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Free September 11 Lesson Plans Available

Cengage Learning, a leading global provider of innovative teaching, learning and research solutions, today announced the donation of copies of After 9/11, an educational resource covering the events of 9/11 and the following decade, to all public high schools in New York City. In addition, Cengage has made free lesson plans available online for all teachers nationwide.

"The events of 9/11 are too critical to the contemporary world to not be taught in schools. Many teachers feel 9/11 is, for many students, an historical event – distant and abstract, while others feel, from a teaching perspective, it is still too soon for objective analysis," said Nader Qaimari, senior vice president, marketing, Cengage Learning. "After 9/11 helps teachers deal with this sensitive but important topic by providing the facts of the day, not the gruesome details, and focus on the response - how we coped, how we changed and how it changed us. In addition, we provide different ways to teach the material so teachers can choose an approach that works best for their students."

After 9/11, from Cengage Learning's new Behind the Headlines series, provides a factual and unbiased retelling of the events of September 11, 2001 and the subsequent decade. The book, which is accompanied by a teacher's edition, is designed to not only help today's high school students understand the attacks and their context, but allow them to evaluate the issues and events resulting in the following years. After 9/11 is available for purchase and covers the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq – how they emerged and developed; changes in national security and the individual privacy compromises they required; and, more broadly, the effects of the attacks on the world.

Cengage has also provided online resources to all educators via the Zoom: After 9/11 Web site, an online learning resource featuring a sophisticated interactive timeline and 12 free lesson plans covering the following topics:

  1. The Economic Impact of 9/11
  2. Democracy in Afghanistan?
  3. Invasion of Iraq: How Did We Get There?
  4. Freedom in the Age of Terrorism
  5. International Terror, International Response
  6. Fit for Duty?
  7. Probability and Racial Profiling
  8. Ground Zero Epidemiology
  9. American-ness in Post-9/11 Literature
  10. 9/11 in Film
  11. 9/11 in Music
  12. The Art of Remembrance

 

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