Banned Book ProjectLearning to Research!

Project Overview

•There are huge lists of banned book.•Your task is to find one and pick a stance.•You’ll pick a book, research it and present

it•Tasks today:

▫Look over the lists and pick three that intrigue you

▫Find out more about these three and pick one

▫Begin research

Day 1 Tasks• Look over the lists and pick three that intrigue you

Current List (07-08) Top 100 Banned Books

• Pick three titles that interest you and find out more about these three Use the Library’s Database Use Shelfari (Amazon Site)

• From your three, pick one! (You may work with a partner on this!)

• Begin research: 3 articles (at least 1 on the topic of Censorship and at least 1 on your particular book, the third is your choice!)

Research Locations/Data Sheets

1. Find out more about your book2. Books: Cart – mark pages for Xerox3. Research Sites: GHS Library Homepage

▫ SIRS▫ Opposing Viewpoints▫ CQ Researcher

4. Benefits of Research Sites▫ Gives Citation▫ Can download/print▫ Credible source (reliable)▫ Advanced Searches

Day 2 Tasks•Find 3 articles!

▫One about Censorship*▫One about your book?▫Another about Censorship or Banned Books

•Print them – ONLY PRINT THE THREE!•Read them & Highlight/Underline

important things that back your viewpoint!•After you have read the articles paraphrase,

summarize or direct quote information onto your data sheet!

Data Sheet Notes• Direct Quote: identical to the original; they

must match the source document word for word

• Paraphrase: involves putting a passage from source material into your own words. It is usually shorter than the original passage condensing it slightly.

• Summarize: involves putting the main idea(s) into your own words, including only the main point(s). It is shorter and takes a broad overview of the source material.

"Purdue OWL: Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing." Welcome to the Purdue University

Online Writing Lab (OWL). Web. 11 Jan. 2012.

<http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/563/03/>.

Schools should be for education. At present, they are only creativly so. They have attempted to serve an all-encompassing social function, trying to be all things to all people. In the process they have failed miserably at what they were originally formed to accomplish.• Example Direct Quote: Schools have been forced

into the role of serving as “an all-encompassing social function, trying to be all things to all people.” (Sipher 2)

• Example Paraphrase: Roger Sipher concludes his essay by insisting that schools have failed to fulfill their primary duty of education because they try to fill multiple social functions (2).

• Example Summary: Sipher believes schools need to refocus on just being educators.

"Purdue OWL: Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing." Welcome to the Purdue University

Online Writing Lab (OWL). Web. 11 Jan. 2012.

<http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/563/03/>.