What We Want to Know about World War II, p.1 and p.5

In Language Arts we are beginning a historical fiction unit.  We will be reading a novel together called, "Behind the Bedroom Wall" by Laura Williams.  We are starting the unit with a KWL discussion.  What we already KNOW, what we WANT to know, and what we LEARNED.  The following questions were brainstormed in class yesterday after a great discussion of what we already know.  At anytime during this unit students can earn extra credit by researching and answering the questions.

Period 5's Questions:

• Did Italian-Americans get the same treatment as Japanese-Americans by the United States during World War II?
• Why did Japan bomb Pearl Harbor?
• How many concentration camps existed during WWII?
• How many Jewish people were killed at Auschwitz?
• Why did Hitler want everyone to have blond hair and blue eyes?
• When did the U.S. drop the atomic bomb on Japan?

Period 1's Questions:

·    Why did Japan bomb Pearl Harbor?

·    What was China doing WWII?

·    Where was Russia during this time?

·    Why did Hitler blame the Jews?

·    Were South and North Korea involved in WWII?

·    How did Americans react to the bombing of Pearl Harbor?

·    How did Japan affect Alaska during the war?

·    Where does the term World War come from?

·    What happened to Germans who helped Jewish people during the war?

·    What was WWII about?

·    What was the Cold War about?

·    How did we treat Germany after the war?