WHAT IS A BANNED BOOK A banned book is a book or other printed works such as an essay or play which is prohibited by law or to which free access is not permitted by other means The practice of banning books is a form of ID: 641448
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Banned Books: Past and presentSlide2
WHAT IS A BANNED BOOK?
A banned book is a book or other printed works (such as an essay or play) which is prohibited by law or to which free access is not permitted by other means.
The practice of banning books is a form of censorship.
Motives for banning books include:political
legal
religious
moralcommercialSlide3
What is a challenged book?
A
challenged book is a book that a person or group has attempted to remove or restrict access to. Challenges do not simply involve a person expressing a point of view; rather, they are an attempt to remove material from the curriculum or library, thereby restricting the access of others.
Due to the commitment of librarians, teachers, parents, students and other concerned citizens, most challenges are unsuccessful and most materials are retained in the school curriculum or library collection.
A
banning is the removal of those materials.Slide4
WHERE ARE BOOKS CHALLENGED?Slide5
BRAINSTORM ACTIVITY
whAT REASONS HAVE
INDIVIDUALS/GROUPS USED TO CHALLENGE/BAN BOOKS?Slide6Slide7
The Things
they carried
Tim O’Brien
The reader is introduced to Lieutenant Jimmy Cross, the leader of a platoon of soldiers in Vietnam. He carries physical reminders of Martha, the object of his unrequited love. A death in the squad causes Cross to reconsider his priorities, and, heartbroken, he burns all reminders of his life outside the war in order to stave off dangerous
distractions.Slide8
THE ABSOLUTELY TRUE
DIARY OF A PART-TIME INDIAN
Sherman
Alexie
The book follows one school year in the life of Junior, a fourteen-year-old
boy
living with his family on the Spokane Indian Reservation near
Wellpinit, Washington; it is told in episodic diary style, moving from the start of the school year through the major holidays and through to the beginning of summer, and it includes both Junior's written record of his life and drawings he makes, some of them comically commenting on his situations, and other more seriously depicting important people in his life.Slide9
thE
BLUEST EYE
Toni Morrison
The story is about a year in the life of a young black girl named
Pecola
who develops an inferiority complex due to her eye color
and skin appearance. It is set in Lorain, Ohio against the backdrop of America's Midwest during the years following the Great Depression. The point of view switches between the perspective of Claudia
MacTeer
, as a child and as an adult, and a third-person omniscient viewpoint.Slide10
WINNIE tHE
POOH
A.A.
Milne
Christopher
Robin
and his
boy animals, led by Winnie the Pooh, have
one
adventure
after another
—everything from filching honey from the
angry
bees to
welcoming
Tigger
(a very bouncy animal),
and consoling
Eeyore
(the gloomy donkey
).
Everything is related in extremely childish (but by no means "cutesy" terms), including bursts of poetry, rudimentary logic, and a great deal of remarkably in-depth character study. Each animal has a district personality: impulsive
Tigger
, neurotic
Eeyore
, no-nonsense Kanga, self-important Rabbit and Owl, humble Piglet, and, of course, direct and simple Pooh. The animals might be any group of typical siblings or playmates and teach, through their adventures, many real life lessons.Slide11Slide12
group assignment
In your group, select a banned book to share about.
Write the title of your book on the board. If the title is already on the board, your group should choose a different book.Use your mobile devices to find
five things:Title, author, and whether it is for children, youth, or adult
50-word summary
Book cover image
YouTube video clip on book (Clip should be no longer than 3 minutes)Locate the video on the instructor’s computer.
Reasons it was challenged/
banned
Be prepared to share your five things with the class.Slide13
SUGGESTIONS
The Great Gatsby
, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Catcher in the Rye
, by J.D. Salinger
The Grapes of Wrath
, by John Steinbeck
To Kill a Mockingbird
, by Harper Lee
The Color Purple,
by Alice Walker
Ulysses,
by James Joyce
The
Lord of the Flies
, by William Golding
1984
, by George Orwell
Of
Mice and Men
, by John Steinbeck
Catch-22
, by Joseph Heller
Brave New World
, by Aldous Huxley
Animal Farm
, by George Orwell
The Sun Also Rises
, by Ernest Hemingway
As I Lay Dying
, by William Faulkner
Gone with the Wind
, by Margaret Mitchell
Native Son
, by Richard Wright
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
, by Ken
KeseySlaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt VonnegutFor Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest HemingwayThe Call of the Wild, by Jack LondonGo Tell it on the Mountain, by James BaldwinAll the King's Men, by Robert Penn WarrenThe Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. TolkienThe Jungle, by Upton SinclairA Clockwork Orange, by Anthony BurgessThe Awakening, by Kate ChopinIn Cold Blood, by Truman Capote A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway
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