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How do you teach or commemorate 9/11?

Eric Schulz

I wanted to share the link for the 9/11 Museum's 2025 Digital Learning Experience.  
There are four stories and you do not need to show them all.  The entire video is about 30 minutes long.  Loss, grief, resilience, and service are some of the topics they touch on.  I will be showing the entire video to my world history classes tomorrow but the link is already available and will continue to work after tomorrow.    This year's version is different from last year.  There is an archive if you want to share a story from a previous year.  
There are many great resources but this link covers how to talk to kids about terrorism.

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     Teaching students about 9/11 today is the same as teachers explaining Pearl Harbor in 1965.  It's getting harder to convey the message the way we understand it.  I was on the viewing deck of the WTC in late summer '99 and so I take out snap shots I took.  I can tell them exactly where I was and what I was doing that morning.  Now we get to explain 9/11 along with an assassination of a political figure and a looming war between NATO and Russia.  Guess we have a lot in common with those teachers in 1965 explaining what Pearl Harbor meant to our nation.

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    I'll second this. As someone who was younger than my students are now, I don't really feel like I have much to add in terms of personal experience.

    I also feel personally conflicted with how the event was used to justify the war on terror. I have a hard time separating the two, so I keep my remarks brief and point students in the direction of the best retrospective I can find. I'll add this resource to the repertoire.

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    I take a different approach and look at "Welcome to the Desert of the Real" with my AP Students to see quite a different view of the event. We also using the HAPPY Sourcing Tool to look at George W. Bush's speech from that night and Osama Bin Laden's letter to America and bring in comparison.