🧍 CHARACTERS
🏚️ LIFE AT MANZANAR
🇺🇸 HISTORICAL CONTEXT
💭 THEMES & IDEAS
📖 KEY EVENTS
100

The author and narrator of the memoir.

Who are Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston?

100

Families lived in these simple buildings.

What are barracks?

100

The event that triggered fear and internment.

What was the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor?

100

Unfair treatment based on race or ethnicity.

 What is discrimination?

100

Woody was welcomed and treated kindly. 

What was visiting Papa's Aunt Toyo and family? 

200

This character struggles between loyalty to Japan and America.

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Who is Papa (Ko Wakatsuki)?

200

Frequent storms filled the camp with this.

What is dust/sand?

200

The order that allowed forced relocation.

What is Executive Order 9066?

200

 Jeanne struggles to understand this about herself.

What is identity?

200

Jeanne revisits Manzanar as an adult.

What is her return and reflection?

300

Character who remains steady & practical.

Who is Mama? 

300

 Eating here weakened family bonds.

What is the mess hall?

300

The war during which internment occurred.

What is World War II?

300

Papa loses this important personal quality.

 What is pride/dignity?

300

The freed internees return to their communities to discover their homes had been destroyed and their possessions stolen. 

Some were assaulted. 

What is racism? What are hate crimes? 
400

Jeanne’s brother who serves in the U.S. Army.

Who is Woody?

400

Early camp life lacked this basic necessity, causing embarrassment.

What is privacy?

400

The U.S. feared Japanese Americans might do this. (The main reason for their interment)

What is spy or commit sabotage?

400

The clash between Japanese heritage and American identity.


What is cultural conflict?

400

Jeanne joins this activity to fit in.

What is baton twirling/majorettes?

500

Character who had the courage to stand up to Papa. 

Who is Kiyo?

500

This event had the Mess Hall bells ringing for more than 24 hours. 

What is the December Riot? 

500

Japanese Americans born in the U.S. were this.

What are the Neise?

500

At her new school, Jeanne read aloud in class for the first time. A girl in Jeanne's class commented that she didn't know Jeanne could speak English. 

What is subtel racism? 

500

Jeanne was not allowed to join the Girl Scouts troop that her friend, Radine, belonged to. 

What is racism?