HIT: Banned Bks Lesson

[C Hudak <tinahudak@POSTOFFICE.WORLDNET.ATT.NET>]

Hi Netters,

I received only two replies, but are they great!  I have had so much fun
this week designing a lesson plan incorporating both ideas...basically
talking about the first ammendment and what censorship means, then small
group work where they use the book in a bag idea andhave an activity sheet
to work on, then, back to sharing their experiences and ideas about banning
books and what they have looked at.  The ALA kit has been invaluable for me
too.

Thank you so very much!

Tina HUdak, Librarian
Takoma Park Maryland Public Library
tinahudak@worldnet.att.net

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>I did a very successful lesson with 5th graders on banned and
>controversial books a few years ago.  I showed them some banned picture
>books such as The Rabbit's Wedding (now out of print) by Garth Williams (I
>think...at least the illustrations are by him)in which a black and white
>rabbit get married, Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by Steig which was
>banned in 1968 because the police were portrayed as pigs and we talked
>about why the books were banned or controversial.  Then I pulled from my
>picture book collection books which had something that had been questioned
>at one time or another and had them do an analysis of the picture book,
>including a summary, something about the pictures, the name, author and
>copyright of the book and what they thought might be controversial in the
>books.  Used books such as Smoky Nights by Eve Bunting, etc.  Sorry I don't
>have the list of books I used.  But I didn't necessarily choose books from
>a "banned book" list, but things that I knew some parent or group would
>frown on, such as a book dealing honestly with death.  The kids were very
>interested in the concept of denying anyone the right to read and using
>picture books made it very concrete to them.  They are also only a few
>years away from reading picture books so it brings " old friends" back into
>their sphere.
>

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>he one that worked best for me was to collect some of the banned books for
>that age group listed in the ALA banned books publication and to type out
>the reason for their being banned. I put each book in a brown paper lunch
>bag and stapled it closed with just the reason for the challenge on the
>outside. I let each table of kids choose a few and try to think of what
>kind of book it might be just by reading why they were challenged. They
>were awfully surprised when they got to open the bags and see which books
>were inside.
>
>>Dear Netters,
>>
>>I would appreciate any lessons plans (one 1-hour) for 4/5th graders on
>>anything to do with banned books...freedom of speech...in the vein of
>>banned book month.
>

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