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Intro. to Literature -- To Kill a Mockingbird

Assignment

Do this first, click on Student Resource Center and Biography Resource Center.

AME Church

Brief History of the Church
http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/retrieve.do?subjectParam=Locale%2528en%252C%252C%2529%253AFQE%253D%2528su%252CNone%252C10%2529AME%2BChurch%2524&contentSet=GSRC&sort=Relevance&tabID=T001&sgCurrentPosition=0&subjectAction=DISPLAY_SUBJECTS&prodId=SRC-2&searchId=R3&currentPosition=2&userGroupName=dist214&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&sgHitCountType=None&qrySerId=Locale%28en%2C%2C%29%3AFQE%3D%28ke%2CNone%2C10%29AME+Church%24&inPS=true&searchType=BasicSearchForm&displaySubject=&docId=EJ2127700329&docType=GSRC

Richard Allen
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3p97.html

AME Church
http://www.ame-church.com/about-us/

Foot Washing Baptist
http://primitivebaptist.info/mambo//content/view/35/38/#Feet_Washing

Birds

Northern BobWhite
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Northern_Bobwhite.html

Quails
http://www.worldbookonline.com/wb/Article?id=ar454080&st=northern+bobwhite

Bob-White call
http://www.worldbookonline.com/wb/Media?id=au000069&st=bob-white

Mockingbird
http://www.worldbookonline.com/wb/Article?id=ar365800&st=mockingbird

Northern Mockingbird
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Northern_Mockingbird.html

Mockingbird call
http://www.worldbookonline.com/wb/media?id=au000062

Diseases

Tapeworm
http://www.healthatoz.com/healthatoz/Atoz/common/standard/transform.jsp?requestURI=/healthatoz/Atoz/ency/tapeworm_diseases.jsp

Taeniasis (Tapeworm)
http://www.dpd.cdc.gov/dpdx/HTML/Taeniasis.htm

Pediculosis
http://www.dpd.cdc.gov/dpdx/HTML/HeadLice.htm

Head Lice
http://0-www.nlm.nih.gov.catalog.llu.edu/medlineplus/headlice.html

Ringworm
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001439.htm

Ringworm of the body
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/ringworm/DS00489

Hydrophobia
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/rabies/DS00484

Rabies
http://www.cdc.gov/rabies/

Civil Rights Movement 1

Jim Crow Movement
jimcrowmovement.html

The Rise & Fall of Jim Crow
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/

"Jim Crow" laws
http://www.nps.gov/archive/malu/documents/jim_crow_laws.htm

Little Rock desegregation crisis
littlerock.html

On the Front Line
http://pbskids.org/wayback/civilrights/features_school.html

Little Rock 50th anniversary
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14158264

Little Rock Historic Site
http://www.nps.gov/nr//travel/civilrights/ak1.htm

Civil Rights Movement 2

James Meredith
Assorted biographies on Meredith. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC?vrsn=149&OP=contains&locID=dist214_biorc&srchtp=name&ca=2&AI=U13648958&NA=meredith%2C+james&ste=4&tbst=prp

James Meredith
jamesmeredith.html

Get on the Bus -- Freedom Riders
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5149667

Sit-ins, Freedom Rides, and Demonstrations
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart9b.html

Rosa Parks -- Montgomery
http://teacher.scholastic.com/rosa/index.htm

Montgomery Bus Boycott
http://www.montgomeryboycott.com/frontpage.htm

March from Selma to Montgomery
http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/retrieve.do?subjectParam=Locale%2528en%252C%252C%2529%253AFQE%253D%2528su%252CNone%252C18%2529montgomery%2Balabama%2524&contentSet=GSRC&sort=Relevance&tabID=T001&sgCurrentPosition=0&subjectAction=DISPLAY_SUBJECTS&prodId=SRC-2&searchId=R2&currentPosition=6&userGroupName=dist214&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&sgHitCountType=None&qrySerId=Locale%28en%2C%2C%29%3AFQE%3D%28KE%2CNone%2C18%29montgomery+alabama%24&inPS=true&searchType=BasicSearchForm&displaySubject=&docId=EJ2104241542&docType=GSRC

Selma to Montgomery
http://www.nps.gov/archive/semo/freedom/

The Great Depression

Timeline of the Great Depression
A timeline of the depression from 1929 to 1940. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rails/timeline/index.html

The Great Depression
Information, images, and a photoessay highlighting the Depression. http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/depression/depression.htm

NRA
nra.html

NRA - 1930's
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=472

WPA
http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/wpa/wpa_info.html

WPA Murals
http://www.wpamurals.com/

People & Events: WPA
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dustbowl/peopleevents/pandeAMEX10.html

"Only thing we have to fear"
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5057/

FDR
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/fr32.html

Geography

Alabama State Map
http://geology.com/state-map/alabama.shtml

Alabama: Official state site
http://www.alabama.gov/portal/index.jsp

Mississippi State Map
http://geology.com/state-map/mississippi.shtml

Mississippi: Official state site
http://www.mississippi.gov/

Harper Lee

Harper Lee
Multiple biographies about the author. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC?vrsn=149&OP=contains&locID=dist214_biorc&srchtp=name&ca=6&AI=U13674607&NA=lee%2C+harper&ste=4&tbst=prp

