For this unit, you may want to check out the following websites to assist you with classwork:
www.americanrhetoric.com (all of our audio comes from this site; well organized, easy to navigate)
http://poetry.about.com/od/audiopoetry/ (a good site for poetry lovers)
http://www.authentichistory.com/ (audio + images...a great resource for American popular culture)
http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/ (FDR's Presidential Library)
http://www.rfkmemorial.org/ (Robert F. Kennedy memorial pages)
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/ (Martin Luther King, Jr. papers project)
http://www.mlkonline.net/ ("Your One Stop Source for MLK on the Net")
http://www.lougehrig.com/ (The official Lou Gehrig site)
http://www.als.ca/ and http://www.alsa.org/ (information about ALS, or "Lou Gehrig's Disease")
http://www.elf.net/bjordan/default.asp (a tribute to Barbara Jordan)
http://www.house.gov/jacksonlee/AllAboutHouston/barbara_charline_jordan.htm (more about Barbara Jordan)
http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=61 (info on Geraldine Ferraro)
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000088 (from the Congressional Bio pages)
http://www.911digitalarchive.org/ (September 11 digital archive. This page is no longer being updated, but it is a great source of other links that you may want to examine)
http://www.september11news.com/ (news archives from September 11)
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/wwii-pac/pearlhbr/pearlhbr.htm (Department of the Navy historical site about Pearl Harbor)
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/pearl.htm (more about Pearl Harbor)
http://www.december7.com/ (an art archive about events surrounding December 7, 1941)
http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/pearlharbor/ (National Geographic site about Pearl Harbor)
http://www.mayaangelou.com/ (Maya Angelou--the Official Website)
http://www.filmsite.org/greatfilmquotes.html (greatest film quotes ever)
http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/archive2.html (greatest speeches ever) (THIS SITE IS EXCELLENT--STRONGLY RECOMMENDED BY MRS. GANN!!)
http://www.filmsite.org/scenes.html (more great film scenes)
**I'll be adding more in coming weeks. Stay tuned!
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