... matter how troubling or apparently insignificant" (Karolides et al.). Both of these literary works help inspire students in their educational careers, they do nothing to possibly negatively impact them! Books need to question accepted beliefs and they need to challenge people! If people cannot see how a challenging book helps to form a student into a more intelligent being, then they, ... these themes include "offensive language, sexually explicit scenes, homosexuality, violence, religious viewpoint, and drugs" (Crum). While some of these themes truly cry, "obscene!", not all books that...

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... simply involve a person expressing their view; rather, they are an attempt to remove material from a curriculum or a library (ALA 2). Who decides what books are banned? The American Library Association (ALA) collects information from sources, newspapers and reports submitted by individuals, who use the Challenge Database Form. All ... challenges are entered into a database. Reports of challenges from newspapers across the country are compiled which then are published in the "Banned Books Week Resource Guide". Challenges reported to the ALA by individuals are kept confidential. The ALA wi...

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... My teacher took the class to our school library and taught us how it worked. Each book had it's own genre and its own creator in which the books were organized by. Thanks to Mrs.Bean, my teacher, introducing Junie to me, I picked up on the whole series. After finishing the rest of Junie ... we were assigned in class, or just listen to someone on YouTube read the book. Eventually, I just kind of winged it and would Google search summaries of the books I was supposed to be reading. I went even further into slacking to the point I would not even try to go to class prepared for a ... glass...

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... left her. She eventually can't take the pressure raising four kids on her own and abandons them. * There are many other characters as the book goes along. These are brief summaries of the minor characters. * Aunt Cilla - lives in Bridgeport, CT, where the family was going to visit with t heir mother. Edie & Louis - runaway couple the children met in a park. They ... is where Dicey finds her love for sailing. Will - a circus man, befriends the children. He protects them from harm as well. SETTING: (time) - Late 1970's (place) - Connecticut & Maryland SUMMARY: The books starts out during ...

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... for both correct and incorrect responses. Students should be able to set their own pace to work, repeat material, to venture through lessons, and to try additional problems. Finally performance summaries are a plus to have for both the student and the teacher. Software also needs to relate the Life of the learner and include examples that are relevant to the learner ... ...

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... Atwood, says that "literature as we know it, is in serious danger of becoming extinct" (13). Reading is being suppressed by various methods. Books are being banned from school libraries because they "describe various levels of sexual activity" (Milam). Taken out of libraries shelves because they contained "seven- ... hundred uses of profanity, and depict alcohol consumption" (Stepzinski). Not to mention the books like Harry Potter, that are being burned by Christians because they believe that it is "nothing but witchcraft . . . evil is hidden behind the face ... away from the hands of yo...

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... themselves when their freedom to choose has been eliminated (Avi). Mary Leonhardt, a high-school English teacher for over 30 years, claims that violent books do not create violent children. She has difficulty every year encouraging students to read while on their summer vacation. With a choice of what to ... difficult to maintain, yet democracy itself consists of many points of view (Avi). Americans have the right to observe diversity in all aspects; including books. A democratic society should proudly exhibit those many points of view. The decisions made of what to read are of a private ...

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... myself a pretty slow reader. I cannot read without speaking the words. I have had some really good teachers in my school career. I have read many books and novels for class, or at least started to read them. In seventh grade we read A Christmas Carol and I felt this really helped me comprehend old ... I attended Oakton Community College. I still didn't like to read much there. But I made an attempt to focus on improving my reading habits. I read several books for class and earned fair grades. I excelled in the History classes I took. I think being able to choose the classes I wanted to t...

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... claimed to be objectionable- (263). Censorship is a way of denying people of the ideas of another. In high schools all over the country certain books have been banned due to the inappropriate nature of their content. "According to the American Library Association, more than 5,000 complaints were recorded at schools ... "normal realm- of their own life and society. Some members of the community feel that it is their responsibility to shield their children from "offensive- books that are available in schools. "A parent asks that a book be banned because he does not want his child to be expo...

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... to read frequently. Whenever I was assigned a reading assignment, it depended if I found the material interesting enough to read on whether I would do well on it or not. I started to read books series that interested me. I got into novels too. My favorite book so far is a novel by Alice Sebold called The Lovely Bones. My friends and I would pass around ... . My fourth grade teacher, Ms. Marie Tenorio, would read our class books by Roald Daul. She got me interested in his books. A couple of my favorites are The BFG and The Witches. I would purchase books from bookstores on Guam and online...

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... 7,000 emergency room visits and numerous complaints of muscle spasms, neck and shoulder pain. Currently, students are required to lug around up to seven books; and, in addition numerous heavy binders everyday. Not only are these items carried to and from school everyday, students must haul them along in- ... . It's no wonder the average student carries a backpack weighing almost one-fourth of his body weight. Just by giving each classroom a set of books, it could lower the number of students who must be treated each year for back problems due to overweight backpacks. Every year, many stu...

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... writing from an early age I don't think I would be at the expertise level I am as of now. In "The Lonely, Good Company of Books," by Richard Rodriguez he tells about what reading has done, or hasn't accomplished for him in his past. Beginning toward the start of the essay the ... point when Rodriguez was a child he didn't generally like reading, since he was not especially great at it, but rather he soon came to understand that books could open a wide range of entryway for him, as in he could simply inundate himself in a book and disregard everything else. (Rodriguez 191) He ... (Rodrig...

