Banned Books: Lessons and Links

Banned Book Lists and Lessons

by Alan Haskvitz

http://www.reacheverychild.com/alan.html

The power of the writing word has caused a great many legal cases challenging the First Amendment. A discussion about these cases and the books involved is an excellent opportunity for students to learn about the legal process and see different viewpoints.

What I especially like about this topic is that shows how society’s values change over time and enables students to develop an appreciation for standing up for one’s rights. As always preview these resources with the child and parents in mind. And there is a need to explain to the students that a banned book and a challenged book are not the same. As always, follow the directions of your administration.

Teachers and the Law

Legal cases that all educators and parents should know about.

http://www.reacheverychild.com/feature/teacher_law.html

The American Library Association Page

Includes a list of frequently banned books plus ideas and resources and a calendar of events.

http://www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/banned/bannedbooksweek/index.cfm

Books Suppressed by Legal Authorizes

For older students. Really quite interesting to see the differences in various countries as well as in the past.

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/banned-books.html

History of Book Banning

http://www.freedomtoread.ca/links_and_resources/bannings_and_burnings.asp

Recent censorship

Includes banned books and authors.

http://banned-books.com/bblist.html

Banned Children’s Books

Includes Goosebumps, My Brother Sam is Dead, Gulliver’s Travels, and

Harriet the Spy among others

A link page for older students

http://www.booksatoz.com/censorship/banned.htm

Classic books that have been banned.

http://classiclit.about.com/od/bannedliteratur1/Banned_Books_Censorship.htm

Banned book and censorship resources

For older students

http://www.georgesuttle.com/censorship/

The Controversy over Harry Potter

http://www.kidspeakonline.org/fighthp_zeeland.html

How to deal with Censorship in Schools

Includes ideas and links.

http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr031.shtml

Lesson Plans

http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=410

When Books Burn

Lessons and Links

http://www.library.arizona.edu/exhibits/burnedbooks/

Reasons to teach about banned books

http://step.evergreen.edu/tescind/censorshiplesson.htm

Banned Book Webquest

http://education.iupui.edu/webquests/books/banned.htm

Webquest for older students

http://www2.gvsu.edu/~zoellmee/webquest/

 

Free pre-algebra workbooks for teachers

By Alan Haskvitz, nationally recognized educational consultant

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Haskvitz

I will have free math workbooks based on car prices to help students in grades 6-9 available soon. If you would like to get a free copy of this workbook just email me through my site,

http://www.reacheverychild.com

and click on my name.There are no ads in this workbook and it has a full color cover and was written with the help of two
California teachers of the year who are practicing math teachers. No gimmicks even shipping is free in classroom sets, too.

 

Online math help, homework sites, algebra links, more

Finding Online Help with Math and Algebra

By Alan Haskvitz, motivational speaker.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Haskvitz

blog address http://carfamily.wordpress.com

If you are interested in getting a free preAlgebra practice workbook scroll down to the bottom of these links. No gimmicks and no charges. Even shipping is free.

Math is one area in which parents and students are always seeking additional help. As such I have put together an extensive list of resources and placed them here. They include homework help, basic foundation practice, and advanced math practice as well as games. They are placed at this site due to space restrictions.

General site

http://www.reacheverychild.com/math/index.html

Math for fun

http://www.reacheverychild.com/math/fun/index.html

General Math help sites

http://www.reacheverychild.com/math/general/index.html

Math for beginners

http://www.reacheverychild.com/feature/math.html#1

Elementary and middle school math

http://www.reacheverychild.com/feature/math.html#2

K-12 math links

http://www.reacheverychild.com/feature/math.html#3

Math teacher links

http://www.reacheverychild.com/feature/math.html#4

Puzzles and activities

http://www.reacheverychild.com/feature/math.html#4

Math and architecture lesson plan

Great for all levels.

http://www.reacheverychild.com/lessonplans/plan6.html

Higher level math

http://www.reacheverychild.com/math/higher/index.html

Printable flash cards

http://www.reacheverychild.com/feature/printables.html

Primary math links

http://www.reacheverychild.com/feature/primary_resources.html#4

Math grants

http://www.reacheverychild.com/feature/grants.html

Math homework help sites

http://www.reacheverychild.com/homework.html

Are you interested in getting a free pre-Algebra workbook that is over 100 pages and does not contain any ads? My publisher is going to make them available at the end of summer in classroom sets. Just email me through my site http://www.reacheverychild.com and click on my name. It automatically connects you. This is all free and sponsored by the new car dealers association. No gimmicks, no ads, just teacher-to-teacher help.

 

Read Across America Resouces and Dr. Seuss links

Read Across America Resources and Dr. Seuss

Read Across America provides an excellent opportunity to rekindle student interest in reading by using the classic Dr. Seuss books as motivation. These are all on http://www.reacheverychild.com/reading.html

These sites offer suggestions and resources to make the day special and include sections on

Dr. Seuss

Reach Across America information and certificate

Special Reading Section

Kids’ Top 100 Books

Literacy Links

Reaching Themese

Teacher’s Top 100 books

Reading suggestions and more

Click on http://www.reacheverychild.com/reading.html

 

The Ultimate Diary Lesson Plan: Anne Frank and More

The Ultimate Diary Lesson Plan: Anne Frank and More

Please do not take this material without giving attribution at http://www.reacheverychild.com

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by Alan Haskvitz national inservice presenter

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Haskvitz

The complete unit and all links are here
http://www.reacheverychild.com/lessonplans/plan8.html

This unit is designed to enhance the student’s understanding of The Diary of Anne Frank and enable students to better understand the situation as it might relate to them. To this end, excerpts from other historically significant essays are included. It also can make journal writing more important to the student as he or she sees the relationship between feelings and actions.

The objective of this unit is to expose the student to a variety of ways a diary can be interpreted to gain insight into the writer’s state of mind, the time period the diary was written, and the important of diaries to gaining an understanding of historical events as primary sources. In addition, the unit will make journal writing a more meaningful experience.

The student should be able to produce an essay that compares the various stressful situations that Anne Frank went through and be able to compare and contrast that with other diarists. They should also be challenged with an integrated lesson. For example, if Anne Frank had one poster in her hiding place what would you think it would be of and why?

Overview and Background

Students often assume that a diary is just a means of recording personal observations. Using this unit, students will be able to see that the diary, as opposed to the memor, is a primary source document providing insights into the culture, society, and stresses of the writer and thus a valuable piece of history. Studying this material should provide them with the ability to gather new energy for their diaries, as well as idenfity with the conditions of others throughout time. There is another puzzle to solve. Because diaries aren’t written for other people to read, characters aren’t introduced but just appear with no explanation. You get to figure out who’s who and what’s what. In other words, you can build a picture of the writer yourself. You may wish to have the students draw pictures of what they feel these writers looked like.

Duration: Two weeks for major reading of diaries at the most and related resources. This includes time for discussion, analysis of quotes and linking of past to present. This unit can be done in much less time by reducing variables. There are many links to other diaries from other time periods to help to a compare and contrast unit, too. Very complete unit.

 

Please note: Due to the length of this lesson I have moved it to  http://www.reacheverychild.com/lessonplans/plan8.html

It is easily one of the best units of study.  If you want more information you can email me through the site by clicking on the author’s name at http://www.reacheverychild.com