[ABCDE] Volume 1, Issue 3 Sept. 18, 2001 CURRICULUM GUIDE: MEDIA IN THE TIME OF TRAGEDY e r I n E d u c a p a p t i o w s n P N e r o t g s r a P o m n t o g i n h s T a h e W C e u h r T r i f c u O l u e r m o C A t e T h h T e t C A o r m KLMNO e u l O u An Integrated Curriculum c f i r Resource Program T r h u e C W e a h s T h i n g t o n P m o a s r t g N o r e P w s n p o a i p t a e c r u I d n E IN THIS ISSUE Dealing with Terrorism Use the Newspaper Word Study 39Web resources for coping 6 Activities for your class A look at terrorism First Rough Draft of History Write an Editorial Finding the 4 Then and now 8 What symbols mean 10 Local Angle © 2001 The Washington Post Company An Integrated Curriculum For The Washington Post Newspaper In Education Program KLMNO Volume 1, Issue 3 Sept. 18, 2001 Dear Educators: This Web site, still in its infancy, is devoted to bringing newspaper-related classroom curriculum to educators. Last Tuesday’s tragic acts of terrorism have prompted us to add a special resource to the site today. Designed to help teachers and publications advisers, the following collection of activities, lesson plans and resources are meant to use these unprecedented acts in the American experience to teach students how such colossal tragedy is handled in the media. We hope that the following pages are instructional as well as thought provoking. The newspaper continues to be a reliable source to relay facts. Part of our mission through The Washington Post’s Newspaper In Education program is to help you use newspapers to illustrate real-life applications of learning. We hope these lessons will help you use The Post to guide schoolchildren through this crisis and eventually to help them process this national disaster as a learning experience. As the nation absorbs the shock, fear and sadness of last week’s events, students might need extra help with coping and processing this national tragedy. As adults and educators, our role in reestablishing a sense of safety and security in our schools is a priority. Children will look to us for information and guidance on how to react and understand the national events as they unfold. Within this special resource, we have included the Web addresses for various sites that provide additional information to help students cope with the uncertainty of these events and the consequences such terror dictates. The Educational Services Department of The Washington Post 2 © 2001 The Washington Post Company An Integrated Curriculum For The Washington Post Newspaper In Education Program KLMNO Volume 1, Issue 3 Sept. 18, 2001 Dealing with Terrorism With Respect and Sensitivity How to Cope and Heal It is our business to report the news. We have found the ON THE WEB http://www.sesameworkshop.org/par- words and taken the pictures to fulfill our professional ents/advice/article/0,4125,49560,00.ht http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/vio commitment to you. We also want to be a good neighbor. ml lence.cfm Tuesday’s unimaginable acts of horror touch us all. Images Tragic Times, Healing Words of the terrorist attacks and aftermath are in all media and Helping Children and Adolescents Cope The Sesame Street Workshop provides in our conversations. We witness families, friends and with Violence and Disasters guidelines for adults. neighbors of individuals who lost their lives in New York The National Institute of Mental Health City, Pennsylvania and Virginia grieving. This is an provides information about the impact of www.fema.gov/kids emotional time for adults. It can be a very frightening time violence and disasters on children and sug- for children. gestions for minimizing long-term emo- FEMA for Kids tional harm. Although most of this site explains natural Area school systems and media, sensitive to the disasters so children can emotional impact of these events and coverage on http://www.apa.org/ understand them and prepare for them, children, have provided adults with guidelines for listening the What’s New section talks to kids about to and talking with children of all ages in times of loss, American Psychological Association the recent terrorist attacks. Younger stu- violence and disaster. You may wish to check their Web A special section, The Nation in Shock: dents are given advice by Herman, the sites. On the Web sites listed here mental health Managing the Traumatic Stress of spokescrab. professionals share what is known about the impact of Tuesday’s Terrorism, has been added. The disasters on children and suggest ways to help children to section includes guidelines for handling www.kidshealth.com cope and to heal. the special needs of children. KidsHealth KidsPost has provided news of our national tragedy and http://www.childrenshomesociety.org/ Parents, kids and teens have sections to examples of bravery for our young readers. Articles in the enter to hear from the medical Post and online discussions have reminded adults not to Children’s Home Society of Washington experts of The Nemours Foundation. A neglect our responsibility to our children. They all stress Tips for talking to children about tragedy special "Dealing With a Terrorist the importance of listening, loving and helping others. are presented by the Children’s Home Tragedy" has been added with articles for Society of Washington. Common ques- Dr. Stanley Greenspan, M.D., clinical professor of all three age groups. tions asked by children and suggested psychiatry, George Washington University Medical School, answers are included. Signs of stress and in a washingtonpost.com online discussion, provided this www.nea.org other resources give parents and teachers advice. (More of Dr. Greenspan’s answers to questions helpful information. The National Education Association posed can be found at "Tips for Caregivers" (PDF) is the effort of http://discuss.washingtonpost.com/wp- http://www.mentalhealth.org/cmhs/e several national educational organizations srv/zforum/01/nation_greenspan0912.htm.) mergencyservices/index.htm united to assist parents and teachers in helping children. You may also go to the "[T]he understanding of terrorism has to be geared to the Disaster Mental Health Services American Federation of Teachers child's age and level of thinking and language. For a very This branch of the U.S. Department of (www.aft.org), National PTA young child, it can be explained in very simple terms — Health & Human Services is located in (www.pta.org) and National Association like explaining that someone did something very very bad. Rockville, Md. When the president of School Psychologists (www.naspon- For a school age child, you can begin having a discussion declares a disaster, the Center for Mental line.org) sites. NEA plans to rebroadcast that is a bit more complex but not too complex. It should Health Services provides support to indi- its Safe Schools Now series in fall 2001. be discussed in two contexts simultaneously. In terms of viduals and communities. Click on Tips VHS copies of the nine episodes are avail- the fundamental wrongness of actions that take other For Talking About Disasters and check able for sale. people's lives, but also in terms of the longer term goals out Mental Health Aspects of Terrorism, to help all people around the world resolve conflict How to Help Children After a Disaster through negotiation and problem solving, not violence. and After a Disaster: What Teens Can Do. Even younger children can be helped to see the importance of problem solving." 3 © 2001 The Washington Post Company An Integrated Curriculum For The Washington Post Newspaper In Education Program KLMNO Volume 1, Issue 3 Sept. 18, 2001 Today’s First Rough Draft of History Lesson: Use the newspaper approaching the Twin to understand terrorist Towers of the World Trade attacks Center in New York City. Exercises Level: Advanced Smoke is billowing from the a. Read the five articles that appeared on the front page North Tower that had been of the Sept. 12 Post. Summarize each article. Do they Subjects: History, Language hit at 8:45 a.m. by hijacked Arts, Journalism American Airlines Flight 11. capture the facts of the hijackings and aftermath? News stories can help Three other photographs Beyond the facts, what understanding do you gain as students to understand the appeared below the fold. a reader? Together, what do the five articles Headlines above the five attack, the destruction and communicate about events from 8:45 a.m. Tuesday the response of our citizens articles were: morning until press time? and government. 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