1. During his annual address to the UN General Assembly in New York on Friday, what did President Obama say is the single issue that could derail future global progress?

2. What did President Obama call on leaders in Muslim countries to do?

3. What is necessary to combat ISIS, according to the President?

4. What accusation did President Obama indirectly make about leaders in the Middle East and their relationship to terrorists?

5. a) Define UN “resolution.”
b) What resolution did President Obama say the Security Council would adopt?

6. The Arab League has 22 member states.
a) How many Arab states joined the U.S. in its airstrikes against ISIS this week?
b) What role do you think the President should require the Arab states to take in the fight against militant Islamic terrorists?

7. From the last paragraph of the article: “As he urged other leaders to do something about unrest in their countries, Mr. Obama highlighted the violence last summer in Ferguson, Mo., to say the U.S. still has work to do on this front as well. In the wake of the shooting of Michael Brown, Mr. Obama said it was clear to the world that "we have our own racial and ethnic tensions."
a) What does this tell you about President Obama’s view of the U.S. and the world?
b) Ask a parent the same questions.

CHALLENGE: Watch the President’ address to the UN General Assembly. What points did he make that you agree with most? Was there anything with which you did not agree? Ask a parent the same questions.