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9/11 -- Remember, Recover, Rebuild
Remembrance
For Kids
For Parents
For Further Study:
Afghanistan and The Middle East
Islam
Terrorism
Recommended Reading
Remembrance
9/11/01 - MSNBC
http://www.msnbc.com/news/aaattacks_front.asp
Provides a multimedia archive of the events of September 11th and after.
911 As History - Families & Work Institute
http://www.familiesandwork.org/911ah/911ashistory.html
Offers educational tools including, curricula, reading resources, and tips for educators, parents, and students.
9-11: One Year Later - Santa Clara County Office of Education
http://www.sccoe.k12.ca.us/features/9-11oneyearlater
A compilation of resources and links to assist educators as they plan for September 11, 2002.
America Remembers - CNN Special
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2002/america.remembers
A chronological library of September 11th and its aftermath. Includes images, sounds, and analysis of the tragic events.
Internet Remembrance Campaign
http://remember.worldatwar.org
Web site offers images, poems, music, and stories from people from all walks of life.
One Year Later: Remembering September 11, 2001 - American Red Cross
http://www.nyredcross.org/wtcrecovery/oneyearlater_teachers.htm
A thoughtful site, offers tips for teachers in dealing with their students on the coming one year anniversary of 9/11.
Remember September 11 - National Education Association: Health Information Network
An educational resource that includes essays, lesson plans, and news.
For Kids
ABCNEWS4KIDS:
America
Attacked
http://abcnews.go.com/ABCNEWS4KIDS/story/wtc/wtc_kids_main.html
Kid-oriented
description of what happened, who may have done it, how people have helped
survivors, and what is being done to make sure it never happens again.
Dealing With a
Terrorist
Tragedy
http://kidshealth.org/misc_pages/K_squarebanner.html
Find
some tips with how to cope with your feelings and learn what you can do to help
from kidshealth.org.
Kidsnewsroom's
Weekly News For
Kids
http://www.kidsnewsroom.com/newsissues/091401/index.asp
Kid
Style news for Kid Style people. Weekly news from the Nation and Around the
World.
Time for
Kids:Coping with America's
Tragedy
http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/specials/0,6709,174727,00.html
The
weekly news magazine featuring current news just for kids.
Scholastic:America
Under
Attack
http://teacher.scholastic.com/newszone/specialreports/under_attack/index.htm
The
latest news and support for parents, teachers and students from
Scholastic.
How Kids Can
Help
http://www.libertyunites.org/kids.adp
Find ways you can help out
the families and friends of victims.
The Betsy Ross
Homepage
http://www.ushistory.org/betsy/index.html
What does the
American flag mean to you? What do the colors mean? Betsy Ross sewed the first
American flag. When we view the flag, we think of liberty, freedom, pride, and
Betsy Ross. The American flag flies on the moon, sits atop Mount Everest, is
hurtling out in space. The flag is how America signs her name. Includes
information about Betsy Ross flag trivia and etiquetts and frequently asked
questions about the flag.
Life After
9.11
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/features/after911/index.html
Special
news stories and updates for students.
For Parents
Advice on Talking to Children about Disasters - American Academy of Pediatrics
http://www.aap.org/advocacy/releases/disastercomm.htm
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) offers advice on how to communicate with children
and adolescents during times of crisis.
Helping Children Cope with
Disaster
http://www.lumc.edu/rmch/child/Disaster.htm
A child's
reaction to disaster by age - from the Ronald McDonald Children's
Hospital.
How to Talk
With Your Kids About the
Tragedy
http://www.pbs.org/dragontales/caregivers/about/sept11.html
A
special update from Sesame Workshop.
NASP: Helping Children Cope With Tuesday's Acts of Terrorism
http://www.nasponline.org/NEAT/terrorism.html
Offers tips for parents and teachers on how to help children cope with tragedy.
NEA: Uniting Behind Our Children
http://www.nea.org/01crisis.html
Site provides a forum to share stories and to learn different coping strategies.
Resources to Help Teens, Parents, and Teachers -American Library Association
http://www.ala.org/yalsa/professional/traglist.html
Resources to help teens, parents, and teachers deal with the tragic events of September 11th.
What Can You
Say to Your
Kids?
http://www.cbc.ca/news/indepth/usattacked/talktokids.html
Tips
for parents from CBC News.
For Further Study:
Islam
100 Questions and Answers About Arab Americans - Detroit Free Press
http://www.freep.com/jobspage/arabs.htm
"Althought the Arab culture is one of the oldest on Earth, it is, in many parts of the United States, misunderstood. There are no easy, one-size-fits-all-answers.
Culture, language, and religion are distinct qualities that act in different ways to connect Arabs, and to distinguish them from one another." This page attempts to
reduce our ignorance.
Al-Islam
http://www.al-islam.org
Beliefs, history, common misconceptions, and current events - including condemnations of terrorism.
Islam 101
http://www.islam101.com
"[A]n introductory course on Islam and Islamic views on contemporary issues." With vast resources, such as sacred writings, biographical material about
Muhammad, lists of other famous Muslims, Islamic art, and discussions of the incongruity of terrorism with this faith.
