PROGRESS UPDATE ONE
This year for our HASS term three and four assessment, we had the choice to chose which topic we wanted to do (History, Economics, Civics, or Geography). We are going to present our project on this in term 4 on the presentation night for Year 10 HASS. We have chosen to do History for ours, and specifically the September 11 attacks in 2001 to the twin towers. We are going to be focusing more on the hijackers and the effects on the community from the attacks, and be going off this research for our project.
OUR PROGRESS SO FAR
These last few weeks we have been mainly focusing on our bibliographies and deciding on what our project will be on, and what we are designing. We have worked together to find 10 different sources to create 10 different bibliographies between the three of us. We did not have too much time for this, so we had to work well together to ensure that none of us did the same site or overlapped on topics, etc. We have also decided that for our actual project, we will be getting a corkboard, and showing how detailed the planning of the hijackers must have been. We will find images and information to show us the planning, and be connecting these documents with red string and pins like in the movies, and to make it more visually pleasing. We also plan to maybe create a structure of the towers, to demonstrate where the planes hit and the structural damage to the towers.
TIMELINE/FUTURE PLANNING
Our plan for continuing our project includes:
- By the end of week one, we plan to have finished our planning for the displays.
- Also by the end of week 1 we want to have all the resources we need to make it.
- By the end of week 2 we want to have started our display.
- By the end of week 3 we want to have finished one of our displays.
- From week 4-5 we want to spend the time completing and polishing our displays.
PROGRESS UPDATE TWO
The rest of my group and I have now figured out what we are going to do for the rest of our project. The main things we are going to have at the presentation include
- A corkboard with photos stuck up, connected with string like in movies. The photos are going to be real photos and information from the day of September 11, showing the detailed planning of the attackers who were behind the plane attacks.
- a video of / information about an interview that we are going to be commencing (Monday 25/10) with a survivour of the September 11 attacks
- (maybe) a model of the towers before they were crashed into by the planes
- (maybe) a display board with pictures, information and details about the attacks that can help to let people know who wil be viewing ourpeice about the attacks, the attackers and the community aroung the attacks.
- (maybe) personal details about victims (and maybe attackers) from the September 11 attacks.
SOME OF OUR RESEARCH
We have researched a lot about our project already to ensure that our presentation at the end of the year is as reliable and correct as possible. We have found many websites that can give us a lot of this information, some of which include
- https://www.history.com/topics/21st-century/9-11-attacks
- https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/Publications_Archive/CIB/cib0102/02CIB08
- https://edition.cnn.com/2013/07/27/us/september-11th-hijackers-fast-facts/index.html
- https://edition.cnn.com/2013/07/27/us/september-11-anniversary-fast-facts/index.html
We have found out many different sorts of useful things, for e.g.
- some of the affects on the community from the attacks (e.g. the cost of cleanup, how many people were killed etc.) and we have watched interviews of people who were there in NY on the day, for example an interview with a firefihter who flew from Perth to NY to help when he saw what had happened
- information about the attackers, and we found some specific people who were involved (for example Mohamed Atta, Ziad Jarrah and Waleed al Shehri)
- On top of this, we have also found out a lot of information about different victims of the day, including our interviewee John Mahony, whi safely made it out of the towers. While we already know quite a bit about his experience becuase of a website about that we found, our interview on moday will give us some more details.
TIMELINE/ WHAT WE ARE DOING NEXT
RECENT TIMELINE
- We have organised a zoom meeting with a contact of Mr Basell, who experienced the attack on the World Trade Centre first hand
- In preperation of this meeting, we have come up with a series of questions to ask Mr Mahony about his personal experience with the attacks on the towers.
- Collected information about the attacks to display on our board along with pictured sources for the visual aspect of our display.
- creayed a plan to roughly describe how the layout of our visual displays are going to look.
- planned the materials we are going to need to purchasebefore the presentation exhibition in order to assemble our display. We have also organised who is going to buy what and didvided the costs
CONTINUING THE PROJECT
- We need to purchase all of the materials that we need to buy for the display in future
- old and commence the interview with John Mahony to gain more informtaion and details
- edit the video from the interview with the infromation so it is presentabe for the exhibition day
- print off resources and display pictures gathered and organise them so we are readt to set up out display on the day of our presnetation
FEEDBACK
-The main piece of feedback we have gotten from other people and teahcers is that we need to focus on making sure that our project has actual information in it, and not just making it look pretty. We have done this and are now going to add more information and details into our corkboard/string connected photos so that the readers and audience can understand as much about the topic as they can.