SEPT IIth Project

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Humanities/Ms Novick
PART I. THINKING ABOUT WHAT WE KNOW
WHAT DO YOU KNOW?

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO

KNOW? What questions can you
ask?

2. What was your personal experience regarding the attacks on

September 11th? How did you learn about what had happened that day?
What about your family and friends?

3. Did the aftermath of these attacks personally affect your family or

friends in any way? What was their experience?

PART II. NOTE-TAKING:

MEMORIALS

1. What is a memorial?

2. What memorials have we seen?

3. What is the purpose of a memorial?

PART III. VIDEO AND PRINT RESEARCH: DUE FRIDAY,

END OF CLASS
1. Watch the video 9/11 Timeline on history.com:
http://www.history.com/videos/911-timeline#911-timeline
Respond: What did this video make you think, feel, or wonder?
What information was new to you?
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2. Read the NY Times article, Closing a Scrapbook Full of Life and

Sorrow and answer the questions below.

What is Portraits of Grief?

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How did these portraits affect people who read them?

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What do the portraits intend to do? What do they intend NOT to

do?

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The article quotes several peoples responses to reading the

portraits. Quote at least 3 of those responses here:

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PART IV ONLINE RESEARCH: DUE MONDAY (begin

work in class on Friday)
1. Go to the NY Times 9/11 Victim Profiles: Portraits of Grief:
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/newyorkandregion/series/portr
aits_of_grief/
2. Read at least 7 stories. Be sure to scroll through the alphabet.
3. Choose 1 story to work with. Choose the one that speaks to you
most, that makes you feel some connection to the person--- that
resonates for you. [Resonate: to evoke images, connections,
emotions, memories.] Print out the article about that one
person.
4. Google the person you have chosen to learn about. What other
information can you find?
5. Choose or create a personal artifact that represents this person
and bring it to class on Monday. Remember, a personal artifact
is an object that represents a personit can represent a persons
personality or values. It can be a possessionsomething that
belonged to that person. It is an object that reveals something
about who the person is, what they cared about, it is a
6. Fill out the ARTIFACT EVALUATION SHEET on the next page.

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Artifact Evaluation Sheet

1. Who is person you have chosen to focus on for this project?

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2. Why did you choose this person?

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3. What artifact did you choose or create to represent this person?

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4. Why did you choose this artifact?

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5. What does this artifact tell us about the person you have focused on?

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PART V: IN CLASS ON MONDAY

Collaborative Group Project
1. Have each group member shares their story and artifact. Assign
someone in your group to watch the time and be sure this takes no
more than 10 minutes in total. About 2-3 minutes for each person in the
group.
2. Choose ONE person your group has learned about and create a
memorial for that person.
3. Your memorial must:

Be a visual representation of the person you have chosen: it must

have words and images.

Include an artifact that represents the personperhaps the

artifact is placed in front of the poster or attached to it.

Include the persons full name and where they were on Sept 11th.

Include details about the persons life and personality from the
article.

Hints: You may include quotes from the article. You may use
symbols, drawings, a poem. You may cut out pictures or photos
and glue them to your poster. You may bring any materials to
class that will help your group to construct this memorial.

THIS IS DUE AT THE END OF CLASS ON MONDAY. ON TUESDAY

EACH GROUP WILL PRESENT THEIR MEMORIAL. YOU MAY BE
PRESENTING TO THE 7TH GRADERS AS WELL. YOUR MEMORIAL

SHOULD BE DISPLAYED SOMEWHERE IN THE CLASSROOM AT THE

END OF THE DAY ON MONDAY.
This memorial is also your first project grade for this class. See
rubric below.

9/11 MEMORIAL PROJECT RUBRIC

Group members:
Exemplary
3 points
Process
Group stays focused
on the task
Group respectfully
listens to one another
All group members
participate in
discussion and
creation of the
memorial
Group members clean
up their workspace
Product
Memorial contains
effective words
Memorial contains
effective visual
images .
Memorial includes an
artifact that
represents the person
Memorial includes the
persons full name
and where they were
on Sept 11th.
Memorial provides
details about the
persons life and
personality
Memorial affects the
viewer on 3 levels:
intellectual, moral and
emotional
Total points:
Group Grade:

Satisfactory
2 points

Needs revision
1 or 0 points