Andrew Trenkle
Social Science
847-692-8138
Hiya!...
and welcome...... from the 3 coolest people of all time... now on to the resources....
Grammar and Writing Tips that you may have missed in English class but actually do need to know
1. http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/
4.
1. AP US/COMPARATIVE GOVERNMENT RESOURCES
Links
AP College Board Briefing Papers found online at http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/members/courses/teachers_corner/42256.html and my website.
AP Comparative Government course homepage: what the college board wants you to know: http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/courses/teachers_corner/2258.html.
Key Magazines:
Websites:
Journals:
Other:
Fareed Zakaria interviews world leaders at Davos
http://delicious.com/CompGovPol
http://compgovpol.blogspot.com/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sharecompgovpol/
Comparative AP Questions from Previous Years
Comparative Sweet Powerpoints
The US From A Comparative Perspective
The United Kingdom and Ireland
Post-Communism: We didn't use this one in class, but it's another one I have.
Russia History (Soviet Stuff too)
Old China slides: I actually think this one may be more straightforward, maybe my first draft was better.
Nigeria: Version 1, more detailed
Nigeria: Version 2, more of an overview
Comparative Awesome Calendars
Excellent AP College Board Resources for Comparative Government
Wood's Class Page (Good Review)
Teaching Comparative Government Blog
Comparative Government Old AP Exams
Other Comparative Gov Class Resources
Question Time, Blair, and Thatcher Links
http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page306
http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page12044
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZzcfmlaPHg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDUVhkUkLGY&feature=PlayList&p=FE5647C896A232E4&index=0&playnext=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpdbEK3E4U8
AP US GOVERNMENT RESOURCES
Class Links
Civil Rights
Barack Obama on Race in America
Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights
Illinois Politics
Illinois Democratic Gubernatorial Debate ABC7
State of the Union
2010 State of the Union at NPR http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123051953
NPR Coverage of 2010 State of the Union
List of Interest Groups by Topic http://usgovinfo.about.com/blorgs.htm
List of Interest Groups http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/la-politics-politicalsites,1,3325620.htmlstory
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/01/17/washington/20090117_ADDRESSES.html?hp Inaugural Bubbles
http://www.dirksencongressionalcenter.org/
http://www.economist.com/research/articlesBySubject/display.cfm?id=7933596
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2008/11/02/magazine/02wwln-lede.graphic.ready.html
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2008/
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/11/02/opinion/20081102_OPCHART.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EAyiA5Rmf0
Illinois Civic Education Blueprint
McCain-Obama Stump Speech Analysis
Bill of Rights Institute and Current Events
1st amdmt current events and First Amendment Center
National Archives, the Declaration
PBS Series: Some good links
Library of Congress: Good stuff on various aspects of history and government
The Last Abortion clinic Frontline
How to Elect the President in Plain English
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/fedhis.html Government documents in history, lots of resources
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm Avalon site, great for documents
http://www.servat.unibe.ch/law/icl/info.html International Constitutions
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwjclink.html Journals of the Continental Congress
http://www.archives.gov/presidential-libraries/ Presidential Libraries.
http://www.archives.gov Government Archives
http://www.vlib.us/amdocs/ Documents in chronological order from American history
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/charters.html Charters of Freedom Site
Exploring Issues in Constitutional Law (scroll all the way down, good essays on many specific topics)
Constitution.org (links and pages exploring many issues)
Liberty Library (great for unit one, lots of documents on Constitutional Development)
Consource (links to the Constitution, documents online, and also Madison's notes)
Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty
The Wall Street Journal (Be sure to go to Politics Page and Opinions)
Maine South Library Databases (EBSCO for articles, Newsbank for facts and figures, Issues and Controversies, and Tribune Historical Archive, and Historical Newspapers Archive are all wunderbar)
TheHill.com (inside baseball but can be good)
NPR.org (National Public radio has some great programs on lots of topics)
Justice Learning (good resources and information on legal and Constitutional issues)
Justice Talking (great programs on law and the Constitution)
Opensecrets.org (campaign donations, etc.)
Nara.gov (Presidential archives)
Findlaw.com (court case database)
oyez.org (current cases, as well as adatabase on constitutional issues and decisions)
ontheissues.org (candidate positions)
Livingroomcandidate.com (campaign commercials in history)
Politicalcompass.com (general resources and quizzes on where your views put you)
politicalindex.com (a bunch of raw information and some nice explanations of how the political system works)
pollingreport.com (all about polls)
270toWin Historic results of the electoral college, also some great information on third parties
FiveThirtyEight Election predictions and commentary
Daryl Cagle Political Cartoons
Concord Coalition Federal Budget
Democratic/Liberal Sites/Blogs
Republican/Conservative Sites/Blogs (special thanks to Mr. McArthur)
townhall.com - the blogs by Hugh Hewitt, Dennis Praeger, and Michael Medved tend to be pretty thoughtful and reasonable.
