Case Study 4
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Objet d'étude 3
9/11: from tragedy to memory
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Record an audio guide for the World Trade Center memorial site.
You are part of a committee tasked with designing a visitor's guide for the 9/11 memorial site. Your goal is to help visitors understand the historical and emotional significance of the site. Think of a way to explain the meaning of the memorial that communicates respect and reflection, and record an audio guide that will help visitors connect with the history and legacy of the site.
You are part of a committee tasked with designing a visitor's guide for the 9/11 memorial site. Your goal is to help visitors understand the historical and emotional significance of the site. Think of a way to explain the meaning of the memorial that communicates respect and reflection, and record an audio guide that will help visitors connect with the history and legacy of the site.
Section of the World Trade Center,
now part of the memorial.
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1 Exploring Ground Zero
Ground Zero, New York City.
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Step 1
1
Watch the introduction video and create a timeline of the events on 9/11/2001.
2
Focus on doc. 1 and describe the places and symbols that a visitor can find at Ground Zero.
3
What feelings or messages do they convey?
Action!
Write the first section of your audio guide, introducing the memorial site and explaining its significance.
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2 Honoring the victims
“Trying to Remember the Color of the Sky on that September Morning”
by Spencer Finch.
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Step 2
1
In what ways does the memorial honor the memory of the 9/11 victims?
2
Pick out three objects displayed in the museum. What stories do they tell?
3
What emotions might visitors experience during their visit?
Action!
Choose an artifact and describe it for your audio guide. Help visitors feel the emotions of the people connected to it.
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3
A new 9/11 generation
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On Thursday, for the 24th time, survivors and victims of the terrorism attacks will gather at New York's 9/11 Memorial and Museum for the annual rite of remembrance, an hourslong recitation of nearly 3,000 names at the site known as ground zero.
There will be bagpipes1, the national anthem and moments of silence. Relatives of the dead will take turns in the recitation.
Those reading the names will also include children. About one-third of last year's readers belong to this new generation in the Sept. 11 families, one with no memory of the attacks but increasingly shouldering the responsibility to never forget. [...]
To take part, family members enter their names into a lottery managed by the 9/11 Memorial and Museum, the site with the plaza where the ceremony takes place near the 30-foot waterfalls that sit in the footprints of the former north and south towers.
Students today see the events of Sept. 11 as part of history. Theirs is a post-Cold War generation for whom terrorism may be a more familiar threat than nuclear annihilation. Their defining event has been the coronavirus pandemic.
Many of these young people began going to the ceremonies in Lower Manhattan as babies.
The Richeses, a family of Brooklyn firefighters, exemplify this transition. Three generations have stood before mourners to recite the names, starting with Jimmy Riches' father, Deputy Chief James Riches, now retired. He and his three younger sons went down into the pit of the World Trade Center on March 25, 2002, to carry out Jimmy's remains. As the family understands it, he was found beside a woman he was rescuing and would not leave. [...]
Since then, four of Jimmy's nieces and nephews, all born after Sept. 11, have taken part in the reading. [...]
Richeses were there when the site was still a wreckage. They were there when the new World Trade Center was under construction and when the memorial and pools opened on Sept. 11, 2011. [...]
This year it's Tommy's turn.
"We go down to the waterfalls every year," he said in an interview with his father nearby. "To keep him in our hearts and to never let him go. To never forget him."
There will be bagpipes1, the national anthem and moments of silence. Relatives of the dead will take turns in the recitation.
Those reading the names will also include children. About one-third of last year's readers belong to this new generation in the Sept. 11 families, one with no memory of the attacks but increasingly shouldering the responsibility to never forget. [...]
To take part, family members enter their names into a lottery managed by the 9/11 Memorial and Museum, the site with the plaza where the ceremony takes place near the 30-foot waterfalls that sit in the footprints of the former north and south towers.
Students today see the events of Sept. 11 as part of history. Theirs is a post-Cold War generation for whom terrorism may be a more familiar threat than nuclear annihilation. Their defining event has been the coronavirus pandemic.
Many of these young people began going to the ceremonies in Lower Manhattan as babies.
The Richeses, a family of Brooklyn firefighters, exemplify this transition. Three generations have stood before mourners to recite the names, starting with Jimmy Riches' father, Deputy Chief James Riches, now retired. He and his three younger sons went down into the pit of the World Trade Center on March 25, 2002, to carry out Jimmy's remains. As the family understands it, he was found beside a woman he was rescuing and would not leave. [...]
Since then, four of Jimmy's nieces and nephews, all born after Sept. 11, have taken part in the reading. [...]
Richeses were there when the site was still a wreckage. They were there when the new World Trade Center was under construction and when the memorial and pools opened on Sept. 11, 2011. [...]
This year it's Tommy's turn.
"We go down to the waterfalls every year," he said in an interview with his father nearby. "To keep him in our hearts and to never let him go. To never forget him."
1. bagpipes : cornemuses
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Step 3
1
List at least three elements of the 9/11 remembrance events.
2
How are younger generations involved in keeping the memory of 9/11 alive?
3
Why is it important for families to participate in these rituals?
4
How do these rituals help construct a collective memory of 9/11?
Action!
Write the final section of your audio guide explaining why the memorial site is important for honoring the victims and maintaining collective memory.
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Ready...
- Collect your notes about the historical events, memorial symbols, museum artifacts, and rituals of remembrance at the World Trade Center memorial site.
Steady...
- Work on the content and outline of your audio guide, making sure you highlight the most striking places, objects, and symbols, and that you convey the importance of remembering them.
Go!
- Record your audio guide on the , practicing your tone for it to be respectful and empathetic, so that the visitor can understand the meaning and importance of the memorial.
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