September 11 attacks

High school (ages 12+)
History & Culture

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/september-11-attacks

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the date of attacks?September 11, 2001
2. What is the perpetrator organization?Al-Qaeda
3. What happened on September 11, 2001?On September 11, 2001, four planes were hijacked by terrorists. They crashed into the World Trade Center towers, the Pentagon, and a field in Pennsylvania, causing many deaths.
4. Why did the World Trade Center towers collapse?The planes caused huge fires that made the steel in the towers weak. The weakened steel couldn't hold up, so both towers fell.

Al-Qaeda: An extremist militant group responsible for orchestrating the September 11 attacks.
Pentagon: The headquarters of the United States Department of Defense, one of the targets of the attacks.
Patriot Act: A controversial U.S. law passed after 9/11 that expanded government powers for national security.