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9/11 ANNIVERSARY UNIT STUDY

Subjects that should be covered are: 
1.) Understanding Islam
3.) How Should a Christian respond.
4.) World Trade Center--
            Building Construction http://science.howstuffworks.com/engineering/structural/wtc.htm
5.) President Bush/Mayor Giuliani/key leaders during that time period. 
6.) The first responders & who they were. 
7.) Why the war? Who's, What's, When, Where's?
8.) Countries/leaders with the strong Islamic Terrorist Movements-social studies. Understand the cultures of the middle east and Islam. 
ACTIVITIES
    *Children map the U.S.---where they live, New York and Washington D.C., Afghanistan, Irag, Pakistan
*Girls Dress Up Learning the Clothing of a Muslim Woman:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niqab?vm=r  (face covering: niqab)
*Interview a First Responder about their jobs.
*Write about a leader of that time. 
*Osama Bin Laden --who is he?
*Diagram, color the World Trade Center
The list will be added on to as we go.
The History Chanel sends me an educators magazine here are web sites they gave me for this particular lesson.


www.history.com/102minutes
www.national911memorial.org
www.tributewt.org/index.php
www.learnabout9-11.org
www.nytimes.com/pages/national/portraits 

BOOKS:
Forever After: New York City Teachers on 9/11
Voices from September 11th
Report From Ground Zero
With Their Eyes: September 11th, The View from a High School at Ground Zero

MY ADDITIONS: 
http://www.pbs.org/americaresponds/educators.html I WILL PROBABLY GO OFF ON THIS ONE.
http://www.tolerance.org/activity/who-are-arab-americans I HESITATE WITH THIS; THOUGH I DO BELIEVE WE NEED TO LOVE ALL ESPECIALLY OUR NEIGHBOR; YET THIS DOES NOT MEAN WE EMBRACE THEIR BELIEFS...BUT WE NEED TO  CHECK THIS PRESENTATION  OUT AND GLEAN FROM IT. 
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson/lesson277.shtml Simple 5 ideas; won't use them all but like them.
 World Trade Center Videos-as tragic as it was visual always is a great teacher that will make an impact

I WILL ADD MORE TO THIS BLOG AS MY CHILDREN AND I LEARN. 
Join me and pick up books at the library; an amazing resource as well as the web. 
I would love to hear from fellow educators how this experience has impacted your life. We all have been touched deeply 10 years ago when this attack on America took place. 

Enjoy learning!
   Daneille Gray Snowden

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