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This book is centered on the fifteen landmark cases as identified and required for students taking the College Board Advanced Placement® Government and Politics Exam. Reading U.S. Supreme Court cases can be a difficult task, especially in the limited time frame allotted to prepare for the exam. In keeping with the College Board's admonition that students be able to read and understand the high-level language of primary sources, this book engages readers with the original language of the cases in a condensed form with the most integral pieces intact in order to prepare students for the complex thinking and analysis required for the course and the exam. More than simple summaries, these cases maintain the original language and include thought-provoking, challenging, questions to train readers to read like lawyers, not only for the exam, but for the rest of their lives as consumers of new and emerging case law.
List of contents
Introduction: Preparing Students to Read US Supreme Court Cases
Chapter 1- Marbury v. Madison (1803)
Chapter 2- McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
Chapter 3- Schenck v. United States (1919)
Chapter 4- Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Chapter 5- Baker v. Carr (1961)
Chapter 6- Engel v. Vitale (1962)
Chapter 7- Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)
Chapter 8- Tinker v. Des Moines (1969)
Chapter 9- New York Times Co. v. United States (1971)
Chapter 10- Wisconsin v. Yoder (1972)
Chapter 11- Roe v. Wade (1973)
Chapter 12- Shaw v. Reno (1993)
Chapter 13- United States v. Lopez (1995)
Chapter 14- Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010)
Chapter 15- McDonald v. Chicago (2010)
About the Authors
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About the author
Gretchen Oltman is an assistant professor of interdisciplinary studies at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska.
Johnna Graff has over fifteen years of secondary classroom teaching experience, and she currently serves as a high school English teacher at the Science Focus Program in Lincoln, Nebraska. Graff is a 2004 graduate of the University of Nebraska College of Law.
Cynthia Wood Maddux is a former practicing attorney and non-profit executive director. She currently is an English teacher at Lincoln North Star High School and adjunct faculty at Nebraska Wesleyan University.
Summary
This book engages readers with the edited texts of the required 15 U.S. Supreme Court cases necessary to prepare for the AP Politics and Government exam. Guidance is provided to assist with vocabulary, complex legal analysis, reading questions, and extension possibilities to promote thinking about the application of the cases in new settings.
Additional text
Oltman, Graff, and Maddux provide an in-depth analysis that engages the reader to understand the complexity of constitutional law and the processes by which our rights are applied. This book is a must have for supplemental material for the AP Government Curriculum and gives teachers a much-needed complete resource ready to use!
