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10 Ways to Celebrate Banned Books Week With The New York Times – NYTimes.com
Held annually during the last week of September, Banned Books Week highlights the benefits of intellectual freedom and draws attention to the harms of censorship by spotlighting actual or attempted banning of books across the United States, including books commonly taught in secondary schools.
Here are ideas for celebrating Banned Books Week –- with your students, your children and anyone who believes in having “the freedom to read.”
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Zoho Writer – Choosing the Extended Essay2007
St. Columba’s College English department’s transition year extended essay assignment is a great project.
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Gene Weingarten – Goodbye, cruel words: English. It’s dead to me.
The English language, which arose from humble Anglo-Saxon roots to become the lingua franca of 600 million people worldwide and the dominant lexicon of international discourse, is dead. It succumbed last month at the age of 1,617 after a long illness. It is survived by an ignominiously diminished form of itself.
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George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language,” 1946
Orwell’s advice to writers.
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