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 CasesPlessy 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