Transcript Landmark Supreme Court Cases PowerPoint Project

Landmark Supreme Court Cases
PowerPoint/Webpage Project
8th Grade Laptop
Humanities
Directions
• Take your assigned court case and identify
the following:
1. What is the key issue addressed
2. Identify/summarize the case and include the minority
(dissenting opinion) and majority decisions
3. What impact on society did the decision have?
4. Create a graphic to symbolize the impact of your case
**You must use at least 3 sites to research your case!
Projects are to be 6-10 slides!!- 3 web layers
Landmark Cases
Plessy v. Fergusen
Engel v. Vitale
Miranda v. Arizona
Brown v. Board of Education
Mapp v. Ohio
Tinker v. Des Moines
Korematsu v. U S
Dredd Scott v. Sanford
Gideon v. Wainwright
Marbury v. Madison
Susan B. Anthony v. US
Texas v. Johnson
Furman v. Georgia
Munn v. Illinois
Board of Educ…, Island Trees School District v. Pico-
Suggested sites to be used for
research
• www.landmarkcases.org
• www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/supreme_court/supreme
_court.cfm
• http://www.oyez.org/oyez/portlet/directory/
• http://www.socialstudieshelp.com/CourtCases.htm
• http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0873869.html
• http://www.supremecourtus.gov/
• http://en.wikipedia.org
• http:www.constitutioncenter.org