Teaching 9/11 - Past to Present
Title: America Is Under Attack: September 11, 2001 : The Day the Towers Fell. Author: Don Brown Copyright: Jacket Illustration, 2011 Publisher: Roaring Brook Press, New York Reading Level: Lexile: 840 Genre: Nonfiction Summary: As the Common Core has started to focus more on English Language Arts and Mathematics compared to Science, Social Studies, and the Arts, it is always a wonderful idea to incorporate some of those less focused on subjects in one that students spend a lot of time on! This is a prime example of one way to incorporate some Social Studies into English Language Arts. Author Don Brown provides an age-appropriate book for Elementary students to read about a historical day that ended up changing America. The book provides appropriate descriptions of the terrible events of 9/11 in the form of a heart-filled story - while first-responders, other heroes, the survivors and the victims - are a main focus, and not th...