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Hard to believe that almost twenty years have passed since that fateful day changed our world. Even harder is realizing that for the students sitting before us this is just another historical event. Think about using this post in your Language Arts or Social Studies classrooms in some of the following ways: |
English/Language Arts
Explore literary devices and form
Imagery - “a cowardly bully came out of his cave”
Explore literary devices and form
Imagery - “a cowardly bully came out of his cave”
- Find more examples of imagery
- Find pictures that reflect the imagery the author uses in the poem
- Develop a different image that could reflect the same event
- Example: “bite a big apple”
- Explore what is being personified. Who is the bully? Who has lost their front teeth? How successful is this personification? Does it work as well today as it worked just after the event?
- Why does poetry work (or not work) for this subject matter? Find and compare to other pieces of poetry about acts of war, or other historical events. How is this similar? Different?
Social Studies
Explore historical events and bias/point of view
Terrorism
Explore historical events and bias/point of view
Terrorism
- Read as an anticipatory set for exploring 9/11 as an historical event.act of terrorism. Whose point of view is represented here? Is there bias? Explain and support.
- Write a poem to reflect another point of view surrounding this historic event. How has 9-11 changed the world?
© Karen Sterling, 2017 - May be used for educational purposes without written permission
