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Read A Banned Book This Week

Jejak Panda Hallo Jumpa Lagi Kita Di Website Ini judi bandarq --> I was pretty disappointed Tuesday that not one of my students knew it was Banned Book Week.   Not one in any class.   Not one intern.   Not my graduate assistant, even.   Nobody!   But we did have good discussions of book banning and censorship in class, even though I had to carve a little time out of the assigned readings for the day. I was happy to hear, however, that none of my students was aware of there ever having been any book challenges at their schools.   This does not mean, of course, that there were none.   There very well could have been challenges that the students were unaware of.   But when I read the lists to the students of the ten most frequently challenged books last year or the top 100 most frequently banned and challenged classics, my students were shocked by how mainstream and canonical they were.   Several reported having read most of the ...