About This Lesson
Great for Banned Books Week!
“What is ‘appropriate’ for high school students? What is the value reading texts that contain violence or inappropriate language? Why do schools, teachers and parents censor? To what extent should they censor information?” These are some of the questions that I posed to students at the end of our last unit from EngageNY that asked them to compare an informational text (Rilke’s “Letter One“) and a fictional text (excerpts from Black Swan Green by David Mitchell).