Session Four; Responding to Terrorism

Essential Questions: 
• What are some policy options for the US? 

• What are the assumptions that drive these options? 

• What are the arguments for and against various options? 

• What are the roots of terrorism?

Gathering: "A question that I have about the rating is..."

Rick's Rap:  homework, roots review

Role Play

Directions

• You are an adviser to the Secretary of State and  participating in a  round table discussion of US Policy options on Responding to Terrorism.

• You will be assigned one of the four options from the packet to present and defend as true believer in that option.

• Read all of the policy options in the packet. (see below)

•  In class, you and your partners will make a short presentation ( several minutes) about the value of your option. The other three option groups will each ask one question of you about your option. Expect a challenge to your position.

• Even though you might not agree with the option that you been assigned, do your best to defend it.

         • Debrief

Closing: "Something that I learned today was..."

Reading:
• Terrorism: How Should We Respond?" Responding to Terrorism: Challenges to Democracy,” Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University, 2011
https://www.choices.edu/resources/documents/terrorism_options_001.pdf