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Mr. Foley

Health Research Reports

Illegal Drugs

 

 

Drug Research Search Engine

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Mr. Lehtola

Mr. Lehtola's Links:

 

Please click below on the site for today's activities

http://sites.google.com/site/rockridgesci/

Mr. Potthast

Cold War assignment link - The Nuclear Weapon Archive

 

U.S. History assignment link - Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation History

Mrs. Snyder

Mrs. Snyder's Career Research Links

 

Illinois Career Information Systems - Information about 500 + careers with information pertaining to Illinois

Career Cruising - Career guidance and planning information that can be individualized to meet your needs

Bureau of Labor Statistics - http://www.bls.gov

 

 

 

 

Ms. Duyvejonck

Ms. Duyvejonck Web Page

 

 or you can access the site at http://rockridgeschools.org/wpsites/jduyvejonck/

Great American Novels

Listed below are some compliations of great American novels.  We do have some in the library, but we can get books through interlibrary loan.

Time Magazine's - "All Time 100 Novels"  WARNING: some are not American but you can click on each book to read about them.

http://info.infosoup.org/lists/ClassicsForTeens.asp

 

New York Times Article: What is the Best Work of American Fiction in the 25 Years?

PBS - "The American Novel"

 

New York Times: National Book Award Winners Since 1950

1950 Nelson Algren The Man with the Golden Arm
1951 William Faulkner The Collected Stories of William Faulkner
1952 James Jones From Here to Eternity
1953 Ralph Ellison Invisible Man
1954 Saul Bellow The Adventures of Augie March
1955 William Faulkner A Fable
1956 John O'Hara Ten North Frederick
1957 Wright Morris The Field of Vision
1958 John Cheever The Wapshot Chronicle
1959 Bernard Malamud The Magic Barrel
1960 Philip Roth Goodbye, Columbus
1961 Conrad Richter The Waters of Kronos
1962 Walker Percy The Moviegoer
1963 J. F. Powers Morte d'Urban
1964 John Updike The Centaur
1965 Saul Bellow Herzog
1966 Katherine Anne Porter The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
1967 Bernard Malamud The Fixer
1968 Thornton Wilder The Eighth Day
1969 Jerzy Kosinski Steps
1970 Joyce Carol Oates them
1971 Saul Bellow Mr. Sammler's Planet
1972 Flannery O'Connor The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor
1973 John Barth Chimera
1973 John Edward Williams Augustus
1974 Thomas Pynchon Gravity's Rainbow
1974 Isaac Bashevis Singer A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories
1975 Robert Stone Dog Soldiers
1975 Thomas Williams The Hair of Harold Roux
1976 William Gaddis J R
1977 Wallace Stegner The Spectator Bird
1978 Mary Lee Settle Blood Tie
1979 Tim O'Brien Going After Cacciato
1980 William Styron Sophie's Choice
1980 John Irving The World According to Garp
1981 Wright Morris Plains Song
1981 John Cheever The Stories of John Cheever
1982 John Updike Rabbit is Rich
1982 William Maxwell So Long, See You Tomorrow
1983 Alice Walker The Color Purple
1983 Eudora Welty Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
1984 Ellen Gilchrist Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories
1985 Don DeLillo White Noise
1986 E.L. Doctorow World's Fair
1987 Larry Heinemann Paco's Story
1988 Pete Dexter Paris Trout
1989 John Casey Spartina
1990 Charles Johnson Middle Passage
1991 Norman Rush Mating
1992 Cormac McCarthy All the Pretty Horses
1993 E. Annie Proulx The Shipping News
1994 William Gaddis A Frolic of His Own
1995 Philip Roth Sabbath's Theater
1996 Andrea Barrett Ship Fever and Other Stories
1997 Charles Frazier Cold Mountain
1998 Alice McDermott Charming Billy
1999 Ha Jin Waiting
2000 Susan Sontag In America
2001 Jonathan Franzen The Corrections
2002 Julia Glass Three Junes
2003 Shirley Hazzard The Great Fire
2004 Lily Tuck The News from Paraguay
2005 William Vollmann Europe Central
2006 Richard Powers The Echo Maker
2007 Denis Johnson Tree of Smoke
2008 Peter Matthiessen Shadow Country
2009 Colum McCann Let the Great World Spin
2010 Jaimy Gordon Lord of Misrule

