Dream Car Project

Use the following links to evaluate the cost for new and used vehicles

Kelly Blue Book
Using this site, you can find the value of new and used cars based on condition, features and mileage. This site is used by insurance adjusters and car dealerships to assess the value of cars that have been totaled in accidents or for trade in values.

Yahoo Cars
Look at used cars for sale or build a brand new car and get a quote for a dealership

Edmunds
Another site to review used and new vehicles - reviews - very well known and trusted source of auto information.

BMW Dealership
Build a new car and get a quote or search used vehicle inventory

Exotic Car Dealers
Here are a few reasons to stay in school and work hard !!!!!!!!! :)

Depression and Suicide Prevention Project

Directions: Develop a poster to display in school on one of these following topics

Solutions for relieving stress in healthy ways

How we can help a friend who is depressed

Signs of depression in teens

Ways to help our school and community to understand teenage depression

Signs of suicide - what you can do to help

Your poster needs to contain key concepts and terms that will help bring awareness to the issue of suicide and teenage depression. Try to be as creative and informative as possible.

Take a look at these resources to help you complete the project:

PBS In The Mix - Depression: On The Edge

National Mental Health Association

National Institute of Mental Health

National Foundation of Depressive Illnesses

American Foundation for Suicide Prevention

National Alliance for the Mentally Ill

SAMHSA

American Foundation for Suicide Prevention

The 1920's: A Decade to Remember?

Student Resource Center

Biography Center

The People History

USHistory-1920s

Eyewitness History-1920's

Dictionary.com


Use the resources to research the following:

KKK Member
What are your beliefs? (Why are you xenophobic?)
What are you trying to represent/protect?
What methods do you use to carry out your goals?
What laws would you support?

Ferdinando Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Describe the circumstances around your arrest?
Why do you feel you did(not) get a fair trial?
What was the final outcome of the trial?

A. Mitchell Palmer
What are you trying to represent/protect?
What methods do you use to carry out your goals?
Explain how the public both supported and opposed your actions.

Important Terms:
Immigration Acts of 1921 & 1924
Palmer Raids
Quota
Racism
Red Scare
Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti
Xenophobia

Flapper
Describe your lifestyle as a "flapper"
How do you respond to those who criticize you?
What are your feelings about the women of earlier, more traditional generations?

Margaret Sanger
What new ideas and attitudes did you encourage women to have?
What opposition have you encountered?

Traditional Woman/Housewife
Describe your lifestyle as a housewife
How do you respond to those who criticize you?
What are your feelings about the young women of the current generation?

Important Terms:
Changing role of women
Flapper
Hedonism
Roaring '20's - this link is good for many of these topics

Henry Ford
What impact has the assembly line had on automobile production?
How have automobiles impacted the average American?
How has the automobile stimulated other business and industries?

Appliance Store Owner
What new technology are you selling to consumers?
How is it affecting your business?
How has installment buying impacted your business?

Average Married Husband/Wife
How has new technology affected your family? (3 examples)
How has installment buying impacted your spending and standard of living?

Important Terms
Advertising
Assembly Line
Installment buying/buying on credit
Leisure time activities
Mass production

Al Capone
What is your view on prohibition?
What activities did you get involved in during this era?
How did you benefit from from these activities?
How did the public view your actions/activities?

Common (drinking) Man
What is your view on prohibition?
What actions/activitiesdid you get involved in during this era?
How much government regulation should there be in your life?

Francis Willard
What is your view on prohibition?
What actions/activities did you get involved in during this era?
How much government regulation shoud there be in your life?

Important Terms
18th Ammendment
21st Amendment
Bootlegging
Gangster
Organized Crime
Speakeasy

Langston Hughes
Describe some of your accomplishments
How did your achievements change the 1920's?
How did your works influence the Harlem Renaissance?

John Scopes
Describe the circumstances surrounding your trial
How did your trial change the 1920's?
How did the public percieve you?

Warren G. Harding
Your policies promised us a return to "normalcy" Why and what does this mean?
How did your policies (domestic and foreign) go about doing this?
How did you change the 1920's?

