UPDATED: Celebrate Banned Book Week by Reading!

Are you a Literary Rebel? In honor of Banned Book Week, check out some of the most celebrated and controversial books here: 

http://www.buzzfeed.com/powellsbooks/33-must-read-books-to-celebrate-banned-books-week-ohuo

How many have you read?

Check out a great series of infographics, courtesy of the Huffington Post:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/22/banned-books-week-infographic_n_5852234.html

And…Stunning visuals with quotes from banned books: 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/21/quotes-banned-books_n_5759808.html

AND a Timeline of the last 30 years of banned book milestones: 

http://www.tiki-toki.com/timeline/entry/51787/Banned-Books-Week-Celebrating-30-Years-of-Liberating-Literature/#vars!date=1994-07-08_17:46:32!

Here's some additional links courtesy of Ms. Gill, VHS's librarian:

Banned Books Week 2014

American Library Association “Banned Books Week 2014: September 21-27

http://www.ala.org/bbooks/

Links:  About Banned and Challenged Books  http://www.ala.org/bbooks/about

            Banned Books Week  http://www.ala.org/bbooks/bannedbooksweek

            Challenges to Library Materials  http://www.ala.org/bbooks/challengedmaterials

            Frequently Challenged Books                                                             http://www.ala.org/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks                                            

            100 most frequently challenged books           http://www.ala.org/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/top100                                             ***30 years of Liberating Literature timeline 

                        30 Years of Liberating Literature timeline

50-State Salute to Banned Books Week:

http/:www.ala.org: advocacy:banned:bannedbooksweek:celebrating-banned-books-week:50statesalutevideos

Tucson school district releases list of banned ethnic studies books, includes Shakespeare:

http://www.democracynow.org/2012/1/17/headlines/

Man behind Mexican-American Studies Ban Won’t Head Arizona Schools:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/27/john-huppenthal-loses_n_5721762.html

NYTimes:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/18/books/18newb.html%3F_r=0

Georgia mom seeks ban on Harry Potter:

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/15127464/ns/today-books/t/georgia-mom-seeks-ban-harry-potter/%23.UI1a8oYQOhk.

Another Donors Choose Grant to Support our Scholars!

Dear Parents and Students,

The STEMM team is posting Donors Choose projects to get computers into our Biomedical and Engineering electives. Our scholars can't wait for technology, they need laptops now! This grant is for another 8 laptops for our Human Body Systems course and our Engineering 3 elective. We just had "Part 1" filled in record time, now for "Part 2"!

If you can support us before September 24th and enter the matching code: INSPIRE, your dollars will be matched up to $100. Thanks for helping spread the word about supporting our new magnet!

http://www.donorschoose.org/project/understanding-the-human-body-requires-co/1348262/?timestamp=1411159314608&pma=true&pmaId=245243&pmaHash=ATrny4w9MPOwmWZ338Lxgw%253D%253D&utm_source=dc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=feedback_donationmessage_teacher&rf=page-siteshare-2014-09-project-teacher_245243#11342453

The Hero's Journey and What is an Anti-Hero?

Watch this great animation to learn about the 12 stages of the Hero's Journey, as articulated by Joseph Campbell:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hhk4N9A0oCA

We will be considering how the hero's journey applies to both our independent reading books, our class novels, and our own novel writing.

And now watch this, about the difference between heroes and anti-heroes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEjgDeSnBMs

Help Build Our Classroom Library With Donors Choose!

UPDATE: Our project has been fully funded in just FIVE days thanks to generous parents and community members. Books coming soon!

If you were hoping to contribute you can always send a gift card to http://www.donorschoose.org/ms.witham. 

Here's to building life-long readers!

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Want to help contribute to our rich classroom library? Between now and September 7th if you donate to our Donors Choose classroom library grant your donation will be matched, up to $100. Use matching code "Inspire" to get your dollars doubled.

http://www.donorschoose.org/project/page-turners-to-keep-students-reading/1315535/?rf=page-siteshare-2014-09-project-teacher_245243

Here are just some of the books we can look forward to: