Let's Get Ready for 2012

HELPFUL SITES FOR T E A C H E R S
www.brainrules.net/the-rules
www.nylearns.org
http://vital.thirteen.org
www.thinkfinityny.org
www.curriki.org

Supreme Court Cases

www.findlaw.com/casecode/supreme.html

Chicago-Kent College of Law www.oyez.org

G L O B A L I S S U E S
Issue Organizations www.vote-smart.org/issue_group.php
CIA World Factbook www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
Library of Congress Country Studies http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html
U. S. Department of State Background Notes www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/
United Nations www.un.org/


Literature Criticism http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/

NEED HELP with MLA FORMAT? USE the FOLLOWING SITE:
http://telecollege.dcccd.edu/library/Module4/M4-V/examples.htm

*****HISTORY Sourcebook*****
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/

US History Links
http://www.loeser.us/ushist.html

HEROES

What Makes a Hero? http://edsitement.neh.gov/printable_lesson_plan.asp?id=251#LESSON6
Heroes
http://library.thinkquest.org/C001515/
D-Day Heroes
http://www.nationalww2museum.org/pdf/edu_lp_Hero.pdf

VIETNAM WAR Sites (Annotated)
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/vietweb.htm
Vietnam Yesterday and Today http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/history/histw.html
Opposing Views on the Vietnam War http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/pdf/vietnam/vietnam.pdf
PBS - Vietnam www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/reflect/index.html


Food in Shakespeare's Day http://www.foodtimeline.org/foodfaq3.html#general
www.foodtimeline.org/foodfaq3.html#general

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ROARING TWENTIES
Best Site for 1920s
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/lessonplans/programs/greatWarGreatDep/
Jazz Age Culture
http://faculty.pittstate.edu/~knichols/jazzage.html
Harlem Renaissance: A Brief Introduction
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap9/9intro.html
Prosperity & Thrift
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/coolhtml/coolhome.html
Scopes Trial Homepage
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scopes/scopes.htm
Flappers & Harlem Renaissance
http://faculty.pittstate.edu/%7Eknichols/jazzage.html
Brief Timeline of American Literature, Music, and Movies http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/1920m.html

Timelines
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ihas/timeline.html

DRAMA/THEATER SITES
Structure of Greek Tragedy Cornell University Library
www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/grtragedy.html
Ancient Greek Theater Northern Virginia Community College
http://novaonline.nv.cc.va.us/eli/spd130et/ancientgreek.htm

Greek and Roman Comedy Brooklyn College
http://depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/classics/dunkle/comedy/introcom.htm
Introduction to Greek Stagecraft
http://www.didaskalia.net/studyarea/greekstagecraft.html
Drama: The Greek Theatre
http://www.watson.org/%7Eleigh/drama.html
Masks, The Library And The Imagination
http://www.umass.edu/arthist/masks/masks.html
Teatro Olimpico, Europe’s oldest surviving indoor theater
www.photo.net/photo/pcd0803/vicenza-teatro-olimpico-oblique-79
Renaissance & Baroque Theatrical Spectacle (16th, 17th & 18th Centuries)
http://www1.appstate.edu/orgs/spectacle/

Costumes
http://www.siue.edu/COSTUMES/history.html
Theatre History on the Web Univ. of Washington, School of Drama
www.videoccasions-nw.com/history/jack.html