Bookmark Contest!
Celebrate your Intellectual Freedom (Your Freedom to Read)!
- You will create a bookmark containing the information below. Then, three winners will be chosen for each grade level.
- BOOKMARK MUST INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING:
1. Title and author of the book.
2. Why do YOU like the book?
3. How did the book make a connection or impact to your life?
4. Why might others disagree with certain content included in the book?
2. Why do YOU like the book?
3. How did the book make a connection or impact to your life?
4. Why might others disagree with certain content included in the book?
Tips for #4
Books are challenged or banned because people don't agree with the content or think it is inappropriate in some way.
For example, Charlotte's Web was banned because a group of parents in Kansas thought that talking animals was unnatural and that "humans are the highest level of God's creation and are the only creatures that can communicate vocally."
Retrieved from http://bannedbooks.world.edu/ Another example is The Lorax by Dr. Seuss. Some thought that this book might influence children to view logging profession (cutting down trees for resources) in a negative way. The book was banned in 1989 in a town in California.
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