POV - 9/11 Lesson

AP Psychology	Current Events	Resource Room (SETSS)
Period 1	Periods 3 & 5	Period 8
Mr. Ott	Mr. Ott	Mr. Ott

Aim: How do multiple points-of-view (POV) affect analysis of historic events?

Do Now: 1. Take a blank sheet of writing paper. 2. Quick Write: Using the 5W's of history, write a paragraph explaining what you know about 9/11/2001? (Do not use First Person. ex. "I")

Lesson Overview:

Item	Approx Time
Do Now	3-5 Min
Activity	30 Min
Discussion	10 Min

Lesson Content

Background: The 9/11 terrorist attacks

On the morning of 11 September 2001, 19 hijackers took control of four commercial passenger jets flying out of airports on the east coast of the United States.

Two of the aircraft were deliberately flown into the main two towers (the Twin Towers) of the World Trade Center in New York, with a third hitting the Pentagon in Virginia.

The fourth plane never reached its intended target, crashing in Pennsylvania. It is believed that the passengers and crew overpowered the hijackers and took control of the plane.

Symbolic attacks The Twin Towers were widely considered to be symbols of America's power and influence. The Pentagon is the headquarters of the US Department of Defense.

Both 110-floor World Trade Center towers subsequently collapsed and substantial damage was caused to one wing of the Pentagon. Numerous other buildings at the World Trade Center site in lower Manhattan were destroyed or badly damaged.

The total loss of life on 9/11 was nearly 3,000, including the 19 hijackers. It was the worst loss of life due to a terrorist incident on US soil.

The days that followed saw a significant effect on world economic markets and international confidence.

Suspicion falls on al-Qaeda Suspicion soon fell on the radical Sunni Islamist group, al-Qaeda ('The Base' in Arabic) founded in 1988 and led by Saudi-born Osama Bin Laden.

There was good reason for this. Although difficult to confirm, it is thought al-Qaeda's involvement in world terrorism can be traced back to 1993, with the first World Trade Center bombing.

Over the next 8 years, al-Qaeda were implicated in a series of major attacks on US forces: the shooting down of two American Black Hawk helicopters in Somalia in October 1993, the killing of 19 Americans in a bombing at a military housing complex in Saudi Arabia in 1996, the bombing of US embassies in Dar Es Salaam and Nairobi in 1998, with the loss of 223 lives, and the suicide attack on the USS Cole in 2000, which killed 17 servicemen and wounded 39.

In 1996 Bin Laden called for his followers to "launch a guerrilla war against American forces and expel the infidels from the Arabian Peninsula"

Soon after the 1998 embassy bombings, The Federal Bureau of Investigation placed Bin Laden on their Ten Most Wanted list, offering a reward of $25million for his capture.

A new kind of enemy On the night of 11 September, with al-Qaeda widely believed to have conducted the attacks, President George W Bush described the events of that day as "evil, despicable acts of terror" and said the US was "at war with a new and different kind of enemy". The attack was denounced by governments worldwide.

In October 2001, attacks were launched on Afghanistan by western coalition forces in conjunction with the anti-Taliban Afghan Northern Alliance

Classwork & Homework

Lesson Video:

Flight 93 (2006)
9/11 Sequence of Events

Lesson Activity:

POV Worksheet

Homework: Assignments

Special Education Modifications

Teaching Model: Co-Teaching
Special Education Teacher will work with All students General Ed and Special Ed.
- Special Ed Students:
  - Teacher will read-aloud to students when necessary.
  - Teachers will break down assignments into smaller tasks.
  - Teachers will work with students on vocabulary acquisition by breaking down words into prefixes/suffixes and etymology.
  - Teachers will group students according to learning style inventory as a homogeneous group.
  - Teachers will keep students on-task by managing distractions and on-task behavior.
  - Teachers will modify note-taking by modeling notes from PowerPoint to chalkboard/whiteboard.
  - Teachers will differentiate lessons by using; verbal cues for auditory learners, graphic organizers for visual learners, and hands-on cues for tactile learners.