Bộ sách Scott foresman social Studies gồm các quyển sau: 5.1 Learning About the First Americans 5.2 His Name Was Amerigo 5.3 New World, New Neighbors 5.4 Choosing Freedom 5.5 The War for Independence 5.6 The People Who Gave Us the US Constitution 5.7 Heading West 5.8 The Growing United States 5.9 Women of the Civil War 5.10 Hard Times 5.11 The War at Home 5.12 3, 2, 1, Blastoff 5.13 The Heroes of 911 5.14 Growing and Changing Cities 5.15 Visiting States and Capitals
Trang 1Scott Foresman Social Studies
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THE HEROES
of 9/11
by Barbara Fifer
Fascinating Facts
• The Pentagon is actually made up of five buildings
that fit snugly together There are fifteen hallways that
connect the buildings of the Pentagon
• The collapsed steel and concrete from the World Trade
Center buildings weighed 1.8 million tons and filled
108,342 trucks
• When the waiting lines for New York’s ferries became
too long on September 11, 2001, people from New
York and New Jersey who owned private boats began
sailing back and forth These extra boats helped get
people across the water and closer to their homes
Scott Foresman Social Studies
Nonfi ction Summarize • Captions
• Headings
ISBN 0-328-14918-7
ì<(sk$m)=bejbig< +^-Ä-U-Ä-U
THE HEROES
of 9/11
by Barbara Fifer
Fascinating Facts
• The Pentagon is actually made up of five buildings
that fit snugly together There are fifteen hallways that
connect the buildings of the Pentagon
• The collapsed steel and concrete from the World Trade
Center buildings weighed 1.8 million tons and filled
108,342 trucks
• When the waiting lines for New York’s ferries became
too long on September 11, 2001, people from New
York and New Jersey who owned private boats began
sailing back and forth These extra boats helped get
people across the water and closer to their homes
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Vocabulary
terrorist hijack pentagon headquarters memorial
On September 11, 2001, terrorists attacked the United
States by crashing airplanes into buildings These attacks
killed and injured thousands of people In this book you
will read about how the rescue workers and other people
helped those who were hurt by the attacks
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THE HEROES
of 9/11
by Barbara Fifer
Trang 3Terrorist Attacks
September 11, 2001, began as a clear autumn morning in
the northeastern United States Then an airplane crashed into
one of the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers in New York
City At first it seemed to be an accident, but eighteen minutes
later another plane crashed into the second tower Thirty-seven
minutes after that, a third passenger plane crashed into the
Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia Passengers on a fourth plane,
Flight 93, fought back against the terrorists, and their plane
crashed in a field
Terrorists had hijacked, or took over by force, the
planes Those men were angry at the United States They flew
three planes into those buildings on purpose
Many people became heroes that day This book is about a
few of them
Thousands of people were working in the World Trade Center in
New York City on the morning of September 11, 2001.
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The World Trade Center
Seven buildings made up the World Trade Center The buildings stood in New York City, on Manhattan Island
Businesses rented space in six of those buildings The seventh building was a hotel When the attacks happened, at least forty thousand people were in the buildings
The two most famous buildings were known by several names They were called the Twin Towers, North Tower and South Tower, or WTC1 and WTC2 They were 110 stories high—among the world’s six tallest buildings Each tower had ninety-seven elevators for people and six elevators for freight
Here is a view of the World Trade Center buildings as seen before the attack.
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Pentagon is the name for a five-sided figure The United
States Department of Defense has its home in a building built
in that shape It is simply called “the Pentagon.” The Pentagon
is across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C
The Pentagon is five stories tall and covers twenty-nine
acres The total length of its halls is seventeen-and-a-half miles
This is the headquarters, or main office, of all the
branches of the United States military About twenty-six
thousand employees work in the Pentagon
This is the Pentagon It is large enough that the United
States Capitol could fit into one of its five sides.
