off of relations or use
of force
a journey made to a special
place for a spiritual reason
prevented; stopped
Chapters 21-22 (pp. 131-156)
• thwart (133):
• coronation (138):
• defiance (152):
• laden (155):
• coma (156):
to prevent from
accomplishing a goal
the ceremony of crowning of
a person
a bold resistance to authority
loaded down; burdened
a long time when a person is
unconscious