1. Banned Books: Past and present

2. WHAT IS A BANNED BOOK?
A banned book is a book or other printed works (such as an essay or play) which is prohibited by law or to which free access is not permitted by other means.
The practice of banning books is a form of censorship.
Motives for banning books include:
political
legal
religious
moral
commercial

3. What is a challenged book?
A challenged book is a book that a person or group has attempted to remove or restrict access to.  
Challenges do not simply involve a person expressing a point of view; rather, they are an attempt to remove material from the curriculum or library, thereby restricting the access of others. 
Due to the commitment of librarians, teachers, parents, students and other concerned citizens, most challenges are unsuccessful and most materials are retained in the school curriculum or library collection. 
A banning is the removal of those materials.

4. WHERE ARE BOOKS CHALLENGED?

5. BRAINSTORM ACTIVITY whAT REASONS HAVE INDIVIDUALS/GROUPS USED TO CHALLENGE/BAN BOOKS?

7. The Things they carried
The reader is introduced to Lieutenant Jimmy Cross, the leader of a platoon of soldiers in Vietnam. He carries physical reminders of Martha, the object of his unrequited love. A death in the squad causes Cross to reconsider his priorities, and, heartbroken, he burns all reminders of his life outside the war in order to stave off dangerous distractions.
Tim O’Brien

8. THE ABSOLUTELY TRUE DIARY OF A PART-TIME INDIAN
The book follows one school year in the life of Junior, a fourteen-year-old boy living with his family on the Spokane Indian Reservation near Wellpinit, Washington; it is told in episodic diary style, moving from the start of the school year through the major holidays and through to the beginning of summer, and it includes both Junior's written record of his life and drawings he makes, some of them comically commenting on his situations, and other more seriously depicting important people in his life.
Sherman Alexie

9. thE BLUEST EYE
The story is about a year in the life of a young black girl named Pecola who develops an inferiority complex due to her eye color and skin appearance. It is set in Lorain, Ohio against the backdrop of America's Midwest during the years following the Great Depression. The point of view switches between the perspective of Claudia MacTeer, as a child and as an adult, and a third-person omniscient viewpoint.
Toni Morrison

10. WINNIE tHE POOH A.A. Milne
Christopher Robin and his boy animals, led by Winnie the Pooh, have one adventure after another —everything from filching honey from the angry bees to welcoming Tigger (a very bouncy animal), and consoling Eeyore (the gloomy donkey). Everything is related in extremely childish (but by no means "cutesy" terms), including bursts of poetry, rudimentary logic, and a great deal of remarkably in-depth character study. Each animal has a district personality: impulsive Tigger, neurotic Eeyore, no-nonsense Kanga, self-important Rabbit and Owl, humble Piglet, and, of course, direct and simple Pooh. The animals might be any group of typical siblings or playmates and teach, through their adventures, many real life lessons.
A.A. Milne

12. group assignment In your group, select a banned book to share about.
Write the title of your book on the board.
If the title is already on the board, your group should choose a different book.
Use your mobile devices to find five things:
Title, author, and whether it is for children, youth, or adult
50-word summary
Book cover image
YouTube video clip on book (Clip should be no longer than 3 minutes)
Locate the video on the instructor’s computer.
Reasons it was challenged/banned
Be prepared to share your five things with the class.

13. WHERE TO FIND RESOURCES
SUGGESTIONS
The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee The Color Purple, by Alice Walker Ulysses, by James Joyce The Lord of the Flies, by William Golding 1984, by George Orwell Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck Catch-22, by Joseph Heller Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley Animal Farm, by George Orwell The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner
Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell Native Son, by Richard Wright One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway The Call of the Wild, by Jack London Go Tell it on the Mountain, by James Baldwin All the King's Men, by Robert Penn Warren The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess The Awakening, by Kate Chopin In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote
A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway
WHERE TO FIND RESOURCES
TEACH 21-WORKSHOPS-BANNED BOOKS