June, 2012
Dear Parent/Student:
The administration and department chairpersons have created mandatory summer assignments for all
grade levels. The assignment listed below is for the junior students. Please read the directions carefully
to fulfill the requirements and to be properly prepared for the upcoming school year.
I suggest that your son does not delay in beginning his assignments. The assignment will become
interesting and less stressful if he schedules himself each day to complete a portion of the assignment.
The summer assignments are listed below:
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Read each U.S. Supreme Court Decision and answer the associated questions listed below and
email the typed questions/answers to Mr. O’Riordan at mcclancyproject@yahoo.com by 12:00
noon on Friday, September 14, 2012.
20 U.S. Supreme Court Decisions
Marbury v. Madison (1803) – Use as an example (See Edline)
McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
Slaughterhouse Cases (1873)
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Schenk v. United States (1919)
Korematsu v. United States (1944)
Brown v. BOE of Topeka (1954)
Mapp v. Ohio (1961)
Baker v. Carr (1962)
Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)
Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
Tinker v. Des Moines School District (1969)
New York Times Co. v. U.S. (1971)
Regents of U. of California v. Bakke (1978)
United States v. Nixon (1974)
New Jersey v. T.L.O. (1985)
Texas v. Johnson (1989)
Vernonia School District v. Acton (1995)
Bush v. Gore (2000)
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Assignment:
1. Provide the Constitutional Question. You need to establish what Constitutional questions arose
from the specific case.
2. Provide background information. In a paragraph, summarize the background information of
the case. Included in your first paragraph should be a discussion of which article or amendment
of the Constitution is in question.
3. Provide a summary of their opinion of the court. In a paragraph, summarize the opinion of the
court and the impact that it has had upon American society. You may use any other source you
can locate to help clarify the information.
*Be sure that your background of the case and the opinion of the Court are in your own words.
Under no circumstances are you to cut and paste any material that you find during your
research.
Research:
Cases must be researched on one of the following websites:
http://straylight.law.cornell.edu/supct/index.html
http://lp.findlaw.com
http://www.oyez.org/
Please start your work early in order to have enough time to complete the assignments successfully.
These are very interesting cases that helped shape the United States of America as we know of it today.
Sincerely,
James P. Carey
Principal