1950 Nelson Algren The Man with the Golden Arm
1951 William Faulkner The Collected Stories of William Faulkner
1952 James Jones From Here to Eternity
1953 Ralph Ellison Invisible Man
1954 Saul Bellow The Adventures of Augie March
1955 William Faulkner A Fable
1956 John O'Hara Ten North Frederick
1957 Wright Morris The Field of Vision
1958 John Cheever The Wapshot Chronicle
1959 Bernard Malamud The Magic Barrel
1960 Philip Roth Goodbye, Columbus
1961 Conrad Richter The Waters of Kronos
1962 Walker Percy The Moviegoer
1963 J. F. Powers Morte d'Urban
1964 John Updike The Centaur
1965 Saul Bellow Herzog
1966 Katherine Anne Porter The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
1967 Bernard Malamud The Fixer
1968 Thornton Wilder The Eighth Day
1969 Jerzy Kosinski Steps
1970 Joyce Carol Oates them
1971 Saul Bellow Mr. Sammler's Planet
1972 Flannery O'Connor The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor
1973 John Barth Chimera
1973 John Edward Williams Augustus
1974 Thomas Pynchon Gravity's Rainbow
1974 Isaac Bashevis Singer A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories
1975 Robert Stone Dog Soldiers
1975 Thomas Williams The Hair of Harold Roux
1976 William Gaddis J R
1977 Wallace Stegner The Spectator Bird
1978 Mary Lee Settle Blood Tie
1979 Tim O'Brien Going After Cacciato
1980 William Styron Sophie's Choice
1980 John Irving The World According to Garp
1981 Wright Morris Plains Song
1981 John Cheever The Stories of John Cheever
1982 John Updike Rabbit is Rich
1982 William Maxwell So Long, See You Tomorrow
1983 Alice Walker The Color Purple
1983 Eudora Welty Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
1984 Ellen Gilchrist Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories
1985 Don DeLillo White Noise
1986 E.L. Doctorow World's Fair
1987 Larry Heinemann Paco's Story
1988 Pete Dexter Paris Trout
1989 John Casey Spartina
1990 Charles Johnson Middle Passage
1991 Norman Rush Mating
1992 Cormac McCarthy All the Pretty Horses
1993 E. Annie Proulx The Shipping News
1994 William Gaddis A Frolic of His Own
1995 Philip Roth Sabbath's Theater
1996 Andrea Barrett Ship Fever and Other Stories
1997 Charles Frazier Cold Mountain
1998 Alice McDermott Charming Billy
1999 Ha Jin Waiting
2000 Susan Sontag In America
2001 Jonathan Franzen The Corrections
2002 Julia Glass Three Junes
2003 Shirley Hazzard The Great Fire
2004 Lily Tuck The News from Paraguay
2005 William Vollmann Europe Central
2006 Richard Powers The Echo Maker
2007 Denis Johnson Tree of Smoke
2008 Peter Matthiessen Shadow Country
2009 Colum McCann Let the Great World Spin
2010 Jaimy Gordon Lord of Misrule

 

Ms. Tiffany

Ms. Tiffany  

 

If link does not work, try http://sites.google.com/site/btiff2001/

 

The following pages have the overheads attached for American Government, Medieval History, Psychology, Renaissance History and Sociology.  All relevant tables are also attached.  Please feel free to print them out from home if you wish or you may visit the high school library to print them off  instead of writing down the overhead notes in class.  However, we will be discussing topics in class that you might want to add your own written details to within these overhead notes as well. 

Ancient History

Here are helpful websites for the PowerPoint Presenation. Remember, you may not use Wikipedia.

General Ancient History

Public Broadcasting Empires Series  - Empires Series has information on the Greeks, Romans, and Christians

http://www.pbs.org/empires/

Fordham University - Internet History Sourcebook

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook.html

History Guide - Lectures on Ancient and Early Medieval History

http://www.historyguide.org

Exploring Ancient World Cultures - University of Evansville

http://eawc.evansville.edu/pt

Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University

http://www.carlos.emory.edu/ODYSSEY

Livius - Articles on Ancient History

http://www.livius.org

Discovery Channel's How Stuff Works Web Site

http://history.howstuffworks.com/ancient-civilizations

Ohio State University's Archived Biographies of Famous Ancient People

http://ehistory.osu.edu/ancient/biographies.cfm

About.Com Organized Famous People. Biographies of important ancient people, including Cleopatra, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, and Constantine the Great.

http://www.ancienthistory.about.com

http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/people/Biographies_of_Important_Ancient_People_Famous_People.htm

History for Kids

http://www.historyforkids.org

Ancient Egypt

British Broadcasting Company

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/egyptians

The British Musuem 

http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk

Ancient Greece

National Endowment for the Humanities and Department of Education - 300 Spartans at the Battle of Thermopylae: Herodotus' Real History. 

http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=735

Perseus Online Digital Library through Tufts University

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper

Ancient Rome

http://www.roman-emperors.org

 

Government

Government

Match-o-Matic - Candidates Quiz

 

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/MatchOMatic/fullpage?id=5542139

 

Citizenship Test

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13442226/ 

 

Medieval History Links

The following are helpful sites for Ms. Tiffany's Medieval History Class.

 

Psychology Links

The following are the helpful sites for Ms. Tiffany's Psychology class:

Renaissance History

The following are helpful sites for Ms. Tiffany's Renaissance History class:

Sociology Links

The following are helpful links for Ms. Tiffany's Sociology class: