I really like this scaffolded approach and have used it in a senior capstone course. One thing that I think students appreciated was also doing periodic presentations (~3-5 minutes) to the class with updates on their progress with each section and brief feedback sessions afterwards.

Prior school shootings, including the attack on Columbine High School in 1999, provided narrative resources (cultural scripts) for planning and executing their own attacks

While most rampage shooters had access to guns at home, they were also socialized into gun use through target practice, family activities, and role-playing games involving guns

Surveillance system failures, including attention to threats and limited psychosocial support infrastructures, provided shooters with additional time to plan their attacks

Their social marginalization was exacerbated by psychosocial issues, including childhood traumas and family problems, mental illness and suicidal ideation

Rampage shooters' life histories displayed an overwhelming sense of powerlessness, often driven by their ostracism from valued peer and family groups, teasing, bullying, and experience of gender and sexual identity threats

Rampage school shootings can be distinguished from other school shootings by their duration and lethality, as well as by the factors that underlie them, which include social marginalization, psychosocial issues, surveillance failures, gun access and socialization, and use of cultural scripts