Showing posts with label banned books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label banned books. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Leave Our Mark Twain Alone! STET!

Dear Gentle Readers,

I cannot say it better than Lauren Lise Baratz-Logsted does in this article, so I respectfully submit to you a link.

Ironically, I began reading Our Town with my ninth-grade English students today. While I knew that our books looked different, I had no idea that the volume I was reading was a white-washed PC version. In the midst of our discussion about how appalling that was, one student noticed that on my large Huckleberry Finn poster was a warning, stating that the book was on many "banned" lists. One discussion led to the other. Then I came home to this article. Shocking!