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1 9/11 Timeline Lesson Directions In this cooperative learning timeline activity, your students will be divided up into groups to recreate the chaos of events that took place September 11, 2001 across various parts of the country. Teacher Directions: 1. Prior to class beginning, cut up each set of the 7 sets timelines and place into an envelope with the title on it (pages 2-10): a. American Airlines Flight 11 b. United Airlines Flight 175 c. American Airlines Flight 77 d. United Airlines Flight 93 e. President Bush f. The World Trade Center Towers g. The Pentagon 2. Begin class with the PowerPoint warm up. 3. Divide your class into 7 heterogeneous groups and give each group one of the envelopes. 4. Allow 10 minutes for each group to read through and place their events in order. 5. Begin the PowerPoint and have each group read what happened when the appropriate time comes up. Each time you click, the next time will appear. (Note: You can also use the included videos at the appropriate times. I did not embed them in the PowerPoint as I think they sometimes break up the flow of the discussion) 6. Pages include each group s events in order for you to follow along and lead the discussion. 7. Hold a class discussion about how chaotic and frightening the day was with how quickly all the events occurred. Allow students to ask questions and express their feelings. 8. Introduce the Interview Assignment (p. 17) and after having gone through the day, have students develop their own interview questions in addition to the ones included. 9. Assign the interview and allow students an appropriate amount of time to conduct them and share what they learned with their groups and the class. (I usually allow a week to ensure that everyone had enough time to find someone to interview.) 1 Students of History -

2 American Airlines Flight 11 6:45 a.m. At Logan Airport in Boston, three of the five hijackers from American Airlines Flight 11 are selected by CAPPS (Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System) which identifies passengers subject to special security measures. Their luggage is held off the plane briefly but they are permitted to board. 7:59 a.m. American Airlines Flight 11 departs Logan International Airport en route to Los Angeles International Airport. The plane is carrying 81 passengers, two pilots and nine flight attendants. 8:15 a.m. Five al-qaeda terrorists stab 2 flight attendants and slash the throat of passenger Daniel Lewin, who had served as an officer in the elite Sayeret Matkal unit of the Israeli military. It is believed he was stabbed after he attempted to stop the hijacking. 8:19 a.m. Mohammad Atta, ringleader of the attacks, takes the flight s controls and a flight attendant alerts American Airlines of a hijacking in progress. 8:33 a.m. The hijacker at the controls tries to make an announcement to the passengers but presses the wrong button and sends the message to Boston air traffic control: Nobody move please, we are going back to the airport, don't try to make any stupid moves. 8:46 a.m. American Airlines Flight 11 crashes at a speed of roughly 470 mph into the north side of the North Tower of the World Trade Center, between floors 93 and 99. The impact of the crash incinerates everything in its way, including wallboards, filing cabinets and computers. 2

3 7:40 a.m. United Airlines Flight 175 United Flight 175 boards at Logan Airport, but none of the 5 hijackers are stopped or searched. 8:14 a.m. United Airlines Flight 175 departs 14 minutes late from Logan Airport en route to Los Angeles. The plane is carrying 56 passengers, two pilots and seven flight attendants. 8:45 a.m. The flight is taken over by five hijackers who use knives, mace, and the threat of a bomb. Two terrorists kill the pilots and divert the plane to New York City while 3 others move passengers and crew to the back of the plane. 8:58 a.m. Passenger Brian David Sweeney tried calling his wife using a GTE airphone, but ended up leaving a message. He then called his parents and told his mother that passengers were considering storming the cockpit and taking control of the aircraft. 9:00 a.m. Passenger Peter Hanson makes a call to his father: It's getting bad, Dad. A stewardess was stabbed. They said they have a bomb. Passengers are throwing up and getting sick. The plane is making jerky movements. I think they intend to go to Chicago or someplace and fly into a building. Don't worry, Dad. If it happens, it'll be very fast...oh my God... 9:03 a.m. Flight 175 crashes into the southern facade of South Tower of the World Trade Center traveling at approximately 586 mph and striking between floors 77 and 85 with approximately 10,000 gallons of jet fuel on board. 3 Students of History -

