. Go to Google.com. Find and read two online articles about banned books: one about a book banned by someone or some organization in Texas and another about a book of a list of books being banned in another state or in multiple states outside of Texas.
I want you to thoroughly understand this controversial political issue as it is now in America.
2. Search the internet again. Identify a specific book that has been banned from a news source you find via Google or the like.
Note: I prefer your find and identify a book you have read at some point in the past, such as when you were in elementary school, junior high school or high school, or even college. However, it can be a book you have heard of but not read.
Make certain you provide the http://www.whatever.com link so I can check your work. If you fail to do so, you lose all possible points once I have opened your post to grade it. If you forget and resubmit before I grade, simply reply to yourself and submit there. I will accept a post that way all the same. I do not grade DB posts a second time. If you lose your possible points, learn from it and move on to the next step in the DB. Post before the DB’s specific deadline (if one has been noted) for your points. If you do not see a deadline, look again soon in case I decide on a deadline and update. Include:
-the title of the book,
-the author of the book,
-the year that the book was published,
-who banned it and/or where it was banned,
-why they say it needed to be banned, and
-a weblink address to the website where you found this book.
Look at my example below and complete this step in the same organizational pattern. Do not repeat my book! Find another book. Example: Book: Catcher in the Rye. Author: J.D. Salinger.
Published: 1951.
Banned by: School Boards and Parent-Teacher Organizations throughout the nation for decades for the main character Holden Caulfield’s profanity and sexuality as well as his discussions with a pimp and a prostitute, among other controversial activities. Read here: https://mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/794/the-catcher-in-the-rye
There are several additional steps in this Discussion Board that will follow this step. You must complete this first step BEFORE its deadline (if one has been posted) in order to receive your maximum possible points.
You may not to move to any subsequent steps without completing this step first (whether you receive points for it being submitted on time). Also, you may not complete the post-Step 5 Teamwork Assessment if all steps have not been submitted in chronological order whether you were awarded points or not.
Watch for Step 2 soon. It will require more work than Step 1, just FYI. Some students will be responding to your book choice, hopefully–and you will be responding to theirs. Check back if you see no posts. Eventually, there will be posts from hopefully all your classmates.
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