Lesson: snow falling on cedars, 1999        

Plot Summary: Carl, a fisherman in the waters off Washington state, has been found dead, drowned in own nets, but with a serious head wound. Was he murdered? Post-war anti-Japanese sentiments are still running high, and the local Japanese community provides a murder suspect in the form of Kabuo, another fisherman, who had a grudge against Carl's family. Ishmael, the small town's newspaperman, may have the information that would acquit Kabuo, but can he ever put his jilted love for Hatsue (Kabuo's wife) aside? Written by Martin Lewison

Students will analyze the movie Snow Falling On Cedars and the book by David Guterson. Topics that will be discussed will be the Japanese Internment Camps and the panic that swept across America in the early years of WWII. Film terminology will be presented as they are demonstrated in the exhibition of the motion picture.