4 American Airlines Flight 77 7:15 a.m. At Washington Dulles Airport, two of the five hijakers set off the metal detector but move through secondary screening after being searched with a hand wand. 8:20 a.m. Flight 77 departs 10 minutes late from Washington Dulles Airport en route to Los Angeles. The plane is carrying 58 passengers, two pilots and four flight attendants. 8:54 a.m. Flight 77 is hijacked by five terrorists using knives and box cutters to enter the cockpit. The plane is diverted toward Washington, D.C. 9:12 a.m. Flight attendant Renee May calls her mother in Las Vegas and said her flight was being hijacked by six individuals and the passengers had been moved to the rear of the plane. 09:26 a.m. Passenger Barbara Olson called her husband, Solicitor General Ted Olson and reported that the plane had been hijacked with box cutters and knives. She reported that the passengers, and possibly the crew, had been moved to the back of the plane and that the hijackers were unaware of her call. A minute into the conversation, the call was cut off. Theodore Olson contacted the command center at the Department of Justice. 9:37 a.m. Flight 77 crashes into the southwestern side of the Pentagon in Arlington, Va. All on board are killed, as are 125 Pentagon personnel. 4

5 United Airlines Flight 93 7:36 a.m. At Newark Liberty Airport in New Jersey, one of the 4 hijackers is selected by security for extra screening. His bag is screened for explosives but he is not stopped. 8:42 a.m. Flight 93 departs 42 minutes late due to runway congestion at Newark Airport en route to San Francisco. The plane is carrying 37 passengers, two pilots and five flight attendants. 9:23 a.m. Flight 93 receives a warning from flight dispatch, Beware any cockpit intrusion - two aircraft hit World Trade Center. 9:28 a.m. United Airlines Flight 93 is hijacked. A crew member in the cockpit began shouting, Mayday! Mayday! Mayday! over the radio amidst sounds of violence. Thirty-five seconds after the first Mayday call, the crew, someone in the cockpit shouted, Mayday! Get out of here! Get out of here! 9:32 a.m. A hijacker transmits a message to what he believes to be only the passengers, but is overheard by air traffic control: Ladies and gentlemen, here the captain, please sit down, keep remaining sitting. We have a bomb on board. So sit. 9:33 a.m. Tom Burnett calls to his wife and says that a passenger was stabbed but he believed the bomb threat was fake to control the passengers. His wife informs him of the attacks on the World Trade Center and he replies that the hijackers were talking about crashing this plane... it s a suicide mission. He ended his call by saying, Don't worry, we're going to do something. 5 Students of History -

6 9:38 a.m. Jeremy Glick calls his wife and tells her the flight was hijacked by three dark-skinned men wearing red bandanas and wielding knives. Glick remains connected for the rest of the flight and told his wife that the passengers voted whether to rush the hijackers 9:50 a.m. Flight attendant Sandra Bradshaw calls her husband and tells him she is preparing scalding water to throw at the hijackers. 9:55 a.m. Passenger Elizabeth Wainio calls her stepmother and concludes, four and a half minutes later, by saying, "I have to go. Everyone is running up to first class. They're breaking into the cockpit. I love you. 10:00 a.m. In the cockpit, a hijacker says They want to get in here. Hold, hold from the inside. The cockpit voice recorder captured the sounds of crashing, screaming, and shattering of glass. A hijacker asks, Is that it? Shall we finish it off? Another hijacker responds, No. Not yet. When they all come, we finish... The hijacker at the controls pitches the airplane up and down. A passenger in the background cries, In the cockpit. If we don't, we'll die! 10:02 a.m. A passenger yells, "Roll it! and the passengers continue their assault while a hijacker says, "Pull it down! Pull it down! The plane rolls onto its back, and one of the hijackers began shouting the takbir. Amidst the sounds of the passenger counterattack, the aircraft plowed into an empty field in Stonycreek, Pennsylvania about 20 minutes' flying time from Washington, D.C. 6

