ChronicleOnline: 9/11 – Learning 9/11 history
ChronicleOnline: 9/11 – Learning 9/11 history
By Shemir Wiles, Citrus County Chronicle, September 11, 2011
Many of the students sitting in Carol Nicholas’ 8th-grade American History class at Crystal River Middle School Thursday morning were only three years old the day America was rocked to its core by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
While the raw emotions and frightening images of that day 10 years ago remain etched in the minds of countless Americans, Nicholas’ students barely recall anything except for the photos they have seen and the recollections of others they have heard through the years.
“Really, many of them are too young to really know what happened,” she said.
For Nicholas, teaching a lesson on Sept. 11 bears tremendous importance because she said it is important for her students to learn the value of what happened in the past to gain a better understanding of their future.
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