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- Celebrating the freedom to read
- Banned Books Week teaches the importance of our First Amendment rights and draws attention to the danger of restricting information in a free society.
- By Melissa Thibault.
- The expansion of slavery and the Missouri Compromise
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 8.8
- By 1820, a growing population gave the North a majority in the House of Representatives, but slave and free states still had equal representation in the Senate. The admission of Missouri to the Union as a slave state threatened that balance, but the "Missouri Compromise" maintained it by admitting Maine as a free state and banning slavery in the Lousiana territory north of Missouri's southern boundary. Page includes a map showing U.S. territorial expansion.
- Format: article
- Reading is for the boys (and girls)!
- This WebQuest for teachers looks at the difficult issue of how to get — and keep — boys interested in reading. It guides you through the research, then looks at text selection and pedagogy and helps you find specific strategies for narrowing the adolescent "literacy gap."
- Format: article
- By Kimberly Bowen.
- Letter of March 16, 1939
- In Tobacco bag stringing: Life and labor in the Depression, page 1.1
- Law Offices Tucker, Bronson, Satterfield & Mays State Planters Bank Building Richmond, Virginia March 16, 1939 Hon. Graham A. Barden, House of Representatives Washington, D.C. In Re: Fair Labor Standards Act. Dear Mr. Barden: I am deeply grateful to you for...
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- A case for reading: Examining challenged and banned books
- Any work is potentially open to attack by someone, somewhere, sometime, for some reason. This lesson introduces students to censorship and how challenges to books occur then invites them to read a challenged or banned book and decide for themselves what... (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
- Provided by: ReadWriteThink
- Censorship in the classroom: Understanding controversial issues
- In this ReadWriteThink lesson, students examine propaganda and media bias and explore a variety of banned and challenged books, researching the reasons these books have been censored. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 10 English Language Arts)
- Provided by: IRA/NCTE
- When Books Burn
- A special collections exhibit that explores book burning and censorship in Germany under the Nazi regime. This exhibition includes historical images, speeches, a timeline, lesson plans, and more. (Learn more)
- Format: website/general
- Provided by: University of Arizona Library
- Judy Blume's Home Base
- The official website for this popular children's author. Contain information about her books, biographical material, writing tips, and more. (Learn more)
- Format: website/general
- Provided by: Judy Blume
