Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Two thoughtful essays about 9/11

Today marks the anniversary of the tragic events of September 11, 2001. We invite our readers to read the essay below, written by former NCSCL director and SDSU Emeritus Professor Jerry Griswold for the Irish magazine "Inis," in which he discusses how things changed in his classes after the terrorist acts of 2001.

http://blog.parents-choice.org/2010/09/reading-differently-after-september-11/

Another thoughtful response to the events of 9/11, this time by the late great David Foster Wallace, is linked here:

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/9-11-the-view-from-the-midwest-20110819

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