Tenth Anniversary of 9-11 in Schools

Tuesday's Chicago Tribune had an article on what schools were going to do to mark the tenth anniversary of 9-11.

I was teaching 7th grade social studies at John T. Magee Middle School in Round Lake, Illinois, when it occurred. As soon as I found out about the attack, not until after first period, that became the lesson for today.

Unfortunately, I could not get the old black and white 13-inch TV set to work. We spent the day listening to the radio, It became a geography lesson where the students located New York City, Boston, New Jersey, Washington, DC, and Pennsylvania as well as the Middle East.

We took a look at the history of the United States and the Middle East.

This was the subject the following day and each student had to write a 500 word first-hand account of what happened to them 9-11.

I taught for for four more years after that and each class had to write a report on what they remembered about that day.

It Was a Day to Remember. --RoadDog