September 11th

Liberty and the World Trade Center. 
Original 1983 print by New York Times photographer Fred Conrad.

      On that day — the Sept. 11 that requires no year — the sun set on crushed buildings in a reimagined world. It set on a recontoured skyline and a haunted city. The equations of life no longer worked. That’s the way it seemed.

      A decade now since the tall towers fell in New York and the Pentagon was gashed open and a diverted plane dropped into a field near Shanksville, Pa., people know where they were when they heard the unheard-of.

- From N.R. Kleinfield’s essay in “The Reckoning,” a special Times section that commemorated the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001.

JOURNAL: What do you know about the events of Sept. 11, 2001? What are the most important changes, in your life and in the world, in the last 13 years? Do you feel life for Americans has changed drastically? 

AGENDA:

1. Journal
2. Checking for understanding
3. Myth Presentation Overview
4. Here are the directions

HOMEWORK:

1. Post your favorite journal to your blog

2. Trolling blogs due today, September 11 by midnight

3. Latin Latin Latin Roots Roots Roots (Blog Post and Worksheets) by Friday

4. Schedule your work so as to finish Lit. Analysis #1 by Friday, September 26