7 President George W. Bush 6:31 a.m. President Bush begins his early morning run in Sarasota, Florida with several of his staffers. 8:56 a.m. As part of a scheduled visit to promote his education policy, President George W. Bush enters a classroom at Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida. Bush is aware that a commercial airliner has struck the North Tower of the World Trade Center, but continues his scheduled visit. 9:05 a.m. As President Bush begins to read with the students at Booker Elementary, Chief of Staff Andrew Card interrupts to whisper to him, A second plane hit the second tower, America is under attack. President Bush continues the lesson for another five to seven minutes, rather than alarm the students. 9:15 a.m. President Bush leaves the classroom at Booker Elementary School and is brought to a secure room where he is briefed by staff and watches television coverage of the tragedy unfolding in New York City. 9:30 a.m. President Bush makes his first public statements about the tragedy to teachers and students at the elementary school. He tells them "we've had a national tragedy" and that he will be returning to Washington, D.C. immediately. He then leads a moment of silence. 11:45 a.m. President Bush makes a brief statement from Barksdale Air Force Base in Shreveport, La., saying that freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward and freedom will be defended." He adds, "The United States will hunt down and punish those responsible for these cowardly acts. 7 Students of History -

8 The World Trade Center Towers 8:46 a.m. Flight 11 crashes at roughly 466 mph into the north face of the North Tower of the World Trade Center, between floors 93 and 99. 8:49 a.m. An announcement over the public-address system in the South Tower states that the incident has occurred in the other building and advises tenants that their building is safe and they should return to their offices or floors. Some don't hear the announcement, others ignore it and evacuate anyway, while others congregate in common areas like the 78th floor sky lobby. 9:02 a.m. Flight 175 crashes at about 590 mph into the south face of the South Tower of the World Trade Center, between floors 77 and 85. 9:11 a.m. Over the next 45 minutes, at least 200 people, primarily in the North Tower, trapped by fire and smoke in the upper floors, jump to their deaths 9:32 a.m. NYPD calls in all off-duty police officers while the NYFD issues a department-wide recall, which orders all off-duty fire-fighters back to work. 9:59 a.m. After burning for approximately 56 minutes from the impact of Flight 175, the South Tower of the World Trade Center collapses in 10 seconds, covering lower Manhattan in a gray-white cloud of dust and debris. 8

9 10:01 a.m. Moments after the South Tower fell, Chief J. Pfeifer (inside of North Tower) says on the radio to all firemen, at least twice, Evacuate the building. 10:21 a.m. NYPD Inspector Terri Tobin was buried in the rubble with a glass pane lodged in her back and cinder block cut on her skull. She rose from the debris and rescued injured people who were in a panic. She clung mightily to one severely injured man's arm and said: I'm with the NYPD. I'm not gonna let go. 10:28 a.m. As if being split down the center, the North Tower of the World Trade Center collapses from the top down. This second collapse is also viewed live on television and heard on radio. 10:33 a.m. Lieutenant Mickey Kross of the NYFD is in stairwell B on the fourth floor of the north tower when it collapses, but still leads 14 people, mostly firefighters, to safety. 1:32 p.m. Pasquale Buzzelli, a structural engineer for the Port Authority wakes up on a pile of rubble of the North Tower. He was descending down from the 64th floor and got to the 22nd floor when the tower collapsed. He was knocked unconscious for three hours, and awoke on a hill of rubble, looking at the sky. 9 Students of History -

