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Today is the 11th anniversary of the September 11th Attacks. It’s hard to believe it’s been over a decade since that horrible day, when everything started out right and ended so catastrophically. Today I plan to honor the memory of those who died by watching the media coverage and observing moments of silence. Later today I will take my daughter on a play date with a friend and her son. We are taking them to a place that’s perfect for imaginative play so we can escape from the solemnness of this day for just a little while. Balancing the day between joy and remembrance is the best way for me to ensure the terrorists don’t change my way of life.
While you can slice about anything you want today and every week, please feel free to share slices about where you were eleven years ago or how you’re marking this anniversary eleven years later. Ruth and I have blogged quite a bit about September 11th over the past five years, so just do a category search for “September 11th” or “September 11th Tribute” and you can read through our past posts.
I am a literacy consultant who focuses on writing workshop. I've been working with K-6 teachers and students since 2009. Prior to that, I was a fourth and fifth-grade teacher in New York City and Rhode Island.
I'm the author of Craft Moves (Stenhouse Publishers, 2016) and the co-author of Jump Into Writing (Zaner-Bloser, 2021), Welcome to Writing Workshop (Stenhouse Publishers, 2019), and Day By Day (Stenhouse, 2010).
I live in Central Pennsylvania with my husband and children. In my free time, I enjoy swimming, doing Pilates, cooking, baking, making ice cream, and reading novels.
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I know I’m a day late! It’s been a rough patch here in Chicago as I’m sure most of you already know. Thank you all for the comments on last weeks post. I am getting around to returning the favor. Here is an update from the inside.
9/11 is always a day of reflection for me, as it occurred during my first year of teaching. I’m excited that 11 years later, I’ve figured out the main responsibility of my position….motivating readers!
Stacey, I was thinking about you today and am glad to read your thoughts about 9/11. The balance you strive for — joy and remembrance — is perfect. Thanks for sharing your thoughts with us.
Not a post about September 11th, because I have been so excited about the new school year and knew this was a great place to share that excitement. But, the September 11th post will happen at some point this week… just not tonight… 🙂 http://jenbaum-laughoftenlovemuch.blogspot.com/2012/09/back-at-it.html
Here’s a link that I wrote a couple of years ago about where I was on September 11th. http://www.snapshotsofmrsv.blogspot.com/2010/09/etched-in-my-mind-remembering-september.html
Every year it is so odd as my students’ ages at the time of the attacks get younger and younger. Right now, none of my 6th-8th graders have any memories of it. Within a few years, none of my middle schoolers will have been born yet. It is so hard to imagine.
http://drferreri.blogspot.com/2012/09/911.html
I started to link an entry about handwriting and then I saw Stacy’s reminder. How could I have missed the date? I was stopped in my tracks. This is a real reflection and not as funny or witty as I would like. Just real on a day when prayer seems to be the quiet connection to the disaster of the past.
I watched about 45 minutes of MSNBC’s re-broadcast of the 9/11/01 news coverage with Katie Couric, Matt Lauer, and Tom Brokaw this morning. It brought me back to that tragic day in ways I didn’t expect. Therefore, my slice is about September 11th, then and now. http://raisealithuman.wordpress.com/2012/09/11/sept-11th-then-now/
“Let freedom ring…” Books like the one I’m writing about today need to make the way into our classrooms. September 11th must be a day that we never forget. My post on September 11th will come, it’s just not there yet. In the meantime…. http://twoyearsandfinishingstrong.wordpress.com/2012/09/11/of-thee-i-sing/
My slice today is about September 11. My principal asked me to write a short speech for some students to read at our assembly today (it’s a mixed blessing to be known as “the writer”)
I know I’m a day late! It’s been a rough patch here in Chicago as I’m sure most of you already know. Thank you all for the comments on last weeks post. I am getting around to returning the favor. Here is an update from the inside.
http://coffeefueledmusings.wordpress.com/2012/09/12/an-update-from-the-inside/
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http://iheartpurplestuff.blogspot.com/2012/09/keeping-on-keeping-on.html
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9/11 and September 11th … if I think of them as being different, will that make celebrating my birthday easier? http://girlgriot.wordpress.com/2012/09/11/partial-disclosure-or-airing-my-dirty-laundry-list/
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Two posts tonight; sometimes two very different start points lead to the same destination.
