Japanese Memorial Worksheet

Use this worksheet as a guide as you visit the memorial. Try and answer the following questions. Take notes about other things you find interesting. Keep this worksheet and bring it to class on Wednesday, June 3, 2009.

  1. Two copper columns frame the approach to the plaza. Describe what you find on the two columns?
  2. What are the names of the internment camps that people from Portland were sent to?


  3. The memorial was designed by a landscape artist and a poet, amongst others. How does the landscape and the poetry interact with other parts of the memorial?


  4. What part of the Memorial did you find the most moving?


  5. What part of the Memorial did you find the most surprising?


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