Assure lesson plan on 9/11

1. Teaching 9/11
By Alex Root

2. Analyze Learners
• An eighth grade class of 24 people
• 10 boys and 14 girls, 15 white, 5 African-American, and 4 Latinos
• Mostly visual and aural learner's
• No learning disabilities
• Homogeneous economic background
• Have a slight understanding of 9/11 from videos on the anniversary

3. Main objective
The students will be able to identify the basic timeline of the events occurred
on 9/11, from studying the timeline on the 9/11 museum website. Students
will be able to understand the gravity of this event by watching YouTube clips
of 9/11. Students will be able to state the effects on the United States and how
this event changed American policy by lecture and discussion. This will be
done in a school week and 90 minute sessions. The goal will be 95% retention
of the material graded by the student’s understanding and involvement during
the discussion.

4. Day by day breakdown
• Day 1 . I will start off with a simple quiz to get a consensus of the class's
knowledge of 9/11. After which I will show YouTube videos from news
broadcasting that day with full warning to the parents and students that
some of the images they might see may be graphic.
• Day 2. I will do a lecture with PowerPoint on the basic background of the
different leaders and organizations in which were involved or affected by
this event.
• Day 3. I will explain the aftereffects of 9/11, as well as events that were in
conjunction with the aftermath, such as the hunt for Saddam Hussein, the
invasion of Iraq, the TSA, Osama bin Laden's manhunt, and its continuation
with Al Qaeda and ISIS. Through discussion and use of the spider diagram.

5. Continuation
• Day 4 I will go over the healing and reconstruction of America and New York
City. I will showing pictures that I have taken personally of the cleaning the
wreckage of the twin towers, and showing other media, whether it be
YouTube or timeline photos of the remembrance of the victims of 9/11 and
the monuments dedicated to the victims around the world. As well as today's
policies and events that are in direct link of 9/11. As homework I will have
them talk to family members or friends who remember 9/11 and ask them
about their experiences.
• Day 5 On the final day, I will have the class gathering a circle and discuss
their family or friend’s memories of that day and experiences they might
have had from either the effects of 9/11, such as traveling through airport or
visiting different memorials and how learning what happened on that day
has it affected their point of view and understanding of the present.

6. Use of technology
• YouTube
• Internet
• PowerPoint
• Photos
• Spider diagram

7. Work cited
• http://www.911memorial.org/interactive-911-timelines
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtZKEjr-Sfg
• http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/us/sept-11-reckoning/viewer.html
• http://www.911memorial.org/images-videos/galleries
• http://timeline.911memorial.org/#Timeline/3