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Safe and Secure: More or Less?

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Students discuss what they believe to be the state of security of the nation since September 11, 2001. Reading articles on security, they gather insight into new reports on security. They write letters to major newspapers expressing their opinions on terrorism.

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6th - 12th
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Social Studies & History
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