1. The Bracelet
By Yoshiko Uchida
Vocabulary and context

2. evacuated
verb
Removed from an
area
…every Japanese person on the
West Coast was being evacuated
by the government to a
concentration camp. (p.150)

3. interned
verb Imprisoned or confined,
especially during a
war
Or maybe the messenger would have
a telegram from Papa, who was
interned in a prisoner-of-war camp in

4. aliens
noun
foreigners
The government thought they
were dangerous enemy aliens.
(p.151)

5. forsaken
adjective
Abandoned; deserteBut the garden looked shabby
and forsaken now that Papa was
gone and Mama was too busy to
take care of it. P.152)

6. The bombing of Pearl Harbor
December 7, 1941

7. Japanese Americans
and World War II
During World
War II,
America
fought
against
Japan. At
that time, the
U.S.
government
grew
paranoid

8. Japanese-
Americans were
forced to shut
down their
businesses…an
d eventually…

9. They were sent to internment camps like this one.
120,000 Japanese Americans ended up in these
camps.

10. Camp Harmony
Puyallup, WA

11. The camps finally were all closed by
1945. Now, the U.S. government is
very sad about what had happened,
but many people will never forget
those days.