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Question 1: How was your topic affected by 9/11?

9/11 caused the publishing of the coloring book //We Shall Never Forget 9/11: The Kid's Book of Freedom.// This coloring book for kids includes pictures such as the twin towers burning down and a Navy SEAL shooting a bullet as Osama bin Laden. According to Wayne Bell the author, the purpose of the book was to educate kids about "what a group of radicals did" to America. He said it was to show the events of 9/11 "in a very clean, honest read that does not shy away from the facts." The questions is, what age should kids be educated on terrorists? Is coloring book age an appropriate time to educate children on terrorists? The events of 9/11 were so tragic, ten years later a coloring book was published to be used as an educational tool for children. Whether or not this book is appropriate for children who enjoy coloring books, the book //We Shall Never Forget 9/11: The Kid's Book of Freedom// is an effect of date September 11, 2001.

Johnson, Reed. "How 9/11 seared itself into American culture." //9/11 Attack's// //cultural echo - kwch.com//. Los Angeles Times, 1 Sept. 2011. Web. 2 Sept. 2011. .

Mockaitis, Tom. "September 11 terrorist attacks." World Book Advanced. World Book, 2011. Web. 2 Sept. 2011.

Question 2: Explain the scope (extent), intensity (depth), and nature of the affect of 9/11 on you topic.

Tragedy struck American on the day of September 11, 2001. It affected everyone, not just those in New York. After all as Reed Johnson of the Los Angelos Times said "How should popular culture deal with a tragedy in which nearly 3,000 people lost their lives...?" The question is, what do we tell children who are too young to know? I was five years old on September 11, but I still knew something was wrong because my mom was extremely worried. She told me some crazy people flew planes into a building and at the time, it didn't seem like a big deal to me. However it was a huge deal. According to //World Book, Advance//, 9/11 was "...the worst acts of terrorism ever carried out against the United States." It even "...inspired cultural works...(Johnson, 1). 9/11 still affects us today because of the movies and books that are being published because of that Tuesday in 2001. It is a tragedy that still haunts us for years to come.

Tom, Mockaitis. "September 11 terroist attacks." //World Book Advanced//. N.p., n.d. Web. 1 Sept. 2011

Johnson, Reed. "How 9/11 seared itself into American culture." //9/11 Attack's// //cultural echo - kwch.com//. Los Angeles Times, 1 Sept. 2011. Web. 2 Sept. 2011. .

Question 3: How has debate on this issue made our country stronger?

For the concern of when to tel kids about 9/11 I believe that this debate has hurt our country because we worry about what is too little or too much to tell them. If anything, it causes stress and/pr kids finding out by friends at an age too young to understand 9/11 such as myself when I was five years old. I honestly believe that if I had been fifteen when 9/11 occured, it would have affected me differently ten years later than it is affecting me at the age of fifteen now. That's because my mom told me too little when I was five so I believe this debate about when to tell kids about 9/11and how much to tell them has hurt out country. Maryellen Salamone, wife to John Salamone who died on September 11, said that she didn't tell her kids much either. "They just knew that planes crashed into buildings and Dad died" (Salamone 2). And how do you tel kids about "the [people] who... died - on that September day" (Dawn 1)? At age five, kids are too young to know. People my age don't appreciate 9/11 or understand it as much as people ten years older than us because we weren't old enough to understand what was going on when 9/11 happened. So for the concern of when to tell kids about 9/11, I believe that this issue has hurt our country.

Colimore, Edward. "Using Lessons and Loss of 9/11 to Change New Jersey School Curriculum." //philly.com//. Inguirer Staff Writer, n.d. Web. 6 Sept. 2011. .

Dawn, Randee. "10 Years later, TV still has trouble capturing 9/11." //Today// //Television//. N.p., n.d. Web. 6 Sept. 2011. .

RUBRIC for Responses
 * A strong topic sentence that clearly addresses and answers the question
 * Evidence that clearly supports the topic sentence
 * Correct use of internal citations and a properly formatted MLA citation for your articles (put this citation at the end of paragraph one)
 * Strict adherence to the Power Paragraph format
 * Mechanics are clean and do not detract from meaning