Four Airplanes
Around eight o’clock on the morning of September 11,
2001, four airplanes took off with terrorists on board The terrorists hijacked one plane and crashed it into the World Trade Center’s North Tower Shortly after, the same thing happened with another plane that hit the South Tower
A third plane left Washington, D.C Terrorists hijacked the plane and turned it back toward Washington, D.C They crashed it into the Pentagon
The fourth plane was Flight 93 A few people on board heard about the first three crashes on their cell phones
When terrorists took over their plane, some
of the passengers fought back The plane, which was also headed for Washington, D.C., crashed in a field in Pennsylvania
Terrorists crashed an airplane into each of the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers.
Trang 5Helping Each Other
Michael Benfante and John Cerqueira worked in the World
Trade Center Their office was on the eighty-first floor of the
North Tower It was four floors below where Flight 11 hit
Going down the stairs, the men had a hard time breathing
and seeing The airplane’s fuel was burning and filling the
building with thick, black smoke
On the sixty-eighth floor, they met a woman in a wheelchair
Using a special rescue chair, the men carried her down the
stairs It took an hour
In the South Tower, Welles Crowther carried some people
part of the way down He also asked healthy people to help
others who were hurt
Many Twin Towers workers helped others get down the
stairs and outside.
Firefighters, Police, and EMTs
Firefighters and medical workers called EMTs, or emergency medical technicians, rushed upstairs as office workers climbed down the stairs in the Twin Towers Each firefighter carried sixty pounds of gear Other firefighters fought smaller fires on the ground EMTs treated injured people outside
The two airplanes each held twenty-four thousand gallons
of jet fuel The crashes caused hot fires that weakened the towers’ steel frames The North Tower stood for about one hundred minutes, and the South Tower stood for sixty minutes
Thousands of people escaped the towers
Finally, the towers’ steel frames gave way and the buildings fell The 343 firefighters inside were killed Twenty-three police officers were also killed
Later, WTC (Building) 7 and the hotel collapsed
The New York Fire Department crews arrived at the Twin Towers and began rescuing people within minutes.
Trang 6Pentagon Rescuers
The Pentagon has its own police and
firefighters, but many nearby firefighters
came to help Soldiers dug tunnels under
furniture and fallen walls so people could
crawl out One large man held up a ceiling
for a while
Victor Correa, a lieutenant colonel in
the army, walked through smoke in a dark
hallway Over and over, he yelled, “Listen
to me! Follow my voice!” He led many
people outdoors
Staff Sergeant Christopher Braman, a Marine,
heard a woman clapping She could not shout,
and was badly burned He rescued her
Fire departments from around the area came to help
the Pentagon’s own firefighters.
Land the Airplanes!
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) sets the rules for non-military airplanes After the first two crashes, the FAA stopped planes from taking off and told air traffic controllers to have all other planes land
Air traffic controllers talk to pilots during takeoffs and landings The controllers have to be calm in emergencies Now they had to land nearly four thousand planes at once! Only military planes were allowed to fly
No one knew if terrorists were aboard anymore airliners By about noon, all airliners had landed
Air traffic controllers watch images of airplanes on computers while they talk with the pilots by radio.
Trang 7Restaurants, Stores,
and Hotels Help
When the Twin Towers collapsed in New York
City, the air was filled with smoke and dust
Thousands of people were still walking away
Restaurants, stores, and hotels opened their
doors People could go in for a drink of water
Usually, this was for customers only
Subways and trains stopped running People
had to walk home—sometimes long distances
Stores gave free running shoes to people who
needed them
A fancy hotel set up beds and cots in its
ballroom The chef cooked lots of food Rescue
workers were welcome to eat and rest
That night some people had to sleep on the
streets Hotels lent them pillows and blankets
When the Twin Towers fell, they sent
a thick, dark cloud
of smoke and dust through parts of New York City.