The Impossible Day. Reflections on September 11.
http://tothisoneitmatters.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-impossible-day.html
It’s All Invented, Mr. Anderson. Thoughts on meeting an addict and how the impossible can happen every day.
http://tothisoneitmatters.blogspot.com/2012/09/its-all-invented-mr-anderson.html
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http://archermom.blogspot.com/2012/09/remembering.html
9/11, a young man’s perspective, and an ending I did not intend. 🙂
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A story about being forgetful. No 9/11 story today.
http://www.pamelahodges.org/2012/09/11/a-can-of-king-oscar-sardines-and-a-cell-phone/
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9/11 is always a day of reflection for me, as it occurred during my first year of teaching. I’m excited that 11 years later, I’ve figured out the main responsibility of my position….motivating readers!
http://readingamidthechaos.blogspot.com/2012/09/motivating-readers.html
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September 11
http://readcreateplay.blogspot.com/2012/09/hope.html
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Stacey – thank you for the “prompt”. It was good to reflect on today. http://shewritesbecause.blogspot.com/2012/09/september-11.html
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Stacey, I was thinking about you today and am glad to read your thoughts about 9/11. The balance you strive for — joy and remembrance — is perfect. Thanks for sharing your thoughts with us.
My slice veered from my thoughts of 9/11 — although they are at the front of my mind, and instead landed with a confession about my writing life: http://ruthayreswrites.blogspot.com/2012/09/a-confession-sols.html
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I seem to be behind on everything these days – so I am posting some writing I did earlier but never shared here: http://fireflytrails.wordpress.com/2012/08/16/stuff/
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Not the post I’d planned, but it’s good to remember.
http://you-get-what-you-get-lori.blogspot.com/2012/09/remembering-911.html
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So many things on our minds.
http://teachingyoungwriters.blogspot.com/2012/09/options-hope.html
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The Towers
http://showgem.wordpress.com/2012/09/12/the-towers/
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http://livewriteteach.blogspot.com/2012/09/to-remember-sols.html
Same drive; different thoughts this morning…11 years later.
To remember.
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Not a post about September 11th, because I have been so excited about the new school year and knew this was a great place to share that excitement. But, the September 11th post will happen at some point this week… just not tonight… 🙂
http://jenbaum-laughoftenlovemuch.blogspot.com/2012/09/back-at-it.html
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Eleven years later
http://tswalkingthedog.blogspot.com/2012/09/eleven-years-later.html
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oh, I’ve missed you all sooooo much! I haven’t felt like myself missing SOL for the past two weeks, but I was just drowning in schoolwork.
some snapshots of the wonderful things that have happened in my new position so far: http://ihabloespanglish.blogspot.com/2012/09/do-you-like-kids-like-us.html
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In September
http://www.klingercafe.com/2012/09/a-slice-of-life-in-september.html
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http://enbuscadeequilibrio.blogspot.com/2012/09/anticipation.html
Here’s a link that I wrote a couple of years ago about where I was on September 11th. http://www.snapshotsofmrsv.blogspot.com/2010/09/etched-in-my-mind-remembering-september.html
Every year it is so odd as my students’ ages at the time of the attacks get younger and younger. Right now, none of my 6th-8th graders have any memories of it. Within a few years, none of my middle schoolers will have been born yet. It is so hard to imagine.
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One thing leads to another
http://clayfragments.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-warmth-of-dill.html
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http://debbie-mewritingmore.blogspot.com/2012/09/new-things.html
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http://drferreri.blogspot.com/2012/09/911.html
I started to link an entry about handwriting and then I saw Stacy’s reminder. How could I have missed the date? I was stopped in my tracks. This is a real reflection and not as funny or witty as I would like. Just real on a day when prayer seems to be the quiet connection to the disaster of the past.
