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Lesson 1 (from Prologue - Chapter 1)
Objective
This lesson introduces students to the nonfiction book The Looming Tower: al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright. Students will read the Prologue, analyze the book’s narrative style, and discuss the events of 1996 that set the stage for the eventual failure of the United States in preventing the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, the U.S. Pentagon, and Washington, D.C. In his prologue, Wright introduces Dan Coleman, an FBI investigator who discovered information about al-Qaeda but was ignored by his superiors.
Lesson
Group Assignment: Assign students to groups of 3-4 each to read the Prologue to the book. As a group, discuss the reading and create a list of the clues discovered by Dan Coleman in regards to al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden. Discuss the different reasons that Coleman’s discoveries did not gain the attention of his supervisors.
Research Activity...
Aligned to the following Common Core Standards:
- ELA-Reading: Literature RL.9-10.1, 9-10.10, 11-12.1, 11-12.3, 11-12.10
- ELA-Writing W.9-10.7, 11-12.7
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