Role play: Homefront USA It is October, 1944.  You are a member of one of the following groups, You are a Latina shipyard worker in Southern California   More details about your character: a combat soldier who fought in Europe and lives in Detroit (and signed the letter from the military hospital on the page with extra info)  You get letters from your relatives in Detroit. a married white woman who lives in Mobile, Alabama, works in shipyard, but who did not work before the war began.  Let’s assume she responded to surveys conducted during the war. an African American woman civil rights activist and shipyard worker from San Francisco – she heard A. Phillip Randolph speak at a rally and likes his activism. a Latina shipyard worker who has a teenage son in high school in Los Angeles, and son in the Marines. The president of a CIO union, such as the United Auto Workers or United Mine Workers. You have visited many factories and mines.  President Roosevelt A Japanese American high school student, age 16, interned at Manzanar.   How to do the assignment: Your character is going to answer the four numbered questions below as if they are being interviewed on the radio or speaking to a reporter or writing in their diary.   Speak from the perspective of your assigned identity when you answer the following four questions in the homework even if you do not personally agree with their historical opinions. You should have at least one specific historical event, person, organization, fact, statistic, or idea – that is, specific example – for each answer.  Use the list of key terms on the reading guide as a starting point. Your response to each question  should be at least four sentences long.  Yes, you can go longer.  Yes, it is possible that your person might not have strong opinions about every question, but that’s not the point of this assignment.  You have to pretend that your person reads the newspaper, listens to the radio and goes to the movies all the time. And your character is familiar with any term from the chapter.  "Gosh, I don't read much" or "Gee, I could answer that question if I had a radio" are not acceptable answers

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Role play: Homefront USA It is October, 1944.  You are a member of one of the following groups,

You are a Latina shipyard worker in Southern California

 

More details about your character:

  1. a combat soldier who fought in Europe and lives in Detroit (and signed the letter from the military hospital on the page with extra info)  You get letters from your relatives in Detroit.
  2. a married white woman who lives in Mobile, Alabama, works in shipyard, but who did not work before the war began.  Let’s assume she responded to surveys conducted during the war.
  3. an African American woman civil rights activist and shipyard worker from San Francisco – she heard A. Phillip Randolph speak at a rally and likes his activism.
  4. a Latina shipyard worker who has a teenage son in high school in Los Angeles, and son in the Marines.
  5. The president of a CIO union, such as the United Auto Workers or United Mine Workers. You have visited many factories and mines. 
  6. President Roosevelt
  7. A Japanese American high school student, age 16, interned at Manzanar.

 

How to do the assignment: Your character is going to answer the four numbered questions below as if they are being interviewed on the radio or speaking to a reporter or writing in their diary.  

  • Speak from the perspective of your assigned identity when you answer the following four questions in the homework even if you do not personally agree with their historical opinions.
  • You should have at least one specific historical event, person, organization, fact, statistic, or idea – that is, specific example – for each answer.  Use the list of key terms on the reading guide as a starting point.
  • Your response to each question  should be at least four sentences long.  Yes, you can go longer.  Yes, it is possible that your person might not have strong opinions about every question, but that’s not the point of this assignment.  You have to pretend that your person reads the newspaper, listens to the radio and goes to the movies all the time. And your character is familiar with any term from the chapter.  "Gosh, I don't read much" or "Gee, I could answer that question if I had a radio" are not acceptable answers
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