1. What links these pictures?
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2. What links these pictures?
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Slide 3: montage of six small photographs or
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Slides 5–10: one photograph per slide

3. What links these pictures?

4. What links these six pictures?
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What links these six pictures?

11. Photos – in depth
Now focus on some of the people involved. See what we can learn from their actions.

12. Who is this? What was his job?
Who is this, and what was his job? George W Bush, President of the United States.
What was he doing when he first heard the news of the attacks? Reading a book to children. He continued to read, then slowly left the classroom to be updated on events.
Reflection: Think about how important it is to stay calm. How does it help others? What responsibility do we have to avoid creating alarm or panic for other people, especially children?
Who is this? What was his job?
What was he doing when he first heard the news of the attacks?

13. Why are they running and some covering their heads?
Who are these people, and why are they running and some covering their heads? Workers in the area around the World Trade Centre buildings in New York, scrambling for cover to avoid the debris showering from the damaged tower.
Reflection: What emotions are shown on the faces of the people in the photograph? Are they thinking, or acting on impulse? How might we, as individuals, respond in an emergency evacuation?
Who are these people?
Why are they running and some covering their heads?

14. Who are these people? What are they doing?
Who are these people, and what are they doing? Firefighters resting on the pavement opposite the World Trade Centre collapse site. The work of searching for survivors and the recovery of victims was both exhausting and dangerous.
Reflection: What motivates people to risk their lives to save others? How can communities show their appreciation to emergency workers and others?
Who are these people? What are they doing?

15. Who is this, and where is he?
Who is this, and where is he? An anti-Taliban soldier with his machine gun in the Tora Bora region of Afghanistan. Believed to be the location of Osama bin Laden's mountain base, the Tora Bora mountains were the main focus of military action in December 2001.
Reflection: If you were this soldier, what might be on your mind? Think about all the different people, different ages, in different situations, military and civilian, affected by war. What do they have in common?
Who is this, and where is he?

16. Where is this? What is happening?
Where is this, and what is happening? Passengers' carry-on bags are being checked by security staff and national guards at Los Angeles airport. Airline security has greatly increased in the ten years since 9/11.
Reflection: Look at the tension and concentration of those in the photograph. What does it indicate? In the early days of increased security, some people responded to the tension by joking about carrying bombs in their luggage. They were treated very seriously by the law. Why?
Where is this? What is happening?

17. Where is this soldier sitting, and why?
Where is this soldier sitting, and why? He is at the Pentagon Memorial, built to commemorate the 184 people who died at the site. The illuminated benches, one for every victim, are engraved with their names and arranged in age order - from a three year old to a 71 year old.
Reflection: Remembering those who died is a vital part of our culture. Think about the emotions it stirs. In what way does bringing people together for memorial services help them cope with sadness and loss?
Where is this soldier sitting, and why?

18. Follow-up activities
Write captions for each of the photographs in the sequence. Use the form of newspaper headlines. Look at the results. What story do they tell about the way people deal with adversity?
Carry out a survey of parents, friends or adults in the local community. How many can remember what they were doing when they first heard of the 9/11 attacks? What was their immediate reaction? Can they point to any way that life has been changed by those events?
Research one or more of the different memorial sites, completed or planned at the three sites of the plane crashes. What choices did the designers make? What were they trying to achieve? Find something unusual or particularly thoughtful about the design to report back.

19. Photo captions and credits
Photo 1 US President George W Bush has his early morning school reading event interupted by his Chief of Staff Andrew Card shortly after news of the New York City airplane crashes.
© Paul J Richards/AFP/Getty Images
Photo 2 Workers in the area around the World Trade Centre buildings in New York, scrambling for cover to avoid the debris showering from the damaged tower.
© David Handschuh/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images
Photo 3 Firefighters resting on the pavement opposite the World Trade Centre collapse site.
© Beth A Keiser/AFP/Getty Images
Photo 4 An anti-Taliban soldier with his machine gun in the Tora Bora region of Afghanistan.
© Chris Hondros/Getty Images
Photo 5 Passengers' carry-on bags are being checked by security staff and national guards at Los Angeles airport. © Nick Ut - Pool/Getty Images
Photo 6 A soldier at the Pentagon Memorial, built to commemorate the 184 people who died at the site.
© Matt McClain/For The Post via Getty Images
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This resource was written by PJ White and produced in August 2011.
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