10 The Pentagon 9:37 a.m. Flight 77 crashes into the southwestern side of the Pentagon in Arlington, Va. All on board are killed, as are 125 Pentagon personnel. 9:39 a.m. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld feels the Pentagon shake from his office on the opposite side of the complex. He rushes outside and helps fleeing survivors. 9:42 a.m. Truck 105 of the Arlington County Fire Department is the first rescue squad to arrive the Pentagon's South Parking lot. 10:04 a.m. Rescue workers pull out the last survivors of the Pentagon attack just minutes before it collapses. 10:10 a.m. A large section of the west side of the Pentagon collapses. The entire US Navy Command Center has been knocked out. 1:27 p.m. Washington, D.C., Mayor Anthony A. Williams declares a state of emergency and the National Guard is deployed onto the streets of Washington. 10

11 6:31 a.m. Full timeline President Bush begins his early morning run in Sarasota, Florida with several of his staffers. 6:45 a.m. At Logan Airport in Boston, three of the five hijackers from American Airlines Flight 11 are selected by CAPPS (Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System) which identifies passengers subject to special security measures. Their luggage is held off the plane briefly but they are permitted to board. 7:15 a.m. At Washington Dulles Airport, two of the five hijakers set off the metal detector but move through secondary screening after being searched with a hand wand. 7:36 a.m. At Newark Liberty Airport in New Jersey, one of the 4 hijackers is selected by security for extra screening. His bag is screened for explosives but he is not stopped. 7:40 a.m. United Flight 175 boards at Logan Airport, but none of the 5 hijackers are stopped or searched. 7:59 a.m. American Airlines Flight 11 departs Logan International Airport en route to Los Angeles International Airport. The plane is carrying 81 passengers, two pilots and nine flight attendants. 8:14 a.m. United Airlines Flight 175 departs 14 minutes late from Logan Airport en route to Los Angeles. The plane is carrying 56 passengers, two pilots and seven flight attendants. 8:15 a.m. Five al-qaeda terrorists stab 2 flight attendants and slash the throat of passenger Daniel Lewin, who had served as an officer in the elite Sayeret Matkal unit of the Israeli military. It is believed he was stabbed after he attempted to stop the hijacking. 8:19 a.m. Mohammad Atta, ringleader of the attacks, takes the flight s controls and a flight attendant alerts American Airlines of a hijacking in progress. 11 Students of History -

12 8:20 a.m. Flight 77 departs 10 minutes late from Washington Dulles Airport en route to Los Angeles. The plane is carrying 58 passengers, two pilots and four flight attendants. 8:33 a.m. The hijacker at the controls tries to make an announcement to the passengers but presses the wrong button and sends the message to Boston air traffic control: Nobody move please, we are going back to the airport, don't try to make any stupid moves. 8:42 a.m. Flight 93 departs 42 minutes late due to runway congestion at Newark Airport en route to San Francisco. The plane is carrying 37 passengers, two pilots and five flight attendants. 8:45 a.m. The flight is taken over by five hijackers who use knives, mace, and the threat of a bomb. Two terrorists kill the pilots and divert the plane to New York City while 3 others move passengers and crew to the back of the plane. 8:46 a.m. American Airlines Flight 11 crashes at a speed of roughly 470 mph into the north side of the North Tower of the World Trade Center, between floors 93 and 99. The impact of the crash incinerates everything in its way, including wallboards, filing cabinets and computers. 8:49 a.m. An announcement over the public-address system in the South Tower states that the incident has occurred in the other building and advises tenants that their building is safe and they should return to their offices or floors. Some don't hear the announcement, others ignore it and evacuate anyway, while others congregate in common areas like the 78th floor sky lobby. 8:54 a.m. Flight 77 is hijacked by five terrorists using knives and box cutters to enter the cockpit. The plane is diverted toward Washington, D.C. 8:56 a.m. As part of a scheduled visit to promote his education policy, President George W. Bush enters a classroom at Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida. Bush is aware that a commercial airliner has struck the North Tower of the World Trade Center, but continues his scheduled visit. 8:58 a.m. Passenger Brian David Sweeney tried calling his wife using a GTE airphone, but ended up leaving a message. He then called his parents and told his mother that passengers were considering storming the cockpit and taking control of the aircraft. 12