Important Terms
Creationism
Harlem Renaissance
Normalcy
Scopes Monkey Trial

BIOGRAPHY PROJECT - SUPA

For this assignment, each student will receive the name of an individual who made a significant contribution to American society.

Assignment Purposes:
To come to understand how a particular person's experiences can illuminate our understanding of the period or circumstances in which he/she lived.
To learn to do research of the sort professional historians do; locating, examining, and using appropriate source materials, and presenting one's findings to readers.

Assignment:
Biographical Sketch:
a) A factual account of the person's life, emphasizing aspects that are of historical significance.
b) Provide evidence and explanation of the person's historical contribution(s) and significance.
Evidence must be documented with references and citations to sources.
How and why is this person considered to be important?
What does her or his life tell us about the times in which he/she lived; about important social, scientific, cultural, economic, or politicaldevelopments; about the United States at the time?
Anotated Bibliography:
You are to create a list of reliable and relevant sources that illuminate your person's life and contributions. This list should include the sources that you used for this project as well as others that you can identifiy that may be available for research.

To get started with your research - you will find the following helpful:

Worldcat - a catalogue of material in libraries around the world - create a free account to
use this site.

Library of Congress - search materials of your person - clicking the links provided will give you info you need for your anotated bibliography.

Smithsonian - History & Culture

United States Holocaust Museum

National Archives - follow the link for general public access

Student Resource Center - remote password - empirelink

Biography Resource Center - remore password - empirelink

Use the following links to access the library @Syracuse
You will need your Syracuse ID

Syracuse Library

Your paper should be 5to6 pages in length - consisting of the 2 parts explained above

Sr. English Documented Argument - Mr. Hartmann

Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles (stories from) raise issues related to our world. You will identify a topic brought up in the reading that is currently being debated and discussed in a variety of media at the local, national and global levels.

Here are some examples you may consider:

Anxieties of Suburbia
Imperalism
Racism
Environmental pollution
Censorship
Nuclear arms race/Nuclear capabilities
Cynicism about family life
Pessimism about progress
People in the masses (population as a whole - not individuals)
Sexism/gender roles
Fear of the unknown
Contemporary American values
Euthanasia
Government Control(finance control, forced military service)
Conflict of Science vs. Religion

Your Task:
Use a close analysis of Bradbury's work and what he suggests about a topic only as a point of entry to your own documented argument about some aspect of one of the topics - take your own position only after thoroughly researching the topic and considering the arguments already out there.

Guidelines:
You must use at least 3 credible outside sources - one of which must be a scholarly journal article
Other sources can be books, web sources, magazine or newspaper articles or an interview with an expert

Requirements:
We will work together both in and out of class to generate strong thinking about our topics and to write our ideas as persuasively as possible. Your essay must be 3-5 pages, carefully and consistently edited, typed doublespaced in 12point Times New Roman font. It must include an original title, in-text citations, and a Works Cited page following MLA format.

You must also incude a reflection letter attached to the back of the paper.

Use the following resources to research topics and find good sources:

Opposing Viewpoints

Student Resources in Context

Global Issues in Context

Debate Project - Ms. Frishman

In preparation for your cross-examination debate, you will research the issues, and the essential questions that drive the debate. Collectively, you and your team have discussed and outlined the issues and questions that relate to the proposition.

You must have at least 10 articles that are for and against the proposition. The articles must be from valid websites, or the school library's database collection.
Every member of the team must find at least one article, annotate it and then present the findings to the team so that the team can build their case.

Use the following resources to locate information concerning your topic:::

Opposing Viewpoints

Gale Student Resource Center

ProCon.Org - Drinking Age

ProCon.Org - all issues

Encyclopedia.com- Marijuana

Medical Ethics - Ms. Henck

Use the following sources to find information to support your debate regarding medical ethics.

Opposing Viewpoints Database

Global Issues in Context

Gale Student Resources

American Medical Association

In addition to these online sources the library has books on many of these topics - please ask and we will find them for you!!!