As the nation prepares to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States, many parents and teachers are struggling with how to teach about the disastrous events. Many younger students, meanwhile, might not even realize the significance of the day itself. “When young students watch the image of the two towers being attacked, they don’t understand if that’s happening now, if it’s happening many times over, or one time,” said Joan Brodsky Schur, a longtime member of the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) and author of We Are Living History: Reflections of a New York City Social Studies Teacher.
At STRIDE, you can be certain that the teaching we do will be done in a respectful way towards the people who gave their lives, but also respect the needs of children. Please take time next week and talk about this piece of our history in your homes. Below you will see some of the resources we will be using on Friday September 9, 2011 to teach the second grade students about his important day. Please feel free to use them as well and pass them on to other parents.
Sincerely,
Ms. Hull and Mrs. Helmbrecht
b. From PBS, “America Responds”: A lesson that is cited and used by several other sites as well: http://www.pbs.org/americaresponds/educators.html
c. A digital archive of pictures of objects having to do with 9/11: http://americanhistory.si.edu/september11/
d. A second digital archive: http://911digitalarchive.org/
e. A podcast on the post-9/11 landscape: http://www.readwritethink.org/parent-afterschool-resources/podcast-episodes/post-landscape-30336.html
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