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... your special cookie sundaes. Being literate means being able to live in this world successfully. I grew up in California, where as a child I loved my dolls and books. My mom was very involved in my education, and although we didn't have much money, she did everything she could to make sure I got the education I deserved ... reenacting Lewis and Clark at recess with my friends. I was going to the library with my mom after school to pick out five books (that was my limit). I was having my books signed by my favorite author, Wendelin Van Draanen where I was her biggest fan and read all of he...

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... would make him very famous later in his life. He developed a strange and unrealistic style of drawing which came about by doodling on his school books. After attending high school at Central High School in Springfield, he decided to further his education at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. While ... is that pride can be a person's greatest downfall, just as it was for Yertle. The line of Dr. Seuss books are all very important lessons. The reactions to the books that Geisel wrote, under the name of Dr. Seuss are still evident today considering that. Even after his death in .....

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... inspiring class to me was my senior year English Four class. The most inspiring thing about it was the assignments that I did, the teacher and the books I read. The Assignments that were given to me in my English class in high school were things such as poems, and character analysis. I did much ... of character analysis for books such as Beowulf and The Great Gatsby. This taught me a great deal of how to write good character analysis because my teacher would go over ... and this inspired me to do well in her class. She also assigned many books for us to read that dealt with life situat...

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... inspiring class to me was my senior year English Four class. The most inspiring thing about it was the assignments that I did, the teacher and the books I read. The Assignments that were given to me in my English class in high school were things such as poems, and character analysis. I did much ... of character analysis for books such as Beowulf and The Great Gatsby. This taught me a great deal of how to write good character analysis because my teacher would go over ... and this inspired me to do well in her class. She also assigned many books for us to read that dealt with life situat...

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... cartoon, playing with friends, watching our little brother or sister, or doing many other things. During my childhood, I liked to read. I was an avid reader of children's books. Fiction or nonfiction, I read them all. I read at school, at home, even in the car. I also liked to go to the library a lot. There was ... you and in turn can make a person think and do things they might not normally do. Playing sports at recess is what most kids did. Nobody read books at recess. So you can imagine what would happen if you read a book instead of joining the others in a game of handball or a game...

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... actually read a book, but rather that we start reading the behavior and characteristics of our parents and surroundings. As we get little older, we start reading books to learn our ABCs but we never understand that reading is a crucial part of our life. The school programs don't emphasize that much on reading, so ... think reading was that important until the past few years. I never took reading that serious, since I was able to grasp meanings of things from reading books, newspapers, magazines, conversations, or just watching TV when it was necessary. When I was young, I was in this pro...

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... part of The Outsiders for a school project and her teacher was so impressed that she pushed Hinton to write more, which led to her final copy of The Outsiders. Her books received many rewards and honors. That Was Then, This Is Now was chosen as a notable book by the American Library Association. The Outsiders was chosen by the New York Herald ... is what makes it so good. Because The Outsiders is mainly written for teenagers, the fire-engine pace it what connects the book to them. Most teenage kids don't like books that drag on and have long periods of times where there is no action. Th...

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... his writing style and his works, because they all had a theme of hope in them (Williams). Steinbeck published 27 books (Harmon). His early books were, The Pearl, Tortilla Flat, and Sea of Cortez. All of these books were about early experiences in his life, like him working as a manual laborer, and living in a rural farming ... community in California. These books are the one's that got him really noticed as a writer. People realized, after reading his writings, how talented of a writer he was and ... of life and they should not be taken for granted (Hinds 50). Steinbeck is known most fa...

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... year I managed to read the entire "Ramona " book series. In class we read many books that were higher than our fourth grade level books; she knew that we had the potential to read challenging books, and we did. One of the books was called "The Giver "; it was a long book with very small print, but I managed to understand it, and passed the AR test ... ...

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... a great meaning to me. His ideas of nature being better than knowledge are very similar to that of my own beliefs in that studying from books may lead to failure, Nature has much to offer anyone , and that Nature's rules have a more important meaning than that of Science and ... his friend to stop studying and have fun. In essence, Wordsworth tries to teach a lesson on how overblown the significance of books are. In today's society, books and education are the stress of everyone, particularly politicians. The education one receives in college can determine their whole life. While an ... ...

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... going so great. I had English, Biology, Math, History, and Social science. Each of my teachers wanted me to purchase a book for their class. These books cost from twenty to one hundred and twenty dollars. My English and History wanted students to purchase more than one book for their classes. My ... books totaled to $ 660.00. The problem was that I had to pay out of my own pockets for these books. My tuition was already about $ 8000.00, and financial aid only gave me a loan for $2000. ... 00. I could not get my books for about two weeks. I had to find a friend with these books or look on...

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... want. When I needed to learn English to pass my exams to university and my family didn't have enough money to pay for tutoring, I took books in the library and step-by-step began learning language. First I thought that it would be impossible to learn language by myself, but I did it ... key to my future. I've been provided with all the tools to succeed in college. I now control my own destiny. With all that said, books and learning tools may not be the only thing that sparks and carries on to a good education. A teacher who is willing to help each and ... family and friends can also hel...

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... In fact, the students often try to sabotage McCourt's daily lessons by continually interrupting him, asking questions, and denying that they were ever given books for their courses. For McCourt this inequality is obvious, but for the students it isn't. The students use every opportunity to distract the teacher ... that they are controlling him. He is set on teaching Economic Citizenship but is sidetracked by the students" moans and groans over opening their books. They interrupt him any way they can. They ask questions about where he is from, what life was like in Ireland, and the girls...

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