Description

The Unabomber 

How do you catch a twisted genius who aspires to be the perfect, anonymous killer? How do you take down a person who builds untraceable bombs and delivers them to random targets, who leaves false clues to throw off authorities, who lives like a recluse in the mountains of Montana and tells no one of his secret crimes? That was the challenge facing the FBI.

The man that the world would eventually know as Theodore Kaczynski came to our attention in 1978 with the explosion of his first, primitive homemade bomb at a Chicago university. Over the next 17 years, he mailed or hand delivered a series of increasingly sophisticated bombs that killed three Americans and injured nearly two dozen more. Along the way, he sowed fear and panic, even threatening to blow up airliners in flight.

DIGITAL OR PRINT RESOURCE 

-Cross-Curricular 

-Active Reading Case Study, the focus is on manifesto analysis, his life and  background, and his message.  

-Students will study the case of The Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, who terrorized the USA from 1978-1996.

Active Reading Case Studies can be used in a variety of ways:

-Attention-Grabbing Introduction to the Unit

– Supplement to Forensic Topics

–Enrichment & Extension Activity to challenge students who need more

–Quick & Easy Sub or Emergency Plans

–Homework

–Engaging Non-Fiction Text for Cross-Curricular Implementation