Today we continued our discussion of 9/11. Students shared observations and comments from things they saw last Sunday, the 10 year anniversary. Students looked at a series of documents, including a speech given by then president Bush the evening of the attacks (below). For each of the documents, students wrote down a possible hypothesis of the author and evidence from the reading that supported their hypothesis. At the end of the period students wrote from their own perspective on the question of, "Why was the United States attacked on 9/11/01?"
At the end of the period, students listened to a radio story about a the effects of 9/11 on a Muslim-American girl:
HOMEWORK:
9/11 Oral History Interviews - DUE Thursday 9/15