13 9:00 a.m. Passenger Peter Hanson makes a call to his father: It's getting bad, Dad. A stewardess was stabbed. They said they have a bomb. Passengers are throwing up and getting sick. The plane is making jerky movements. I think they intend to go to Chicago or someplace and fly into a building. Don't worry, Dad. If it happens, it'll be very fast...oh my God... 9:02 a.m. Flight 175 crashes at about 590 mph (950 km/h) into the south face of the South Tower (2 WTC) of the World Trade Center, between floors 77 and 85. 9:03 a.m. Flight 175 crashes into the southern facade of South Tower of the World Trade Center traveling at approximately 586 mph and striking between floors 77 and 85 with approximately 10,000 gallons of jet fuel on board. 9:05 a.m. As President Bush begins to read with the students at Booker Elementary, Chief of Staff Andrew Card interrupts to whisper to him, A second plane hit the second tower, America is under attack. President Bush continues the lesson for another five to seven minutes, rather than alarm the students. 9:11 a.m. Over the next 45 minutes, at least 200 people, primarily in the North Tower, trapped by fire and smoke in the upper floors, jump to their deaths 9:12 a.m. Flight attendant Renee May calls her mother in Las Vegas and said her flight was being hijacked by six individuals and the passengers had been moved to the rear of the plane. 9:15 a.m. President Bush leaves the classroom at Booker Elementary School and is brought to a secure room where he is briefed by staff and watches television coverage of the tragedy unfolding in New York City. 9:23 a.m. Flight 93 receives a warning from flight dispatch, Beware any cockpit intrusion - two aircraft hit World Trade Center. 09:26 a.m. Passenger Barbara Olson called her husband, Solicitor General Ted Olson and reported that the plane had been hijacked with box cutters and knives. She reported that the passengers, and possibly the crew, had been moved to the back of the plane and that the hijackers were unaware of her call. A minute into the conversation, the call was cut off. Theodore Olson contacted the command center at the Department of Justice. 13 Students of History -

14 9:28 a.m. United Airlines Flight 93 is hijacked. A crew member in the cockpit began shouting, Mayday! Mayday! Mayday!" over the radio amidst sounds of violence. Thirty-five seconds after the first Mayday call, the crew, someone in the cockpit shouted, Mayday! Get out of here! Get out of here! 9:30 a.m. President Bush makes his first public statements about the tragedy to teachers and students at the elementary school. He tells them "we've had a national tragedy" and that he will be returning to Washington, D.C. immediately. He then leads a moment of silence. 9:32 a.m. NYPD calls in all off-duty police officers while the NYFD issues a department-wide recall, which orders all off-duty fire-fighters back to work. 9:32 a.m. A hijacker transmits a message to what he believes to be only the passengers, but is overheard by air traffic control: Ladies and gentlemen, here the captain, please sit down, keep remaining sitting. We have a bomb on board. So sit. 9:33 a.m. Tom Burnett calls to his wife and says that a passenger was stabbed but he believed the bomb threat was fake to control the passengers. His wife informs him of the attacks on the World Trade Center and he replies that the hijackers were talking about crashing this plane... it s a suicide mission. He ended his call by saying, Don't worry, we're going to do something. 9:37 a.m. Flight 77 crashes into the southwestern side of the Pentagon in Arlington, Va. All on board are killed, as are 125 Pentagon personnel. 9:38 a.m. Jeremy Glick calls his wife and tells her the flight was hijacked by three dark-skinned men wearing red bandanas and wielding knives. Glick remains connected for the rest of the flight and told his wife that the passengers voted whether to rush the hijackers 9:39 a.m. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld feels the Pentagon shake from his office on the opposite side of the complex. He rushes outside and helps fleeing survivors. 9:42 a.m. Truck 105 of the Arlington County Fire Department is the first rescue squad to arrive the Pentagon's South Parking lot. 14

