Culture
2021 – 2022 kick off Ghana Session: Remembering 9/11 after twenty years and civics project incorporating the Better America Project
This session focused on two topics which consisted of remembering 9/11 after twenty years and the beginning of the civic 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.
First Ghana Session Of 2019-2020 School Year/18th Anniversary Of 9/11 – Unheard Voices Magazine
FIRST GHANA SESSION FOR 2018-2019: 17th ANNIVERSARY OF 9/11 – Unheard Voices Magazine
2017-2018 Project Ghana: First Session Remembering 9/11/01 – Unheard Voices Magazine
GHANA SPECIAL SESSION: REMEMBERING 9/11 – Unheard Voices Magazine
Asbury Park Middle School Students Present HOPE – Unheard Voices Magazine
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
54th 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
----------------------------------------------------------
Connect with Unheard Voices on Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, YouTube
Download the app on Google Play or ITunes.
----------------------------------------------------------
Unheard Voices Magazine is a news reporting platform covered under Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research.