Farewell to ManzanarJeanne Wakatsuki Houston &

James Houston

77thth Grade Language Arts Grade Language Arts

Chapters 1-3 (pp. 2-20)• Issei: Japanese immigrants to the U.S.• Nisei: children of Japanese immigrants

born in the United States• Sansei: 3rd generation of Japanese

ancestry born during or after World War II

• internment (11): the act of confining someone into a prison or camp

• cubicle (17): a small space or compartment within a larger room

Chapters 1-3 (pp. 2-20)

• canneries (3): factories where foods are canned• saboteur (5): a person who tries to purposely

cause destruction or problems• migrant (8): a person who moves from place

to place to get work• patriarch (11): the male leader of a family• hostility (12): unfriendliness or opposition

against a person or group

Chapters 4-6 (pp.21-45)

• tangible (29): able to be touched• reservoir (29): an area used to collect and

store large amounts of water• astounded (31): amazed• firebreaks (33): a strip of land cleared to

prevent the spread of a fire• flourish (36): dramatic words or actions

Chapters 4-6 (pp. 21-45)

• desolate (25): barren; without life• barracks (27): a group of building for

housing large groups of soldiers/people

• shrine (32): a place or building considered holy

• industrial (37): having the ability to mass-produce items in a factory

• magistrate (37): a judge

Chapters 7-11 (pp. 46-70)

• inu (51): an insult meaning “dog”• deliberately (51): done on purpose• lynch mob (57): a group of people who want

to physically kill (hang) a person without a trial

• renounce (57): to give back or give up• repatriation (67): to send a person back to

his/her own country

Chapters 7-11 (pp. 46-70)

• informers (51): people who give information to authorities; by some called “snitches”

• ghastly (54): shockingly frightful or dreadful

• festered (56): spread like a disease; infected• black market (56): selling items in an illegal way• samisen (69): a Japanese three-stringed

guitar-like instrument

Chapters 12-14 (pp. 73-93)

• Manzanar (73): apple orchard (Span.)• despair (77): the loss of hope• stark (79): harsh; desolate• coax (85): to persuade• martyr (87): a person who would die

rather than give up his/her beliefs

Chapters 12-14 (pp. 73-93)

• resentment (76): feeling insulted or angry because of an action or remark of another

• sustenance (75): anything that helps sustain life• oriental (77): Asian (or eastern)• Obon (84): Japanese festival honoring

dead ancestors• relentless (90): not giving up; not ending

Chapters 15-17 (pp.94-109)• concealed (96): hidden• curfew (97): a set, enforced time when

people are to be indoors at home

• bias (97): favoring one group or idea over another; prejudice

• propaganda (98): information or ideas presented in order to help

or harm the reputation of another group or country

• ominous (99): threatening; the sense thatsomething bad will happen

Chapters 15-17 (pp.94-109)• Tule Lake (95): one of the other nine (“too-

lee”) internment camps where the potential “trouble-makers” were sent

• taut (103): tightly pulled or stretched• assimilate (99): to take on the customs of

others• cringe (100): to shrink or draw back in fear• Quonset hut (105): a semi-circular shaped, metal

building used as army barracks or for storage

Chapters 18-20 (pp. 110-130)

• bleak (118): cold, piercing, depressing• benevolent (122): kind; desiring to help others• guileless (123): honest; sincere• intangible (126): unable to be touched• aristocrat (130): a noble; a person who is

considered the most elegant or stylish

Chapters 18-20 (pp. 110-130)

• buoyed (114): floated; kept afloat• Okie (117): a person from Oklahoma

who migrated to another state looking for work

• indefinitely (117): without knowing the ending time

• yearned (123): strongly desired• acquiescence (123): a lack of objecting or

disagreement; to give in to

Chapters 21-22 (pp. 131-156)• assented (132): agreed or concurred• malice (133): the desire to harm or cause

suffering to others• ultimatum (138): a demand or threat that, if

ignored, will result in the cutting off of relations or

use of force• pilgrimage (151): a journey made to a special

place for a spiritual reason• deterred (156): prevented; stopped

Chapters 21-22 (pp. 131-156)

• thwart (133): to prevent from accomplishing a goal

• coronation (138): the ceremony of crowning of a person

• defiance (152): a bold resistance to authority• laden (155): loaded down; burdened• coma (156): a long time when a person

is unconscious