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A Japanese American girl and a Mexican American girl hold dolls that look like them. They stand in a farmhouse bedroom.

Sylvia & Aki by Winifred Conkling

By Liane Hicks

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!




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Sylvia & Aki

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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.

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  • 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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