Sylvia & Aki is an award winning, historical fiction novel written in 2015. It tells the true story of an unexpected friendship between Sylvia Mendez and Aki Munemitsu, who found themselves at the center of two different systems of injustice in the United States in the 1940s. Engage and educate students with Storyboard That premade activities!
Students can use a setting map to illustrate the different settings in Sylvia & Aki. The setting of a story is the all important time and place.
Storyboard Text
YEARS
TIME
1941,1944-1945,1955
WESTMINSTER, CA & POSTON, AZ
PLACE
WORLD WAR II
THE MUNEMITSU / MENDEZASPARAGUS FARM
SEGREGATION
WESTMINSTER SCHOOL
Westminster Main School, 17th Street
JAPANESE AMERICAN INCARCERATION
Executive Order 9066Instructions to all persons of Japanese ancestry . . .
POSTON, AZ INTERNMENT CAMP
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