Human impact from terrorist activities including intolerance, hate, fear and ignorance.

1. Essential Questions:
Why are terrorist acts
powerful? How do they
impact human feelings,
reactions, and attitudes?

2. Rippling effects of impact:
LOSS

3. Impact Maps
At your table, add ‘rays’ to show
feelings/attitudes resulting from loss.
Brainstorm other effects, either physical or
emotional, individual or global, that occurred
on/after September 11, 2001.
You may use words, phrases, symbols or
sketches.

4. TERRORISM
Human impact Political/Global
impact

5. Essential Questions:
Why are terrorist acts
powerful? How do they
impact human feelings,
reactions, and attitudes?

6. Human Impact stories of family
survivors of 9-11
“Over the days that followed, one thing that was particularly challenging was
the news coverage. The scenes were repeated over and over again – one
particular interview affected me strongly when Fox News found a woman
searching for her loved one at the WTC and asked her ‘do you feel relieved that
we’re going to get these people’. She blanched and said ‘no, my family doesn’t
want to see any more innocent people anywhere in the world go through this.’
She was prophetic.”
“I didn’t do interviews with broadcast networks or newspapers, but I did a letter
to the Boston Globe in the fall of 2001, asking for people to focus more on
compassion than hate; I was disturbed at that point that there was already a
rise in hate crime against Muslims and Middle-Eastern people. Every time
another Middle Eastern family was harmed it felt like a win for terrorism.”

9. ripples of
INTOLERANCE

11. WE THEY
Why is we/they so appealing? What is your response to
George Bush’s remarks to Congress on
September 20, 2001: “Either you are
with us, or you are with the terrorists.”

13. How do we change from hate and fear,
intolerance, and ignorance
to positive ripple effects?
So Much Terror, So Many Brave People, pg. 8

14. not alone
“For the fifth commemoration in 2006, we worked on a
gathering called civilian casualties – civilian solutions,
bringing together representatives of conflict from 17 different
countries. We heard one guy from Rwanda who had
survived the genocide there, talking about how he had
survived. He discussed how he felt, how part of him felt
revenge but when he thought of his family he thought how
they cared for their neighbours. He told us he wanted peace,
and that’s where comfort lies.”

15. forming bonds
“It’s really reassured me to know there were so many
people around the world working hard despite their own
grief; for example we heard from a group called the
Parents’ Circle, comprising bereaved Israeli and
Palestinian families.
To know people in those countries are forming bonds
makes me feel better.”

16. What can we do?
Add words, phrases, actions to our maps that
can be taken to change intolerance, ignorance,
and fear.

17. What do you stand for?
What words can help you or others find
strength and resilience when dealing with loss,
anger, or fear?
“If you stand for
nothing, you fall
for anything.”
Brook Peters,
The Second Day

18. We and They
by Lucille Clifton
page 30, http://peacefultomorrows.org/wp-
content/uploads/2014/04/Change-Agent-
9_11_11-Issue.pdf