SQ3R WORKSHEET

1. RECORD IMPORTANT TITLE AND SUBTITLE FROM READING SELECTION

Title: Wartime Hawaii
Subtitle: Hawaii’s Multiracial Society
The Nisei and Issei
Changing Attitudes Towards Haoles
The Majority becomes a Minority

2. WRITE WHO, WHAT, WHY, WHERE AND WHEN QUESTIONS FOR THE MAIN
TOPICS OF THE SELECTION
A. Where in Hawaii did Capt James secretly land ashore?
B. Where in Hawaii did the war start?
C. Why did Nisei women wave their kimonos?
D. Who received the hospital gowns?
E. When did African-American servicemen arrive on the islands?

3. AS YOU READ, WRITE ANSWERS FROM YOUR QUESTIONS

A. Honolulu
B. Pearl Harbor
C. To signal Japanese pilots
D. Red Cross and Office of Civil Defense
E. After the war

4. RECORD THE KEY FACTS OR TERMS NECESSARY TO KNOW FOR THE SECTION
A. Haoles - a person who is not a native Hawaiian, especially a white person.
B. Brothels - a house where men can visit prostitutes.
C. Kimonos - a long, loose robe with wide sleeves and tied with a sash, originally worn as
a formal garment in Japan and now also used elsewhere as a robe.
D. Incarceration - the state of being confined in prison; imprisonment.
E. Imprisonment - the state of being imprisoned; captivity.
F. Multiracial - made up of or relating to people of several or many races.
G. Society - the aggregate of people living together in a more or less ordered community.
H. Harbor - a place on the coast where vessels may find shelter, especially one protected
from rough water by piers, jetties, and other artificial structures.
I. Issei - a Japanese immigrant to North America.
J. Nisei - a person born in the US or Canada whose parents were immigrants from Japan.

5. CREATE A SUMMARY FOR THE SELECTION

On December 7, 1941 the Japanese launched a surprise attack on the US Naval Base
Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, using bombers, torpedo bombers and midget submarines. On
December 8, President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered a speech, also known as the “Infamy
Speech” to the American citizens, informing them that this happened while the US was in the
midst of talks to keep peace. That same day, America entered into World War II.On the
southern end of Oahu, Pearl Harbor held a 22,000 acre naval base.

Early in the morning on December 7, more than 350 Japanese planes attacked about 33
American ships on orders of Vice-Admiral Chuichi Nagumo. America sustained a loss of nearly
170 aircraft destroyed and 160 damaged that morning, as well as three ships destroyed and 16
damaged. Three thousand seven hundred Americans lost their lives, including 68 civilians. The
cost to the Japanese was 29 aircraft, five midget submarines, and 130 service personnel, all but
one of whom was killed in action.