2021 – 2022 kick off Ghana Session: Remembering 9/11 after twenty years and civics project incorporating the Better America Project

Just recently Mr. David Wronko’s new dream scholar class from Asbury Park High School had their first session with Papa Williams’ students from the Solid Rock Foundation School in Ghana. This session focused on two topics which consisted of remembering 9/11 after twenty years and the beginning of the civic project incorporating the A Better America project and sharing that project with the community of Asbury Park and beyond.

Remembering 9/11 After Twenty Years and Civics Project Incorporating the Better America Project

In remembering 9/11, Mr. Wronko showed all the students a minute-by-minute video of how the events on 9/11 unfolded. As watching these events happen, the students could not believe that all took place on one day. The video that was shown: Remembering 9/11, Minute by Minute – YouTube.

The victims on this day as we all agreed would never be forgotten. Below were past 9/11 posts honoring those who lost their lives on this tragic day.

GHANA SESSION: OIADA’S GLOBAL VILLAGE KICKOFF SESSION WITH MR. CHUCK ROBBINS, CEO OF CISCO/REMEMBERING 9/11 DURING A PANDEMIC/STUDENT SUCCESS DURING PANDEMIC – Unheard Voices Magazine

First Ghana Session Of 2019-2020 School Year/18th Anniversary Of 9/11

First Ghana Session for 2018-2019: 17th Anniversary of 9/11

2017-2018 Project Ghana: First Session Remembering 9/11/01

Ghana Special Session: Remembering 9/11

Asbury Park Middle School students pay their respects to the victims of 9/11

A Better America Project (Images from NASA and History.com:

Katherine Johnson whose hard work led to the moon landing!) 

In addition to 9/11, Mr. Wronko’s students shared their reports on multiple individuals who helped shape American culture for the better. These reports not only stressed the meaning of the A Better America project but also this project now was being incorporated into a civics study. The civics study would now help students share the culture of the A Better America project not only with Asbury Park but also on an international basis starting with Ghana. Their reports were based on the following:

Black Lives Matter

Chadwick Boseman

Jackie Robinson

Thurgood Marshall

James Brown

Tuskegee Airmen

54^th Massachusetts Regiment

Nelson Mandela

Barack Obama

Martin Luther King Jr.

Muhammad Ali

Mary W. Jackson (NASA)

Katherine Johnson (NASA)

Dorothy Vaughan (NASA)

Jeanette Epps

Mae C. Jemison

Kizzmekia Corbett

Don Shirley

Kamala Harris

Yvette McGee Brown

Buffalo Soldiers (1866)

Malcolm X

Bernice King

Joseph Cinque

Frederick Douglass

Kobe Bryant

Duke Ellington

Louis Armstrong

Miles Davis

Shirley Chisholm

Maya Angelou

Phillis Wheatley

Rebecca Lee Crumpler

John Lewis

James McCune Smith

Louis T. Wright

Michael Jordan

Lebron James

Vivien Thomas

May Edward Chinn