NYT: Harper Lee
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/30/books/30lee.html

KKK

Klan spreads terror in the South
klanspreadsterror.html

Revival of the Ku Klux Klan
klanrevival.html

History of the Klan
kukluxklan.html

Legal Terms

Law.com Dictionary
Enter a legal term to find the definition. http://dictionary.law.com/

U.S. Courts: Commonly used terms
http://www.uscourts.gov/library/glossary.html

Lawyers.com: Glossary of legal terms
http://research.lawyers.com/glossary/

People

Brigadier General Joe Wheeler
http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC?vrsn=149&OP=contains&locID=dist214_biorc&srchtp=name&ca=3&c=1&AI=U13726444&NA=wheeler%2C+joseph&ste=12&tbst=prp&tab=1&docNum=BT2310000862&bConts=43

Governor William Wyatt Bibb
http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC?vrsn=149&OP=starts&locID=dist214_biorc&srchtp=name&ca=1&c=1&AI=U14377293&NA=Bibb%2C+William&ste=12&tbst=prp&tab=1&docNum=BT2310017807&bConts=33

Colonel Tom Heflin
http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC?vrsn=149&OP=starts&locID=dist214_biorc&srchtp=name&ca=2&c=1&AI=U14531395&NA=heflin&ste=12&tbst=prp&tab=1&docNum=BT2310011538&bConts=33

General Braxton Bragg
http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC?vrsn=149&OP=starts&locID=dist214_biorc&srchtp=name&ca=5&c=1&AI=U13684933&NA=bragg&ste=12&tbst=prp&tab=1&docNum=BT2310017248&bConts=35

Lydia E. Pinkham
http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC?vrsn=149&OP=starts&locID=dist214_biorc&srchtp=name&ca=3&AI=U13745652&NA=pinkham&ste=4&tbst=prp

More People

Eleanor Roosevelt
http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC?vrsn=149&OP=starts&locID=dist214_biorc&srchtp=name&ca=1&AI=U13035979&NA=roosevelt%2C+eleanor&ste=4&tbst=prp

First Lady: Eleanor Roosevelt
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/firstladies/ar32.html

Robert E. Lee
http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC?vrsn=149&OP=starts&locID=dist214_biorc&srchtp=name&ca=7&AI=U14048283&NA=lee%2C+robert&ste=4&tbst=prp

Robert Edward Lee
http://www.stratfordhall.org/rel.html?HISTORY

William Jennings Bryan
http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC?vrsn=149&OP=contains&locID=dist214_biorc&srchtp=name&ca=4&AI=U13688082&NA=bryan%2C+william&ste=4&tbst=prp

William Jennings Bryan -- lawyer
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scopes/bryanw.htm

J.D. Rockefeller
http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC?vrsn=149&OP=contains&locID=dist214_biorc&srchtp=name&ca=8&AI=U13309195&NA=rockefeller&ste=4&tbst=prp

John D. Rockefeller
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rockefellers/peopleevents/p_rock_jsr.html

Herbert Hoover
http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC?vrsn=149&OP=contains&locID=dist214_biorc&srchtp=name&ca=20&AI=U13003472&NA=Hoover&ste=4&tbst=prp

President Herbert Hoover
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/hh31.html

Plants

World Book Online
Search for each plant, use the singular word instead of plural. http://www.worldbookonline.com/wb/home

USDA Plant Database
Search for plants by their common name. http://plants.usda.gov/

American Holly
http://www.na.fs.fed.us/pubs/silvics_manual/volume_2/ilex/opaca.htm

Asafetida
http://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/a/asafe070.html

Smilax
http://www.sfrc.ufl.edu/4h/Smilax/smilax.htm

Camellias
http://hgic.clemson.edu/factsheets/HGIC1062.htm

Hickory Nuts
http://www.cas.vanderbilt.edu/bioimages/pages/carya-fruits.htm

Turnip Greens
http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=144

Scuppernongs
http://scuppernongs.com/_wsn/page2.html

Azaleas
http://www.azaleas.org/azaleas.html

Chinaberries
http://plants.ifas.ufl.edu/melaze.html

Collards
http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=138

Rosetta Stone

Rosetta Stone
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/egyptians/decipherment_02.shtml

World Book: Rosetta Stone
http://www.worldbookonline.com/wb/Article?id=ar475840&st=rosetta+stone

Jean-Francois Champollion
http://www.worldbookonline.com/wb/Article?id=ar105760&st=rosetta+stone

Discovery of the Rosetta Stone
http://www.napoleon-series.org/research/miscellaneous/c_rosetta.html

Superstition

World Book: Superstitions
http://www.worldbookonline.com/wb/Article?id=ar540360&st=superstitions

Old Superstitions
http://www.oldsuperstitions.com/

Common Superstitions
http://csicop.org/superstition/library/common.html

Urban Legends & Superstitions
http://urbanlegendsonline.com/superstitions.html

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Last updated: February 12, 2008
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