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Pages 1-39

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Takei, George. They Called Us Enemy. Top Shelf Productions, 2019. Paperback.

• At the beginning of the book on pages 1-39, it was 1942.

• George Takei’s father, Takekuma, woke George and his brother Henry.

• He told them to dress quickly and wait while he finished packing.

• Armed soldiers came to the door, and George’s father asked for more time so he could help his family get ready.

• They gave him ten more minutes.

• Takekuma told the boys to go help their mother and sister, and then wait in the driveway.

• The boys wondered what was going on, but neither of them knew.

• When they go outside George’s mother, Fumiko was crying.

• The story shifted to 2014 when George was telling about that night at a TED Talk in Kyoto, Japan.

• He told the crowd...

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