1. Feb 24 & 26 FYS class notes

2. Feb 24 Discussion: Terrorist motives  Religion  Cause damage, e.g. financially, mentally  Revenge  Respect  Changing way of life- target country and terror country  To be recognized in world politics, make a political statement  Power to control –  Beat the big guy

3. Terror tactics-limits  Manpower  Weaponry  Using civilians of the target nation

4. Thinking ‘outside the box’  Can a nation’s government commit terrorist acts?  Could wars be considered “terrorism”?  What might be common denominators between for example, the 9-11 attacks and the Iraq War?  What else?

5. Feb 26- Materials  Packet 1: Essay 1 & 9-11 Commission Report:  follow packet to answer Large Group questions and choose a focus for closer reading of excerpts  ToolBox- paragraphs, critical thinking. …

6. Feb 26 Lab #1: announcements & agenda  Next week I will be using and assigning homework from the course ToolBox!  Robert’s demo of getting Office from umb for personal use  Make sure you joined the wiki  Log onto wiki  Options for saving your work for continued use: Google docs, Dropbox, email, Cloud, your own wiki page – what else?  In class Preparing for next Tuesday: post one of your paragraphs from today

7. Packet 1  Essay 1 instructions and options  Connections to Commission Report

8. HW  finish today’s prep for Tuesday:  Have a second paragraph posted  respond to at least one of your peers’ paragraphs  Bring a copy of the paragraphs you posted to class for small group discussion

9. Paragraph Guide  One of Your 2 paragraphs can be from different options listed that we work on  Mandatory: one paragraph based on the Commission Report options for Essay 1 (in Packet 1)

10. Paragraph options  from your Journals that reflect critical thinking about important questions  Use the slides from Tuesdays class to jump start paragraphs  Build on my feedback to your journals  Choose from the next slide…

11. Discussion Prep Options: paragraph topics/questions Do you wonder if Bamford’s framing of Bush’s actions & decisions are “over the top”? How does the US’s poor response on 9-11-01 shed light on the country’s history, attitudes and self-image? Would bin Lade agree that the attack’s were an “inside job” by Bush?

12. Previewing Commission Report Table of Contents together 1) Which chapters address the causes and motivations for terrorist attacks against the US? How do you know? 2) Which chapter clearly includes Iraq? 3) Which other chapters might also mention Iraq or Saddam Hussein? 4) Which Chapters seem to deal mostly with prevention of future attacks? 5) How far back do we see recognition of bin Laden/al Qaeda as an active opponent of the U.S.? 6) Which chapter probably mentions that the President was warned of an imminent or possible attack?