Book Club

I neglected to mention it to you earlier, but some other students wanted to start a Book Club. We met after school today and decided to read (or re-read) Twilight by Stephenie Meyer and compare it to the film, which comes out in theaters on November 21.

We will be meeting in my room on Wednesday, December 3 at 2:00 p.m. Please come if you are interested in joining the book club, or just discussing this book.

Book Report #1

To download the Book Report Handout if you lost it or want another copy, download it at http://www.keepandshare.com/doc/view.php?u=834536.

Use the following website to make source cards, note cards, and a works cited page: http://www.noodletools.com. GHS has a free trial to use NoodleTools until 10/20 (maybe longer if we decide to purchase it). You will need the following information to use all of the features of the site--Username: "trial4134" Password: "jave9jusa"

Banned Books Links

Following are many links to resources for banned books; some merely list books that have been challenged or banned while others provide background information and research about particular books. Some of them have tons of information as long as you click through the website.

List as of 10/5, 12:20 P.M.

• One good place to start is at the American Library Association (ALA), the organization that sponsors Banned Books Week (there are many links to look through on this page and probably thousands of books). http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/oif/archive/bannedbooksweek73008archive.cfm




• American Civil Liberties Union of Texas: http://www.aclutx.org/projects/bannedbooks.php


• Authors A-Z that have been Censored, Challenged, or Banned: http://www.banned-books.com/bbauth.html


• 785 Dirty Words: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/small/exhibits/censored/words.html#


• Pabbis: Parents Against Bad Books in Schools: http://www.pabbis.com/badbook.html


• Censored: http://www.georgesuttle.com/censorship/censors-all.shtml


• Banned Books: How Schools Resetrict the Reading of Young People: http://www.worldandi.com/newhome/public/2003/September/mt2pub.asp


• The Online Books Page presents Banned Books Online: http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/banned-books.html


• Forbidden Library: http://title.forbiddenlibrary.com/


• Controversial and Banned Books: http://www.banned-books.com/


• Wikipedia/List of Banned Books (very incomplete): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_banned_books


• Banned Books Challenge: http://bannedbookschallenge.blogspot.com/


• Censor Art.com: http://www.censorart.com/banned_books/Banned_Books.html


• Online Computer Library Center: http://www.oclc.org/research/top1000/banned.htm


• Delete Censorship: http://deletecensorship.org/books.html


• Censorship in British Columbia: A History: http://www.bclibrary.ca/bcla/ifc/censorshipbc/1990.html


• Elect to Read a Banned Book: http://sshl.ucsd.edu/banned/index.html


• File Room: http://www.thefileroom.org/documents/dyn/displayMedium.cfm/medium/14


• Free People Read Freely: 11th Annoual Report of Banned and Challenged Books in Texas Public Schools 2007-2007: http://www.aclutx.org/files/Banned%20Books%20Report%202007.pdf


• Most Controversial Books Ever Banned by Libraries: http://education-portal.com/articles/Most_Controversial_Books_Ever_Banned_by_Libraries.html


• Radix: Notes of Book Banning: http://www.radix.net/~bobg/books/banned.1.html


• Bonfire of the Liberties: http://www.humanities-interactive.org/literature/bonfire/


• Censored Books in the USA: http://home.nvg.org/~aga/bulletin43.html


• Loyola University Library Resources: http://libraries.luc.edu/about/banned/index.htm


• Questia: Banned Books: http://www.questia.com/library/communication/banned-books.jsp
  
• Kenneth Spenser Research Library: http://spencer.lib.ku.edu/exhibits/bannedbooks/bannedbooks.html


• Beacon of Freedom of Expression: http://www.beaconforfreedom.org/


• Manuscripts Don't Burn: http://freethebooks.blogspot.com/


• Freadom [sic] Campaign (Cuba): http://www.4freadom.org/index.html


• Books Challenged or Banned in 2007-2008: http://www.ila.org/pub/banned.htm