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Digging for Survivors
People were still escaping to other parts of New York
Rescue workers were already digging for survivors at the Twin Towers
In New York and at the Pentagon, police and firefighters came from near and far So did doctors, nurses, and EMTs
Construction workers brought heavy machines
Owners brought their search-and-rescue dogs The dogs crawled into small spaces, walked on broken glass, and sniffed and listened for survivors
Spotlights allowed rescuers to work all night They found a few survivors
Rescue workers searched for trapped survivors at the Twin Towers all through the night of September 11, 2001.
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Within four days, more than 250,000 people donated
blood Usually, in four days, only about 91,000 people do
that Injured people often need new blood to help them heal
In New York City, Robin Merendino and her family went
to restaurants and supermarkets to ask for free hot food for
rescuers Soon they had 1,500 pounds of meals that filled
five vans!
Thousands of people gave blood to help those injured in
the attacks.
Gifts from Everywhere
The New York Fire Department lost ninety-one fire trucks, rescue trucks, and cars when the Twin Towers fell People from Louisiana, Ohio, and Utah bought new fire trucks for the department Schoolchildren in Columbia, South Carolina, held
a fundraiser and bought New York City a new fire truck Two companies that build fire trucks each donated a truck
Schools, clubs, and businesses across the United States raised money for those harmed by the attacks Some money was used for educating children who lost relatives Some money helped people who had to move out of damaged apartments Some money was used for medical care
Individual citizens, companies, and other groups donated many kinds of things to survivors and rescuers.
Trang 9Sympathy and Changes
Nations around the world expressed sympathy for the
United States’ losses “Today we are all Americans,” said a
former prime minister of Israel He meant that everyone shared
in the sadness
People worked day and night to clean up the World Trade
Center site Trucks carried away broken steel and cement
They finished on May 30, 2002—three months earlier than
expected A contest was held to choose a design for new
buildings to replace the ones destroyed
Airports made many changes in how they checked
passengers onto airliners They wanted to make it impossible
for terrorists to take over airplanes ever again
The last piece of steel was removed from the World Trade Center
wreckage eight months after the attacks.
New Buildings and Memorials
More than 3,000 people died in the four attacks on September 11, 2001 More than 2,500 people survived with injuries These people were from many states, the District
of Columbia, as well as other nations
New buildings will be built where the Twin Towers stood in
New York City along with a memorial, a way to remember
and honor a person or an event The damaged part of the Pentagon was repaired in eleven months The National Park Service plans to build
a memorial where Flight 93 crashed in Pennsylvania Everyone who helped during and after the attacks is a hero
of 9/11
A single 1,776-foot tower will replace the Twin Towers
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headquarters the center of operations for a company or a
military unit
hijack to take control of a moving vehicle by use of force
memorial a building, statue, park, or other creation that
honors certain people or events
pentagon a shape with five equal sides
terrorist a person who uses violence and fear to try to
achieve goals
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Unless otherwise acknowledged, all photographs are the property of Scott Foresman, a division of Pearson Education.
Photo locators denoted as follows: Top (T), Center (C), Bottom (B), Left (L), Right (R), Background (Bkgd) Opener: Getty Images
2 ©Jim Zuckerman/Corbis
3 ©Kelly-Mooney Photography/Corbis
4 ©Corbis
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6 ©Catherine Leuthold/Corbis
7 ©Getty Images
8 ©Susie Walsh/AFP/Getty Images
9 ©Chad Slattery/Getty Images
10 ©AP/Wide World Photos
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12 ©Reyes Damaso/Gamma Press, Inc.
13 ©Bernd Obermann/Corbis
14 ©Tannenbaum Allan/Gamma Press, Inc.
15 ©Archimation/Studio Daniel Liebeskind
Vocabulary
terrorist hijack pentagon headquarters memorial
On September 11, 2001, terrorists attacked the United
States by crashing airplanes into buildings These attacks
killed and injured thousands of people In this book you
will read about how the rescue workers and other people
helped those who were hurt by the attacks