Blindness Lesson Plan

Cheney’s Law

Kind of Activity:

Group Discussion

Objective:

Students will watch a documentary about the US government’s response to 9/11, and discuss how this applies to Blindness.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.11-12.1

Structure:

In today’s reading, we see just how limited the government’s response to the blindness epidemic is: the shortcomings of the quarantine plan are apparent when the first group of inmates arrive, and is exacerbated to its breaking point by the time the hospital reaches capacity.

For this activity, the class will watch an episode of PBS’s Frontline which discusses the US government’s response to the 9/11 attacks,...