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Students explore various scenarios that may or may not make them suspicious in the post-September 11 world, and discuss and write position papers about a fatal shooting involving air marshals and a mentally ill passenger.

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Grade
6th - 12th
Subjects
Social Studies & History
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1 hr
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Year
2005
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