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Civic Connections
Opening Activity
Santa Monica, CA—October, 2001
How have you dealt with this
tragedy in your life either personally or professionally?
- Cried
- Helped quickly organize
a workshop for teachers in dealing with their students' feelings and
managing classroom discussions
- Helped inform students
and peers about background to the events
- Spent time with friends
and family
- Helped facilitate students'
desire to "do something to help" (money collection)
- Kept going and pushed others
to do so
- Modified units to provide
info/context
- Focus on relationships
- promoting occasions of talk, play, activity, comfort, and safety
- Collecting Red Cross donations
and teddy bears
- Donating blood
- Explaining U.S. MidEast
relationships
- Talked about tolerance
and understanding
- Discussed with student's
extremists do not represent entire group of people
- Let them ask questions
- Helped students research
other countries' freedoms and compared them with U.S. and then discuss
what freedoms U.S. lost on 9/11/01
- Taught lesson about discrimination
day after
Write one word describing
your feelings about the attacks which occurred on September 11th
- Terrified
- Horrific
- Numb
- Disbelief
- Reflective
- Pain
- Anger
- Shock but surprised we
were surprised
- Shock
- Shocked
- Afraid for my safety for
the first time in my life
- Dread
- Flabbergasted
- Incredulous
- Saddened
What resources (stories, books,
films, songs, etc.) would you recommend to other educators to help students
process the events of September 11th?
- CRF Website
- PBS video: Search for Osama
Bin Laden
- Travel channel/BBS: Who
is Bin Laden?
- Invite members of the Islamic
community to school/class
- Review history, place events
in context
- Make time for counseling
- reflective thinking
- A & E biography - Osama
Bin Laden
- Special episode of West
Wing
- Have Islamic students share
- National Geographic: Afghanistan
This Sunday Night MNBC
- "What's Going On?" - special
recording
- Bill of Rights
- Teaching Tollerance
- supplement to middle school
- Social Educator October 2001
How can you use service-learning
to help students feel more hopeful and cope with the September 11th
tragedy?
- Getting parents and grandparents
to share experiences of previous tragedies
- Partnerships in the community
- sense of togetherness
- Turn sense of powerlessness
into hope through action
- Discussions of tolerance
and diversity (Civil Rights Team)
- Projects bringing students
of different cultures together
- Meet with Islamic school,
learn about Muslim culture/religion
- Students place their state/country
of origin on a map, use that as a starting point for discussion of cultures
- Support local mosque
- Fair about Islam
- Food sale to raise money,
collection boxes
- Make connections to the
Bill of Rights
- Empower students in a way
that supports curriculum
- Cross-age teaching around
Bill of Rights, Constitution, religion
- Teach-ins to promote understanding,
bring in community guests, representative from Muslim community
- Look for thematic connections
- culture diversity
- Examine own communities
and cultural heritage
- Military communities
- Living history museum -
connection to theater/arts
- Research freedoms of other
countries, compare to U.S. What freedoms did we lose after 9/11? Would
you die for your beliefs?
- Be in community, make a
better understanding to prevent future problems
- Conflict resolution
- Meeting real community
needs - local and national
- Student ownership
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