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Prologue-September 9, 2001

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Baskin, Nora Raleigh. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story. Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2016. Hardcover.

• In the Prologue, the narrator comments that anyone you ask about September 11, 2001, would comment on the beautiful weather that day.

• It was perfect until 8:45 a.m. when the first plane hit the North Tower of the World Trade Center.

• On September 9, 2001, at 7:46 a.m. it is a drizzly day at the Chicago O’Hare International Airport.

• Sergio and another kid are waiting for their flight to New York.

• The boys were in Chicago being honored at the University of Chicago for the results of a math test they took.

• As Sergio thinks about his grandmother and what she is doing, he realizes that he has been homesick.

• He only agreed to go on the trip because she was so proud...

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