Islam: Empire of Faith
http://www.pbs.org/empires/islam
Islamic art, architecture, literature, and science as well as religious tenets, history (with a timeline), and much more from
the Public Broadcasting System's series.
The Islamic Calendar for North America
http://www.moonsighting.com/calendar.html
Each month of the Islamic calendar starts the night when the new moon is visible without the assistance of instruments such as telescopes.
Throughout the world, then, residents of different regions use different calendar dates for celebrations. This site provides a calculator.
Islamic Center of America
http://www.icofa.com
An introduction to the faith, the Qu'ran online, recommended readings, links, and more.
Islamic Server
http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA
Sacred texts; definitions of terms; and discussions of topics, such as women in Islam, criticism of the Nation of islam and other denominations,
and Muslim economics.
Muslim Life in America
http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/muslimlife/homepage.htm
"This Web site is an attempt to capture in photographs, words, and statistics something of the
extraordinary range and richness of ordinary Muslim life in this country" with demographics, prayers, information about daily living, reactions
to the events of September 11, and much more.
Nation of Islam
http://www.noi.org
Statements include The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan's discussions of the
World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks.
What is Ramadan and When Does it Begin?
http://www.arches.uga.edu/~godlas/practices.html#Fasting
Essential elements of observance and the significance of this holy period.
Islamic Naming Structure
http://www.domainfellow.com/Names/IslNamStruc.asp
Answers to questions such as what the "bin" in Osama bin Laden's name means (it denotes "son of").
Afghanistan and The Middle East
Afghanistan - CIA's World Factbook
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/af.html
Afghanistan Maps
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/afghanistan/maps.htm
Afghanistan Online
http://www.afghan-web.com
The Center for Middle Eastern Studies - University of Texas
http://menic.utexas.edu/menic/islam.html
Middle East Research & Information Project
http://www.merip.org
Terrorism
Alternative Resources on the U.S. War Against Terrorism
http://www.pitt.edu/~ttwiss/irtf/Alternative.html
America's War Against Terrorism - University of Michigan
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/usterror.html
How Stuff Works: September 11, 2001
http://www.howstuffworks.com/sept-eleven.htm
Legislation Related to the Attack of September 11, 2001
http://thomas.loc.gov/home/terrorleg.htm
Resources Relating to the Events of September 11, 2001
http://www.freepint.com/gary/91101.html
Robert Maxwell Young: Fundamentalism & Terrorism
http://www.psychematters.com/papers/young2.htm
September 11: Terrorist Attack on America
http://www.academicinfo.com/usa911.html
Terrorism and U.S. Policy - The National Security Archive
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB55/index1.html
Terrorism Law and Policy - Jurist
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/terrorism.htm
Terrorism Research Center Inc.
http://www.terrorism.com/index.shtml
Recommended Reading
Biological Warfare:
Stack 3: 614.561094743 G945an
Anthrax: The Investigation of a Deadly Outbreak by Jeanne Guillemin (University of California Press, 1999)
Bus. Sci. & Tech. Ref. and Stack 2: 358.3 B523
Biological Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction edited by Gary E. McCuen (G.E. McCuen Publications, 1999)
Bus. Sci. & Tech. Ref., Stack 2, and branches: 358.38 M615ge
Germs: Biological Weapons & America's Secret War by Judith Miller, Stephen Engelberg, and William Broad (Simon and Schuster, 2001)
Bus. Sci. & Tech. Ref. and Stack 3: 616.9 M7859kil
Killer Germs: Rogue Diseases of the Twenty-First Century by Pete Moore (Carlton, 2001)
Stack 2 and branches: 358.38 Os74li
Living Terrors: What America Needs to Know to Survive the Coming Bio-Terrorist Catastrophe by Mike Osterholm and John Schwartz (Delacorte Press, 2000)
Stack 2: 358.38 M314pl
Plague Wars: A True Story of Biological Warfare by Tom Mangold and Jeff Goldberg (St. Martin's Press, 2000)
Coping:
Bus. Sci. & Tech. Ref. 618.89 H13
Caring for the Mind: The Comprehensive Guide to Mental Health by Dianne Hales and Robert E. Hales (Bantam Books, 1995)
Bus. Sci. & Tech. Ref. and Stack 3: 616.8521 M42
I Can't Get Over It: A Handbook for Trauma Survivors by Aphrodite Matsakis (New Harbinger Pub., 1992)
Stack 3: 649.1 C719pa
