Takaki Chapter 10

A belated post, but in Takaki Chapter 10, he discusses the Japanese immigration experience. A lesson I would devise for my students would be to have them read Takaki and then complete a worksheet that details the path Japanese immigrants took and the numbers of immigrants involved in the migration. The worksheet would detail the path the Japanese immigrants took from Japan, to Hawaii, then to California. This would help with geography/map reading skills. To develop their ability to read a graph, the worksheet would use graphs to illustrate the amount of Japanese immigrants that existed before and after a determined date. While not terribly sexy, map skills and the ability to read a graph is lacking in most students.