To Kill a Mockingbird

SCORE CyberGuild - To Kill a Mockingbird
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/tokil/mocktg.htm
...depicts the themes of misunderstanding and prejudice and this unit presents an opportunity for students to explore these concepts.

To Kill A Mockingbird, Then and Now
http://library.thinkquest.org/12111/
information on the relationship between the social and historical context which influenced Harper Lee, and the ways in which To Kill a Mockingbird makes relevant connections to today. This website contains primary source documents, lesson plans, and student work.

To Kill a Mockingbird Survival Guide
http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/Belmont_HS/tkm/
An annotated text of To Kill a Mockingbird.

Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird
http://mockingbird.chebucto.org/
Links to information on the web on Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird.

A Homework Online Study Guide on To Kill a Mockingbird
http://www.homework-online.com/tkamb/index.asp

Inherit the Wind

Inherit the Wind Home Page
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG97/inherit/intro.html
Scroll down to the bottom of the Home Page of Inherit the Wind and click on Editor’s Preface. At the bottom of the Editor’s Preface is the link to the Table of Contents.

"Inherit the Wind": A Hollywood History of the Scopes Trial
http://emporium.turnpike.net/C/cs/wind.htm
 A comparison of the actual trail to the movie by a member of the Missouri Association for Creation, Inc. This site has a link to the Creation Home Page.

Court

Anatomy of a Murder
http://library.thinkquest.org/2760/homep.htm
This is an online activity in which users follow a murder case from the
discovery of a body through the trial. Users learn about the United States Justice System.

Picturing Justice
http://www.usfca.edu/pj/index.html
provides insightful commentaries on the portrayal of law, lawyers and legal issues in television and movies.

Justice Information Center
http://www.ncjrs.org/
with a link to the NCJRS Abstracts Database.

The Federal Judicial Center
http://www.fjc.gov/
Some great information: history of the courts, descriptions of the different courts and more.

The Legal Information Institute
http://www.law.cornell.edu/
 links to Supreme Court Decisions, American Legal Ethics Library and the Federal Rules of Evidence (http://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/fre/overview.html)

Glossary of Legal Terms from the Fourth Judicial District Court
http://www.courts.state.mn.us/districts/fourth/General/LegalTerms1.htm



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