15 9:50 a.m. Flight attendant Sandra Bradshaw calls her husband and tells him she is preparing scalding water to throw at the hijackers. 9:55 a.m. Passenger Elizabeth Wainio calls her stepmother and concludes, four and a half minutes later, by saying, "I have to go. Everyone is running up to first class. They're breaking into the cockpit. I love you. 9:59 a.m. After burning for approximately 56 minutes from the impact of Flight 175, the South Tower of the World Trade Center collapses in 10 seconds, covering lower Manhattan in a gray-white cloud of dust and debris. 10:00 a.m. In the cockpit, a hijacker says They want to get in here. Hold, hold from the inside. The cockpit voice recorder captured the sounds of crashing, screaming, and shattering of glass. A hijacker asks, Is that it? Shall we finish it off? Another hijacker responds, No. Not yet. When they all come, we finish... The hijacker at the controls pitches the airplane up and down. A passenger in the background cries, In the cockpit. If we don't, we'll die! 10:01 a.m. Moments after the South Tower fell, Chief J. Pfeifer (inside of North Tower) says on the radio to all firemen, at least twice, Evacuate the building. 10:02 a.m. A passenger yells, "Roll it! and the passengers continue their assault while a hijacker says, "Pull it down! Pull it down! The plane rolls onto its back, and one of the hijackers began shouting the takbir. Amidst the sounds of the passenger counterattack, the aircraft plowed into an empty field in Stonycreek, Pennsylvania about 20 minutes' flying time from Washington, D.C. 10:04 a.m. Rescue workers pull out the last survivors of the Pentagon attack just minutes before it collapses. 10:10 a.m. A large section of the west side of the Pentagon collapses. The entire US Navy Command Center has been knocked out. 10:21 a.m. NYPD Inspector Terri Tobin was buried in the rubble with a glass pane lodged in her back and cinder block cut on her skull. She rose from the debris and rescued injured people who were in a panic. She clung mightily to one severely injured man's arm and said: "I'm with the NYPD. I'm not gonna let go." 15 Students of History -

16 10:28 a.m. As if being split down the center, the North Tower of the World Trade Center collapses from the top down. This second collapse is also viewed live on television and heard on radio. 10:33 a.m. Lieutenant Mickey Kross of the NYFD is in stairwell B on the fourth floor of the north tower when it collapses, but still leads 14 people, mostly firefighters, to safety. 11:45 a.m. President Bush makes a brief statement from Barksdale Air Force Base in Shreveport, La., saying that freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward and freedom will be defended." He adds, "The United States will hunt down and punish those responsible for these cowardly acts. 1:27 p.m. Washington, D.C., Mayor Anthony A. Williams declares a state of emergency and the National Guard is deployed onto the streets of Washington. 1:32 p.m. Pasquale Buzzelli, a structural engineer for the Port Authority wakes up on a pile of rubble of the North Tower. He was descending down from the 64th floor and got to the 22nd floor when the tower collapsed. He was knocked unconscious for three hours, and awoke on a hill of rubble, looking at the sky. 16

17 Name September 11 th Interview Assignment Directions: Although you might be too young to remember what happened on September 11 th 2001, the events of that day will never be forgotten by most Americans. Conduct an interview with someone who has a recollection of September 11, This person could be a parent, grandparent, teacher, etc. Use these guiding questions or include your own: 1. How old were you on September 11, 2001? 2. Where were you that morning? 3. How did you first hear about the what happened (or was happening) that day? 4. Tell me what you experienced. 5. What was your initial reaction? 6. Was there anyone you phoned or contacted? Why did you choose that person? 7. Did you have any immediate concerns about your own safety? 8. What feelings or emotions do you remember experiencing on that day or subsequent days? 9. Did you notice any differences in the way strangers treated one another? 10. Did this tragedy change you in anyway? Why or why not? 17 Students of History -

18 I sincereley hope this resources helps you in teaching about the tragic events of September 11 th. Below are some links to additional teaching resources that you might find helpful. Thanks again!