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What links these pictures?

Show the pictures, using

> Slide 3: montage of six small photographs

or> Slide 4: a looped slideshow

or> Slides 5–10: one photograph per slide

What links these pictures?

What links these pictures?

What links these six pictures?

Click to play slideshow of six images, three times through.

Or click twice to skip slideshow.

> Now focus on some of the people involved. See what we can learn from their actions.

Photos – in depth

Who is this? What was his job?

What was he doing when he first heard the news of the attacks?

Who are these people?Why are they running and some covering their heads?

Who are these people? What are they doing?

Who is this, and where is he?

Where is this? What is happening?

Where is this soldier sitting, and why?

> Write captions for each of the photographs in the sequence. Use the form of newspaper headlines. Look at the results. What story do they tell about the way people deal with adversity?

> Carry out a survey of parents, friends or adults in the local community. How many can remember what they were doing when they first heard of the 9/11 attacks? What was their immediate reaction? Can they point to any way that life has been changed by those events?

> Research one or more of the different memorial sites, completed or planned at the three sites of the plane crashes. What choices did the designers make? What were they trying to achieve? Find something unusual or particularly thoughtful about the design to report back.

Follow-up activities

Photo captions and credits Photo 1 US President George W Bush has his early morning school reading event interupted by his Chief of Staff Andrew Card shortly after news of the New York City airplane crashes.

© Paul J Richards/AFP/Getty ImagesPhoto 2 Workers in the area around the World Trade Centre buildings in New York, scrambling for cover to avoid the debris showering from the damaged tower.

© David Handschuh/NY Daily News Archive via Getty ImagesPhoto 3 Firefighters resting on the pavement opposite the World Trade Centre collapse site.

© Beth A Keiser/AFP/Getty ImagesPhoto 4 An anti-Taliban soldier with his machine gun in the Tora Bora region of Afghanistan.

© Chris Hondros/Getty ImagesPhoto 5 Passengers' carry-on bags are being checked by security staff and national guards at Los Angeles airport. © Nick Ut - Pool/Getty ImagesPhoto 6 A soldier at the Pentagon Memorial, built to commemorate the 184 people who died at the site.

© Matt McClain/For The Post via Getty Images

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This resource was written by PJ White and produced in August 2011.The British Red Cross Society is a charity registered in England and Wales (220949) and Scotland (SCO37738).