Dear Miss Breed and Textual Evidence

Who was Miss Breed?

• A teacher who taught at the Relocation Center

• A librarian who collects and writes letters to the Japanese Americans living in the Relocation Center.

• A sociologist

• A young Japanese American girl living inside the internment camp.

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Where is the Poston Relocation Center?

• California near a beach

• San Diego

• Germany in a concentration camp

• Arizona in the middle of the desert

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

What is the setting of Dear Miss Breed?

• An internment camp for Japanese Americans after Pearl Harbor

• A concentration camp in Germany

• Miss Breed's library

• None of the above

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Why was living at the Poston Relocation Center so difficult?

• Extreme heat

• Water and electricity was out on Sundays

• Loss of appetite due to weather

• All of the above

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CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.5.10

Which sentence from the excerpt shows how the Nikkei most likely felt about the relocation center?

• “Whoever I met carried wet towels on his heads”

• “It seemed as if they had reached the ends of the earth”

• “Due to a shortage of wood, barracks were built with green pine that shrank and left cracks between the boards, allowing sand and insects to seep and creep inside.”

• “Everyone over seventeen was fingerprinted and had to sign an agreement that he or she would live by the regulations of the center and work.”

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CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

What is a main idea of Dear Miss Breed?

• Letters show that two teenagers at a particular relocation camp have different perspectives of the same experience

• Letters preserve information about the living conditions of Japanese Americans who are interned at relocation camps

• Letters provide expert testimony from official leaders and intellectuals about the suffering of Japanese Americans

• Letters emerge that prove the government kept information about relocation camps secret from the public

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CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

Which inference can be best made about the people that arrive at Poston Relocation Center?

• They feel curious

• They feel suspicion

• They feel tenderness

• They feel disoriented

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CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RI.9-10.1

Which textual evidence from Dear Miss Breed most strongly supports the Nikkei felt disoriented?

• "It was ten degrees hotter than the Libyan desert.”

• “Where there had been nothing, a city of tar-papered barracks was hastily built to house more than eighteen thousand Nikkei.”

• “Upon my arrival at the Poston Relocation Center, I stood bewildered, glaring at the hot dusty desert, wondering how we could survive.”

• “In 1865, he had helped to establish the Colorado River Reservation.”

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CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Which inference can be made about the trip the Nikkei took to the relocation center?

• The trip was unusual but exciting.

• The trip went well but was difficult.

• The trip was extensive and exhausting.

• The trip went well but was difficult.

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CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

Which textual evidence from Dear Miss Breed most strongly supports the Nikkei's trip was exhausting and extensive?

• “After twenty hours on a train and another hour on a hot, dusty bus, the Nikkei arrived at the Poston Relocation Center.”

• “The nearest town, Parker, Arizona, was sixteen miles away and it had just one telephone!”

• “When they stepped off the bus, friends didn’t recognize one another.”

• “As buses pulled in, a monitor climbed on board to explain how they were to line up for housing and registration.”

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CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RI.8.8