Parenting Through Crisis: Helping Kids in Times of Loss, Grief, and Change by Barbara Coloroso (Harper Resource, 2000)
Stack 1: 155.9 C84
Staying on Top When your World Turns Upside Down by Kathryn D. Cramer (Viking, 1990)
Bus. Sci. & Tech. Ref. and Stack 3: 616.8521 P83st
Straight Talk About Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Coping with the Aftermath of Trauma by Kay Marie Porterfield (Facts on File, 1996)
Stack 3: 616.8521 H785st
Stress Response Syndromes: PTSD, Grief, and Adjustment Disorders by Mardi Jon Horowitz (J. Aronson, 1997)
Grief:
Stack 1: 155.937 Sh474dy
Dying: A Guide for Helping and Coping by Martin Shepard (The Permanent Press, 2000)
Stack 1: 155.937081 M525
Men Coping with Grief edited by Dale A. Lund (Baywood Pub. Co., 2000)
Stack 2: 393 J15re
R.I.P.: The Complete Book of Death and Dying by Constance Jones (HarperCollins Pub., 1997)
Stack 4: 811 R179
A Woman's Book Of Grieving by Nessa Rapoport (W. Morrow, 1994)
Arts & Hum. Ref. 155.937 F91yo
You Can Help Someone Who's Grieving: A How-to-Healing Handbook by Victoria Frigo, Diane Fisher, and Mary Lou Cook (Penguin Books, 1996)
Islam:
Arts & Hum. Ref. 297 G65 2001
Islam: Matthew S. Gordon (Facts On File, 2001)
Stack 1: 297 M325is
Islam by Ruqaiyyah Maqsood (NTC Pub. Group, 1994)
Arts & Hum. Ref. 297 B73is
Islam: Its Prophet, Peoples, Politics, and Power by George W. Braswell, Jr. (Broadman & Holman, 1996 )
Arts & Hum. Ref. 297 Es6 1998
Islam: The Straight Path by John L. Esposito (Oxford University Press, 1998)
Arts & Hum. Ref. 297 M97
The Muslim Almanac edited by Azim Nanji (Gale Research, 1995)
Stack 1: 297 Z49mu
A Muslim Primer: Beginner's Guide to Islam by Ira G. Zepp (University of Arkansas Press, 2000)
Arts & Hum. Ref., Stack 1, and branches: 297 L66 1995
Understanding Islam: An Introduction to the Muslim World by Thomas W. Lippman (Meridian, 1995)
Arts & Hum. Ref. 297 M93
The Vision of Islam by Sachiko Murata and William C. Chittick (Paragon House, 1994)
Islam and Politics:
Bus. Sci. & Tech. Ref. and Stack 1: 327.73017 G314am
America and Political Islam: Clash of Cultures or Clash of Interests? by Fawaz A. Gerges (Cambridge University Press, 1999)
Stack 1: 320.550917671 T435ch
The Challenge of Fundamentalism: Political Islam and the New World Disorder by Bassam Tibi (University of California Press, 1998)
Bus. Sci. & Tech. Ref. and Stack 1: 320.550917671 D281is
Islamic Fundamentalism by Lawrence Davidson (Greenwood Press, 1998)
Stack 1: 327.0917671 Es65is 1999
The Islamic Threat: Myth or Reality by John L. Esposito (Oxford University Press, 1999)
Stack 1: 320.550917 P7594
Political Islam: Revolution, Radicalism, or Reform? edited by John L. Esposito (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1997)
Islam in the United States:
297.0973 Sm689is
Islam in America by Jane I. Smith (Columbia University Press, 1999)
Stack 1: 297.0973 M974
Muslims on the Americanization Path? edited by Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad and John Esposito (Oxford University Press, 2000)
Afr. Amer. Rm Ref. 297 N91 1989
What every American Should Know About Islam & the Muslims by Muhammad Armiya Nu'Man (New Mind Productions, 1995)
Black Muslims:
Stack 1: 297.08996073 M132af
African American Islam by Aminah Beverly McCloud (Routledge, 1995)
Arts & Hum. Ref. 297.87 G164in
In the Name of Elijah Muhammad: Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam by Mattias Gardell (Duke University Press, 1996)
Arts & Hum. Ref. and Stack 1: 297.87 D355ma
Malcolm and the Cross: the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X, and Christianity by Louis A. DeCaro, Jr. (New York University Press, 1998)
Bus. Sci. & Tech. Ref. 323.1196073 X1msh
Malcolm X: Speeches at Harvard edited by Archie Epps (Paragon House, 1991)
Afr. Amer. Rm. Ref. 297.87 El4th
The Theology of Time by The Honorable Elijah Muhammad (U.B. & U.S. Communications Systems, 1992)
Terrorism:
Bus. Sci. & Tech. Ref. and branches: Stack 1: 303.625 H671in
Inside Terrorism by Bruce Hoffman (Columbia University Press, 1998)
Stack 1 and branches: 303.625 Or45
Origins of Terrorism: Psychologies, Ideologies, Theologies, States of Mind edited by Walter Reich (International Center for Scholars, 1998)
Bus. Sci. & Tech. Ref. 303.625 H383ter
Terrorism: Library in a Book by Harry Henderson (Facts on File, 2001)
Bus. Sci. & Tech. Ref and Stack 2: 363.32 T2785
Terrorism: Opposing Viewpoints edited by Laura K. Egendorf (Greenhaven Press, 2000)
Bus. Sci. & Tech. Ref and branches: 303.625 Al277us
Usama Bin Laden's Al-Qaida: Profile of a Terrorist Network by Yonah Alexander (Transnational Publishers, 2001)
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