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When students don’t know 9/11

Educators rethink their lessons for children too young to remember

Monica Castro of Roxbury, a freshman at the South Boston Education Complex, recalls little about the Sept. 11 attacks because she was only 6 at the time. Monica Castro of Roxbury, a freshman at the South Boston Education Complex, recalls little about the Sept. 11 attacks because she was only 6 at the time. (Jonathan Wiggs/Globe Staff)
By Sarah Schweitzer
Globe Staff / September 11, 2009

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Three years ago, Julie Fox commemorated 9/11 with her students by asking them to write journal entries recounting where they were when the planes hit and how they felt at that moment. (Full article: 1003 words)

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