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One Event: Different Perspectives

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Students watch a video clip from "The Path to 9/11" and write a summary of one of the events depicted. Next, they read the 9/11 Commission Report to compare information from the report to that of the media clip. They chose one more print source to use as they write a comparative essay and discuss the differences in how the events were depicted.

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Media Literacy, point of view

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point of view, media, social studies
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9th - 12th
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Social Studies & History
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