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Housekeeping:

• Project Two due to Roster page AND BLACKBOARD before class on Monday.
• Choose term for PROJECT THREE 
• Mid-ish-Semester Feedback:
• Office Conferences 
• MORE GROUP WORK 
• More discussion/less lecture
• More discussion of project goals/objectives

Agenda:

• Defining Terrorism Then and Now - Contextualizing a Term
• Minute Paper (in class exercise) 
• Choose Your Own Term 

DEFINING TERRORISM THEN AND NOW - changing context since 9/11

Harpham, Geoffrey Galt. "Symbolic Terror." Critical Inquiry (2002): 28.2. 573-79. 

Available on JSTOR through the Wayne State University Library: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1344283  

Symbolic Terror.pdf

Ahmad, Eqbal. "Comprehending Terror." MERIP Middle East Report (1986): 140. 2-5. Web.

Available on JSTOR through the Wayne State University Library: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3012023    

Comprehending Terror.pdf

• Does your interpretation of this article (and it's definition of "terrorism") change when you consider that fact that it was written in 1986, just after the Cold War ended and more than a decade before the present "War on Terror"?  

In class exercise: 

"Symbolic Terror"

1. What word/term/concept/idea is the article you read defining and why?
2.  What does the article offer in defining this idea that has not been (well) covered elsewhere? What is does the author claim is unique about their perspective (on this term)?
3.  What is the audience for this article (be as specific as possible)? 
4. How is your audience likely to feel about this issue/concept before the read your project?
5.  What is the author's purpose in arguing this definition? (I.e, what's their point?)

PROJECT THREE TERMS:  DEFINITION PAPER TERMS

definition resource terrorism 2

"Comprehending Terror"

1. What word/term/concept/idea is the article you read defining and why?
2.  What does the article offer in defining this idea that has not been (well) covered elsewhere? What is does the author claim is unique about their perspective (on this term)?
3.  What is the audience for this article (be as specific as possible)? 
4. How is your audience likely to feel about this issue/concept before the read your project?
5.  What is the author's purpose in arguing this definition? (I.e, what's their point?)
6.  What strategies (pathos appeals, resemblance arguments, etc.) does the author use in making this argument?

Now, use these reading questions to construct a THESIS and an OUTLINE for a hypothetical definition paper on terrorism (write it in the COMMENT section of this page).

Resources for the Definition Paper:

• Course Materials 
• Project Three  
• definition resource terrorism 2
• definition resource marriage  
• definition resource child  

Assignments:

• Project Two is due to your roster page before class Monday

• Meet HERE Monday (we will conduct our "Library Day" online in the classroom).