Session Four: The Insurrection of January 6, 2021

 Session Four: The Insurrection of January 6, 2021

Music:"What's Going On, " (Marvin Gay), , feat.Sara Bareilles, Playing for Change Link to site

Essential Questions:

• What happened on January 6, 2021?

• Who were the participants?

• What are the different descriptors of it? Was it an insurrection, tourists or something in between?

• What is the status of the Congressional Committee investigating it?

• What is happening to those arrested?

Gathering: "A question that I have about the events of January 6 is..."

Rick's rap: (homework, In the news)

Speaker: Bennett Clifford, Senior Research Fellow, George Washington University Program on Extremism 

Homework

• Luke Mogelson, "Footage from Inside the Capitol," 1/6/21, New Yorker,  Link to Site

• Ronan Farrow, "A Pennsylvania Mothers Path to Insurrection," New Yorker, 2/1/21 Link to Site

• video, Ronan Farrow, "Who were the rioters on Jan.6th?" Amanpour & Co. 2/10/21 Link to Site

• Bennet Clifford & Jon Lewis, "This is the Aftermath: Assessing Domestic Violent Extremism One Year After the Capitol Siege," Program on Extremism, George Washington University, January 2022,  Link to Site

• Matthew Schwartz,"One in four Americans say violence against the government is sometimes okay, " NPR, 1/31/22 Link to Site

Resources

• Robert Pape & Kevin Ruby, "The Capitol Rioters Are't Like other Extremists," The Atlantic Magazine, 2/2/21 Link to Site

• "What We Saw the Day the Capitol Was Attacked," PBS Newshour , 1/8/21 Link to Site

• video, Katie Van Syckle, NY Times "Insider", 8/14/21 Link to site

• Jill Lepore, "What Should We Call the Sixth of January?," The New Yorker, 1/10/21Link to Article

 • video, "American Insurrection," Front Line/PBS,  1/4/22 Link to Site

• "Capitol Hill Siege," George Washington University Program on Extremism,  8/1/21, Link to Site

• George Washington University Program on Extremism Link to Site

• Robert Pape, "Why we cannot afford to ignore the insurrectionist movement," Chicago Project on Security and Threats, 8/2/21 Link to Site

• Luke Mogelson, 1/15/21,"Among the Insurrectionists," New Yorker, Link to Site

• Timothy Snyder, "The  American Abyss: Trump, the Mob and What Does Next,"  New York Times, 

• Mark Danner, "Reality Rebellion," New York Review of Books, July 2021 Link to article

• Martha Crenshaw, "I've Studied Terrorism for Over 40 Years. Let's Talk About What Comes Next," New York Times, 2/10/21Link to Site

• Thomas Edsall, "White Riot," New York Times, 1/13/21 Link to Site

• website, The Select Committee to Investigate the  January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol, Link to Site

• video, Barton Gellman, "January 6th was Practice," (minute 13-22), PBS Newshour, 12/9/21 Lik to Site

• Barton Gellman, "January 6th was Practice," The Atlantic, January 2022, Link to Site