English IV 9/11 Tribute Movie Assignment

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English IV9/11 Tribute Movie Assignment
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Assignment

• You will research a person involved in the tragic
  events of September 11, 2001.
• Your goal is to memorialize one who has fallen or
  offer a tribute to one who survived.

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Procedure

• You will choose either a person who died in the
  events on 9/11 or who was involved in the rescue
  efforts or who survived.
• Possible choices include first responders, people
  on the four airplanes, people in the World Trade
  Center, the Pentagon, and officials working to
  protect and save the citizens.
• This person should be lesser known than the ones
  who instantly come to mind. (i.e. Betty Ong, Todd
  Beamer, President Bush, the guy in the red
  bandana, etc.) Consult the list of excluded
  persons before choosing.
• Go to http//www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/memorial/l
  ists/by-name/page90.html
• Look through names and choose someone.

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Sign up for your hero

• Sign the list and make sure that no one in your
  class period has chosen the same person.
• Do not choose the following
• Todd Beamer, Betty Ong, Thomas Cain, Dick
  Cheney,
• George Bush, Donald Rumsfeld
• Richard Clark, Rudy Guiliani, Man with the red
  bandana, Welles Crowther, Mark Bingham, Jeremy
  Glick

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Research--Make Contact

• If you would like to email or Facebook
  contacts for this person and have your parents'
  permission to do so, please include the following
  information in your email
• your name, school's name, teacher's name and
  email address, a brief description of the
  project, and what you are asking for (pictures,
  memories, etc.). -Please be sensitive in your
  wording, since you are asking a stranger for
  assistance in recreating something that was very
  painful.

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Send letter via email or Facebook

• Bring a copy of your letter to me for approval
  before you send it. You may not use email or
  facebook contact as a source without first having
  your letter approved. When you send the
  correspondence, send the copy to my email.
  Forward all emails/facebook communication to my
  email address as well.

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Be creative and resourceful

• Find out everything you can about your person.
  Pursue information regarding his/her
  life--background, hometown, occupation, family,
  friends, and perhaps future.

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Tribute

• You will create a movie about your person to show
  to the class, telling about his/her life, work
  and anything that will help bring him/her to
  life.
• Give this person a voice.
• Make him/her real.
• Offer as many details as you can.

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• Think outside the box with your research and
  feel free to use your abundant creativity.

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Flashdrive and Index Cards

• You will need a flashdrive.
• You will need 4x6 (or larger) index cards (50
  total by Tuesday, September 11).

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Citing sources

• Include an annotated bibliography. (information
  to come)

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Reminders

• Meet in the lab on Monday, 9/10
• Bring your flash drive each day.
• NAME your flash drive with YOUR NAME.
• Name your project with your heros name
• Keep a word document with internet sources
• 50 INDEX CARDS 4x6 or larger
• Due Tuesday, 9/11