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I watched about 45 minutes of MSNBC’s re-broadcast of the 9/11/01 news coverage with Katie Couric, Matt Lauer, and Tom Brokaw this morning. It brought me back to that tragic day in ways I didn’t expect. Therefore, my slice is about September 11th, then and now.
http://raisealithuman.wordpress.com/2012/09/11/sept-11th-then-now/
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Routines – I am ready, but they aren’t.
http://imwritingtoo.blogspot.com/2012/09/routine.html
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For September 11…
http://newtreemom.wordpress.com/2012/09/11/a-school-tradition/
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I’ve been contemplating my new cracked pots.
http://teachingtomorrowsleaders.blogspot.com/2012/09/my-new-cracked-pots.html
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Keeping 9/11 in my thoughs, but also my colleagues in Chicago:
http://tmsteach.blogspot.com/2012/09/slice-of-life-tuesday-thinking-about.html
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46 years later
http://otterlanding.wordpress.com/2012/09/11/going-back-again/
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It is why our work is called “craft.”
http://onesunflower.wordpress.com/2012/09/11/its-what-we-do-with-what-we-know/
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a walk, plain and simple
http://wakeupandwrite.wordpress.com/2012/09/11/this-day/
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Thoughts about courage, compassion, and connectedness for today.
http://pleasuresfromthepage.blogspot.com/2012/09/courage.html
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This is my poem about forgiveness. http://lolawrite.blogspot.com/2012/09/forgiveness.html?m=1
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Although 9/11 is on my heart and mind today, saying goodbye to a colleague tugged at my heart too.
http://readwriteinspire.blogspot.com/2012/09/i-will-not-miss-her.html
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I’ve entered another world these past few days. http://www.teacherdance.blogspot.com/2012/09/slices-of-life-arent-always-easy.html#comment-form
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People aren’t the only ones on the trail I’ve been riding. http://lcinmo.wordpress.com/2012/09/11/spotting-wildlife/
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A little snippet about “Don’t Be Boring Friday”. http://deb-day.blogspot.com/2012/09/dont-be-boring.html
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My Place . . .
http://inspire-lynn.blogspot.com/2012/09/my-place.html
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Today brainstorming my own poem to join my students. http://readwriteandreflect.blogspot.com/2012/09/slice-of-life-where-im-from.html
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Visiting a classroom helped me to revisit how to help students have deeper discussions
http://www.writeonkathy.blogspot.com
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September 11th is on my mind too.
http://literacyzone.blogspot.com/2012/09/sols-september-11th.html
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I was the student
http://justforamonth.blogspot.com/2012/09/switching-roles.html
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“Let freedom ring…” Books like the one I’m writing about today need to make the way into our classrooms. September 11th must be a day that we never forget. My post on September 11th will come, it’s just not there yet. In the meantime…. http://twoyearsandfinishingstrong.wordpress.com/2012/09/11/of-thee-i-sing/
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Morning Slicers. Remembering 9/11
http://wp.me/p2dQA-15p
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My slice today is about September 11. My principal asked me to write a short speech for some students to read at our assembly today (it’s a mixed blessing to be known as “the writer”)
http://www.mariaselke.com/2012/09/remembrance.html
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An unlikely class pet: http://reflectionsontheteche.wordpress.com/2012/09/11/daisy-the-spider/
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9/11
http://kathgillis.wordpress.com/2012/09/11/remembering-911/
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Never say never
http://myreadingblog-jac.blogspot.com/2012/09/tuesday-sol-91112-something-totally.html
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Another writing year begins!
http://ourclasswrites.wordpress.com/2012/09/09/im-glad-you-are-here/
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The Moving Man – the pressures and pleasures associated with packing up your life in preparation for moving to a new location.
http://livinglifetwice-alwrite.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/slice-of-life-story-moving-man-cometh.html
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The Circle of Light!
http://theamyrudder.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-september-11th-slice-of-life-two.html
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