Human Geo class 9/11- What happened and review for test

On this day sixteen years, the September eleventh attacks were carried out by terrorists. Mr. Schick gave us his account of what had happened on that day. He started out by noting it was a clear sky day much like the one today. The school was gathering for its first Mass of the year. At the end of Mass, Principal Barker addressed to everyone what was going on and he said the teachers could either go on with class or they could turn on the televisions. Mr. Schick said that the math teachers were all drawing out diagrams on the boards and giving their explanations and the social studies teachers all turned on the TV's. Mr. Schick was two weeks into being a social studies teacher when this happened and said that textbooks will have columns about this day years down the road. He also mentioned that one of his students, a football player, asked if this was the start of WWIII. Mr. Schick couldn't answer for sure. After a certain amount of time all parents were here to pick up their kids and Principal Barker just let everyone go without having them sign out or anything since know one knew if more planes could've been hijacked. A few other teachers also gave their accounts of this day. Mrs. Michael noted that there were fifteen Spanish exchange who visited the Observation deck of the tower just the day before. All three teachers who have given their accounts so far have mentioned a student who went to John Carroll who lost her father in the attacks. After the discussion Mr. Schick reviewed test material with us for tomorrow's first test of high school, for me at least, which is exciting. The test is going to be fifteen multiple choice/ fill in the blank questions, worth four points each, and four short answer questions worth ten points a total of one hundred points.

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