I would like to include the Executive Order 9066 for my final project. I will propose an assignment or lesson in which the students will conduct a search for the Executive Order 9066 on the web and examine the differences in the search results for the first page. They will evaluate at least 2 or 3 links that they observe to be credible. They will take notes of their observations and write down 1 or 2 questions about the search activity.
Then, I would direct my students to conduct a visualization activity for the Executive Order 9066, by copying it from ourdocuments.org and pasting it into Concordle. I chose Concordle because it is less distracting than Voyant, and it is simple. It will result in a low-key word cloud. The students can observe which words were bigger and smaller in the word cloud. Also, they will view the number of frequencies of the 3 biggest words and 3 smallest words in the word cloud. By having a visualization of the Executive Order 9066, the students can reference it in Concordle while trying to make sense of the Executive Order. They will begin to ask questions about certain words and what is missing or hidden. Also, they will begin to make connections between the Executive Order 9066 and what was happening during that time period in history. These connections will foster their historical thinking by developing historical questions.
