ANIMATED CHALKBOARD PRESENTATION

- Adolf Hitler

“Only the continuous and steady application of the methods for suppressing a doctrine makes it possible for a plan to succeed.”

Nathan Iles Daniel Janson Ricky Calala

Book banning and the media

“There is nothing pretty about the Holocaust. This was a great way to depict a horrific time in history." - Julie Goodin, instructional supervisor

"This idea that we have to have this kind of material in the class in order to teach history, I don’t buy it." - Mike Cochran, board member

McMinn County Board of Education Tenessee unanimously voted to remove “Maus” from the grade 8 curriculum

January 2022

local Media Reaction

“What makes the book controversial is exactly what makes it valuable.” - Hillary Chute, The Atlantic

National Media Reaction

reaction

Further

- CBC

- The Marketing Guardian

Censorship in Canada

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Gossip Girl by Cecily von Ziegesar

Underground to Canada by Barbara Smucker

The Wars by Timothy Findley

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Mordecai Richler

The Diviners by Margaret Laurence

Foxfire by Joyce Carol Oates

Princess on the Brink by Meg Cabot

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Hold Fast by Kevin Major

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

The Best of Drawn & Quarterly edited by Chris Oliveros

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder

His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman

The Goosebumps series by R.L. Stine

Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Chicken Soup for the Unsinkable Soul by Jack Canfield & Mark Victor Hansen

Essex County by Jeff Lemire

Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro

Star Wars: A New Hope by George Lucas

The Holy Bible

​The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling

​Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

- CBC Books

29 books that were challenged in Canada

• National Library of Medicine found a 95% correlation between higher reading exposure in children and supporting semantic language processing in the brain.

• PLOS ONE found a correlation between students reading varied stories and higher degrees of compassionate/empathetic action.

Impact

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" - George Santayana

Do you agree with the decision to remove Maus from the grade 8 curriculum?Lets vote!