Daily Lessons for Teaching The 9/11 Commission Report

Daily Lessons

This section contains 30 daily lessons. Each one has a specific objective and offers at least three (often more) ways to teach that objective. Lessons include classroom discussions, group and partner activities, in-class handouts, individual writing assignments, at least one homework assignment, class participation exercises and other ways to teach students about the text in a classroom setting. Use some or all of the suggestions provided to work with your students in the classroom and help them understand the text.

Lesson 1

Objective: Chapter 1 "We Have Some Planes" September 11, 2001 is a date that will never be forgotten in America. The objective of this lesson is to analyze the 9/11 attacks beginning with the hijackers boarding the planes.

1) 1) Class: The crash of the two aircrafts into each of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center (WTC) marked the beginning of one of the most tragic...
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