World Trade Center: Class Activity

Dana Medford
Lindsey Burns

Spatial – In the paragraph titled 1.2 WTC site, it describes where the building is specifically by listing what the building is located next to and to what direction. It also gives a graphic showing where the building is located.

General to Specific – The document starts by describing in general what happened to the Trade Center on September 11, to describing in detail specifically what happened to the building when they were hit. It also goes on to explain the types of planes used as well as describing the building around the Trade Center. The graphics in the document at the beginning are pretty general pictures of the site and then they move into more detailed, specific graphics showing what happened to the buildings.

Chronological – The document goes in chronological order according to when the events happened on that day. It starts by describing what was happening before the planes hit, when the planes hit, and after the planes hit. The graphics also go in chronological order showing what happened and when it happened. Also, figure 1-8 gives a good example of a chronological time line, pointing out what happened at what time.