Powerline.com - a group of bloggers who tend to be pretty thoughtful and well-informed
Hotair.com - more of a "new media" approach; very stylish, with audio and video; has some good conservative bloggers working for it, including Ed Morrisey, who used to have his own blog, "Captain's Quarters"
http://www.conservatismtoday.com/my_weblog/2008/08/conservatism-to.html
AP US Government
Powerpoints
Powerpoint #1, Why am I here, introduction to the study of government
Powerpoint #2, Colonial Foundations of US Government
Powerpoint #3, The Constitutional Convention
Calendars
Unit Two Calendar, The Founding of the United States, Influences and Issues
Unit Three Calendar, Political Behavior, Elections, and Participation
2. CONSTITUTION TEAM
Center for Civic Education Page - go here for questions from prior years. Check them out
Companion to Book with References and Cases!
Research Guides
Public Speaking
Free Response Guides and Old Free Response Questions
Helpful Guides
Illinois Guide to Improve Civics in schools
Justice Story, Analysis of the Constitution, important
A Guide to Polling from the Gallup Organizaiton
Very helpful Harvard Law School Constitution Class Outline (large)
6th amendment overview at Findlaw
Summary of Books on Historiography of the Constitution, Economics debated
Case Law Association, part two
Case Law Due Process and Equal Protection List
Key Articles on The Presidency
Articles and Essays
Breyer and Interpreting the Constitution
Critique on the Failure of the Founders
Role of the Court, Independence, Originalism, etc.
Resources on the Founding
Law and US History Const Era Websites
Kaminski Declaration and Preamble
Wood, Purposes of Government before Constitution
Where in the Constitution? Exercise
Slavery and the Constitution
Citizenship and Slavery early sources
Finkelman Importance of Slavery
Zuckert Slavery and the Constitution
Commentaries on Fugitive Slave Law, Justice Story
Dred Scott Case
Dred Scott, making a federal case
Dred Scott, failure of justice
SPECIAL SUPREME COURT SECTION
Selected On-Line Resources for Teaching about
The Supreme Court of the United States
Last updated June 2008 by the Constitutional Rights Foundation Chicago. 1
Supreme Court of the United States
In 2000, the Court introduced its own web site. Since then the site has experienced a number of
improvements and is now a good place to start when looking for information. While not a source for finding
opinions prior to 2000, it does include a variety of no-where-else information about the work of the Court,
such as full transcripts of recent oral arguments, where to obtain briefs, and the Court’s automated docket. It
also features interesting tangential subjects, including visiting hours in Washington, maps, photo
collections, and internships.
http://www.supremecourtus.gov
Historic Decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court
The Legal Information Institute at Cornell University has an on-line excellent collection of over 300 U.S.
Supreme Court decisions of historic significance. This collection is particularly useful for cases before 1893.
The collection includes Marbury v. Madison, McCulloch v. Maryland, Scott v. Sandford, Slaughterhouse Cases,
and other hard-to-find decisions. The collection is listed alphabetically by the first party in each decision.
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/cases/name.htm
FindLaw’s Supreme Court Resources
FindLaw maintains a searchable archive of every decision of the U.S. Supreme Court since 1893 (U.S.
Supreme Court Decisions: US Reports 150-, 1893-) that is browsable by year and US Reports volume number
and is searchable by citation, case title, and full text. It also features great resources. In their own words,
“This is a free service that will remain free." You may never photocopy another volume of US Reports again.
http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/supreme.html AND
http://supreme.lp.findlaw.com/supreme_court/resources.html
Justia US Supreme Court Center
Quite simply, every decision of the Supreme Court of the United States. The site is still in beta format but
offers a completely searchable version of United States Reports, the official record of the Court. Great
resource for older decisions of the Court.
http://supreme.justia.com/
Duke Law Supreme Court Online
The site is geared towards teaching the general public about U.S. Supreme Court decisions. There are “plain
English” descriptions of the certiorari grants (including facts and legal issues), the full text opinion as well
as edited opinions which are quite user friendly. The site also includes commentary from legal scholars
about the impact of the decisions.
http://www.law.duke.edu/publiclaw/supremecourtonline/
Annotated Constitution
FindLaw has taken the Congressional Research Service’s excellent 1992 resource The Constitution of the
United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation, updated it, and posted it on-line. This site features the
complete text of the United States Constitution explained almost line by line, with relevant sources,
precedents, analysis, and interpretation.
http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/constitution
Balkinization
Hosted by Jack Balkin, a professor at Yale Law School, this blog features both his thoughts and those of
other law professors on decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court and other trends in the law.
