“In the Shadow of No Towers”

Primary Sources and 9/11

General overview of lesson

(2 class periods)• General discussion of bias and point of view

would take place on the Friday before anniversary weekend. Students’ initial journal entries could also be completed in class at this time.

• The second part, homework, would be “informal”: students to consider the elements of point of view and bias in any media they might see about 9/11 over the weekend.

• Looking at the primary sources – Spiegelman’s and other images -- could take place on the Monday following the anniversary weekend.

Objectives•  Discuss the notion that point of view or “bias” is not

always negative• Ascertain the sequence of events that comprise 9/11• Determine the particular narrative the artist/author is

establishing via the source about 9/1//2001• Analyze the how the author’s bias and point of view

have informed his work• Compare the graphic novel as a primary source

document to photographs of the event(s)• Work collaboratively in small groups• Articulate their understanding in small and large group

settings• Engage in respectful dialogue and discourse

Possible Images for Silent Conversation

Activity

8:48 am: AA Flight 11 crashes into the North

Tower.http://nymag.com/news/articles/wtc/

gallery/

Tower 2 Is Hit

9:06 am: UA Flight 175 crashes into the

South Tower.

http://nymag.com/news/articles/wtc/gallery/2.htm

The Facade Falls

The latticework facing of the south tower came tumbling to

earth upon impact of the hijacked plane.

http://nymag.com/news/articles/wtc/gallery/3.htm

Cover Art, Spiegelman

http://home.earthlink.net/~copaceticom1/IntheShadow.jpg

http://lambiek.net/artists/s/spiegelman/spiegelman_notowers2.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.

com/_H3uQvpZPI9

A/TAgM3Wi7ITI/AAAAAAAAGQ

s/XsqUNcEFYK8/

s1600/In+The+Shadow+Of+No+Towers+spiege

lman.jpg

http://bezalel.secured.co.il/8/moller15.files/image002.jpg

FLAG RAISING:GROUND ZERO AND IWO JIMA

Supplemental Activity:

http://www.iwojima.com/raising/raisingb.htm

http://theundergroundconservative.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/iwofirefighters-large.jpg

Supplemental Materials