Book 1 Extra Credit assignment over winter break Essay Can return books to media center if not doing extra credit assignment All books are less than 250 pages You have 65 weeks ID: 721596
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Fiction
Banned Book Literature Circle #2Slide2
Book #1Extra Credit assignment over winter break. (Essay)Can return books to media center if not doing extra credit assignment.Slide3
All books are less than 250 pages.
You have 6.5 weeks to complete the book You will have 1 reading check deadline to keep you on track.Deadline # 1: Dialectical Journals ¾ finished with book
Thursday 1/14 / Friday 1/15 (will go in for 1st semester grade)Deadline #2: Complete book by Monday 2/1
(Discussion Questions + Quiz for 2
nd
semester grade)Slide4
Book Previews
Basic PlotWhy is it controversial / banned in some school districts and libraries?Why is it relevant and why do people care?Slide5
Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The basic plot?Pecola, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair, and brown eyes that set her apart, she yearns for blue eyes that she believes will allow her to fit in. Yet as her dream grows more fervent, her life slowly starts to disintegrate in the face of adversity and strife after the Great Depression. Slide6
Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Why is it banned?IncestProstitutionDomestic ViolenceC
hild molestationRacism Slide7
Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
What’s the big deal?A powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformityAsks powerful questions about societal expectations of beauty, race, class, and genderSlide8
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The basic plot?Holden Caufield
is a troubled rich teenager, who gets expelled frequently. The entire novel takes place over three days as he wanders Manhattan, drinks, and contemplates about the fakeness of American society. Slide9
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Why is it banned?
Profanity
Sex
Alcohol abuse
Prostitution
ViolenceSlide10
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
What’s the big deal?Confusion over teenage yearsQuestions overLoss of innocence, hero-worships, struggles to connect with anyone his own age
Adults are self-important phoniesJ.D. Salinger is a mysterious author, refused movie rightsSlide11
Looking for Alaska by John Green
The basic plot?Miles desperately wants adventure, and he finds it when he gets sent to a boarding school for his junior year. He gets close to friends through smoking,
pranking, and making mischief, but things go escalate quickly.Slide12
Looking for Alaska by John Green
Why is it banned?Sexual ActivityProfanityAlcohol AbuseDrugsSlide13
Looking for Alaska by John Green
What’s the big deal?meaning of love, the power of grief
, hope, and redemptionSlide14
One Who Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Ken Kesey
The basic plot?
Randle
McMurphy
and other’s tales are inspired by Ken
Kesey’s
time as an orderly in an asylum in Menlo Park, CA.
Inmates suffer under authoritarian Nurse
Ratched
; it is the story of any person who has felt suffocated and confined by society’s rigid rules of conformity.Slide15
One Who Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Why is it banned?ProfanityCriminal Activity
Substance AbuseSlide16
What’s the big deal?
Challenges all the “rules” society promotes all to abideQuestions who makes the rules on what is considered “sane” or “ normal”
One Who Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken KeseySlide17
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