http://www.balkin.blogspot.com/
On the Docket
On the Docket, run by Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, provides articles on cases
currently before the U.S. Supreme Court including features on selected cases. Past decisions can be searched
using case lists by year. The site includes links to other law related sites and news sites.
http://docket.medill.northwestern.edu/
Selected On-Line Resources for Teaching about
The Supreme Court of the United States
Last updated June 2008 by the Constitutional Rights Foundation Chicago. 2
Oyez Project
Created by political science professor Jerry Goldman at Northwestern University, this site offers a
multimedia archive devoted to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Project aims to be a complete and authoritative
source for all audio recorded in the Court since the installation of a recording system in October 1955. It
also provides authoritative information on all justices and offers a virtual reality 'tour' of portions of the
Supreme Court building, including the chambers of some of the justices. Free audio software can be
downloaded from the site. Amaze your friends.
http://www.oyez.org/
Landmark Supreme Court Cases
Developed jointly by Street Law, Inc. and the Supreme Court Historical Society, this site is designed to
provide teachers with a full range of resources and activities to support the teaching of 17 decisions,
including Marbury v. Madison, Brown v. Board of Education, and U.S. v. Nixon. Standard resources for each
case include background summaries and questions for three different reading levels; diagrams of how cases
moved through the court system; excerpts from the majority [and where appropriate] the dissenting
opinions; and links to the full text of the Supreme Court's decisions. Ideally suited for the classroom teacher.
http://www.landmarkcases.org
PBS: The Supreme Court
This website is a companion to the PBS documentary The Supreme Court, which follows the history of the
Court from its inception through the Rehnquist Court. The Web-based activities for students, downloadable,
free lesson plans and discussion guides, an overview of the Court and its most historic decisions.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/supremecourt/educators
SCOTUS Blog and SCOTUS WIKI
SCOTUS Blog provides timely information on current cases before the Court including links to relevant
editorial pieces and news on those cases. There are also links to other Supreme Court sites and several news
sites. As its name suggests, SCOTUS WIKI is a wiki devoted to the current cases of the Court. Both are great.
http://www.scotusblog.com
Slate Jurisprudence
Slate.com hosts a regular column by Dahlia Lithwick called Supreme Court Dispatches that provides
engaging and accessible information on current issues before the Supreme Court. Search for “Supreme
Court Dispatches” for articles.
http://www.slate.com
Supreme Court Historical Society
This site by the Supreme Court Historical Society contains extensive information on the history of the
Supreme Court and how it became the Court it is today. The site has biographies of justices as well.
http://www.supremecourthistory.org
Supreme Court Preview
This site, maintained by the American Bar Association Davison for Public Education, features expert analysis
of the issues, background and significance of every case slated for oral argument in the U.S. Supreme Court.
Excellent links to other on-line resources, plus order information for ABA’s Preview magazine, a “must have”
for teachers. Ask your librarian to buy a subscription.
http://www.abanet.org/publiced/preview/
Tony Mauro’s Supreme Court Monitor
The Law.com website has a Supreme Court Monitor that provides news and information on cases from this
term. Decisions from cases in the last five years can be found by date or subject. There is also a section of the
site listing cert petitions granted.
http://www.law.com/jsp/scm/index.jsp
3. 'REGULAR' GOVERNMENT INTERNET RESOURCES
Powerpoints
Congress, part two sorry part one was too big for the server... It had most of the powers of Congress, be sure to review
4. ECONOMICS
Wikipedia Article on fractional reserve banking
Understanding a bank's balance sheet
Bank Run, It's a Wonderful Life
Business Lab Project
Top Company Profiles (be sure to search then check the news and financials tabs)
Hoover's Company Search (great stuff on competition, what fuels demand, and even forecasts for future)
Manta Overviews (similar to the others, good tabs on news, finances, executives, and statistics)
Maine South Library Databases (Ebsco probably most helpful. Do a title search first for your company, then a keyword and sort by relevance. Also try newsbank)
Model Powerpoint from last semester
Concord Coalition Federal Budget
INVESTING PLAN
Yahoo Finance: Mutual Funds and Stocks and Bonds
OCCUPATION RESEARCH LINKS
http://www.bls.gov/oco/ This is the site I showed you in class. It has a database you can look at in alpha order, and also a search option. Just scroll down a little bit on the main page. Once you find the occupation, read a little bit about the nature of it and what kinds of skills are required. Near the bottom of the write-up is salary information. That is what you need for your resume.
http://www.collegegrad.com/careers Some profiles of major careers.
http://www.careeroverview.com/ Broken down by industry and occupation. Also a sortable table on the side that may be halepful.
5. RANDOM AWESOMENESS
