Day 1:

1. Students will begin by watching a short video -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wmvTQ6B3YE
2. They will be given a pre-assessment (Quizziz on Google Classroom link)
3. Several books will be placed on different tables in the media center.
4. Each book will be from the banned or challenged book list and will be age
appropriate for fifth grade students.
5. After students visit each table rotation and have had a chance to look through
the various books, students will be asked to choose one of the books they were
drawn to the most.
5. The media specialist will lead a discussion about what the student’s think these
books have in common.
6. After listening to the student responses, students will be told that all of the
books have either been banned or challenged.
7. Students will be asked what they think “banned or challenged” means and what
their definition of intellectual freedom is.
8. Students will go back to the classroom where a PowerPoint presentation will be
shown (https://slideplayer.com/slide/12223359/), explained, and discussed, as well
as a YouTube video on Censorship and Banned Book Week
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLprbWMd8mM).
9. Students will also be shown a list of other banned or challenged books from the
American Library Association
(http://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks).
10. At the culmination of the class discussion, students will then find a partner and
discuss each of their books in detail – why do they think that particular book is
banned, Are there any controversial parts to the book? What would make the book
not so controversial or considered as one of the banned books? Etc.