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Ms. Mogan's Links:
Interview:
    Growing Up White in the South in the 1930s (Thinkquest)
    Growing Up Black in the 1930s (Thinkquest)

Jim Crow Laws (About.com)
The Murder of Emmett Till
A Photo Essay of the Great Depression (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaigne)
Summary of To Kill a Mockingbird (enotes)
Biography of Harper Lee (NNDB)
FSA-OWA Photographs (Library of Congress American Memory)





Assignment for Mr. Asnault, Mr. Dolan, and Mr. Mathews

NPR article on the Duke Lacrosse story: Documenting the Duke Rush to Judgement
Scroll to the bottom of the page for related stories.

Atlantic Journal.com article: The Truth About Jena
NPR article on the Jena Six story: 'Jena Six' Case Exposes Town's Racial Tensions
Scroll to the bottom of the page for related stories.


Animal Farm	Top of Page

Character profiles from Animal Farm

Table comparing characters to people during the Russian Revolution


Links for Ms. Ginno-- "Night" by Elie Wiesel	Top of Page

Night by Elie Wiesel

Resource page for Night
Subtopics page for Night

"Wannsee" subtopics page
Possible "Wannsee" papers

Links for Night:
Coming soon....


Hiroshima Unit	Top of Page

BBC website-- Comparing Japanese and American cultures


Links for Ms. Netterville	Top of Page

Vocabulary site


Censorship	Top of Page

American Library Association's (ALA) information regarding book burning. Great site for information regarding 1930's book burning by the Nazis, and the burning of the Maya Codex.

The History Place's site with pictures and information about book burning by the Nazis in 1933.

Papal Index (Index of Forbidden Books) websites: "Vatican Opens Up Secrets of Index of Forbidden Books" (article)
"Secrets Behind the Forbidden Books" article in America: The Catholic Weekly

Thomas Bowdler's The Bowdler Family Shakespeare -- an online exhibit from Occidental College.


Farenheit 451	Top of Page

"Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451 Misinterpreted" -- an article in the LA Weekly discussing Ray Bradbury's refusal to accept his Pulitzer Prize in person, as well as what he considers the "real" theme of Fahrenheit 451 (it's not censorship!).


Jurassic Park Background Information	Top of Page

"Cloning" article in Bioethics for Students


Ms. Carey's classes	Top of Page

Ms. Carey's class:
Ms. Carey's web page

Historical Fiction Writing Project
     20th Century by the Decades
     I read it on the internet .com
     And that's the way it was (with Walter Cronkite)
     This day in history from History.com
    Decades in 20th Century America
    American Cultural History: The Twentieth Century (Kingwood College Library)
    Decades in 20th Century America (Alameda County Library)

Punctuation in dfferent types of sentences

Sentence fragments
see links at bottom of page for exercises

Paraphrasing

Online writing exercises -- from Purdue University's Online Writing Lab (OWL)


Ms. Hollie's projects	Top of Page

Juvenile Violence Timeline website

Information about juvenile offenders from Expert Law website.
It answers these questions and more:
If a juvenile is convicted in adult court, will he be sentenced as an adult?
What happens in juvenile adult?


Egypt Project-- Ms. Hollie	Top of Page

The Egypt Project
Egypt Gods & Goddesses (The British Museum)
Egypt Kings and Queens (Mark Millmore, author of Imagining Egypt)
Absolute Egyptology --Gods, goddesses, dynasties, kings, pyramids, & more
A few more kings & queens-- Ramesses II, Nefertari, Hatshepsut, Ankhesenamun information
Egypt Gods & Goddesses (king-tut.org/uk)
Gods and Mythology of Ancient Egypt --(Tour Egypt)
Ancient Egypt: The Mythology --April McDevitt
Ancient Egypt-- Daily life, hieroglyphics, gods, goddesses, & more (Univeristy of Minnesota)

Life in Ancient Egypt, -- Egypt's location, -- Daily life, -- Gods & religion, -- Funerary customs, -- Mummification, -- Shabtis, -- Weighing of the heart (Carnegie Museum of Natural History)

Egyptian funerary arts, including mummies, shawabti, and coffins (Explore Ancient Egypt-- Museum of Fine Art)

Website Evaluation--
The 5 "Ws" (Kathy Schrock)
Evaluating Web Pages (UC Berkeley)
Website Evaluation (University of Oregon)


Dracula Project-- Ms. Hollie	Top of Page

The Dracula Project
Vlad Tepes: The Historical Dracula --article
Vlad Dracule --article
The Historical Dracula --article by Ray Porter
Dracula tours --places to go
Vlad Tepes -- images

Elizabeth Miller's pages:
Dracula --Homepage
Did you know.... ? -- Welcome to Transylvania
Was Dracula based on Vlad Tepes? --article
Dracula sites in Romania --article
Who is Dr. Elizabeth Miller? --brief biography

Dracula was Framed! -- Blog
The New Annotated Dracula --book for sale
Transylvania and Beyond --book for sale
A Dracula Handbook --book for sale by Elizabeth Miller

meaning of "voivode" --dictionary

Website Evaluation--
The 5 "Ws" (Kathy Schrock)
Evaluating Web Pages (UC Berkeley)
Website Evaluation (University of Oregon)


Author sites for Ms. Ginno	Top of Page

Authors:

Eric Walters
David Pelzer
Go Ask Alice
Walter Dean Myers
Paula Taylor
Alice Childress
Anne Frank
Robert Kurson
Oscar Wilde (also see Grolier Encyclopedia)
Sheree Fitch
Paul Langar (not in Contemporary Authors)
Louise L. Hay (not in Contemporary Authors)

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