Monthly Archives: March 2012

Banned Books Awareness: The Daily Newspaper

The wit of cartoonists like Tom Toles, Mike Thompson, and the widely-popular Doonesbury strip by Gary Trudeau have amused and engaged readers for decades with their humorous take on the issues and subjects of the day, often poking fun at both sides of the debates. Doonesbury is well known...

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Banned Books Awareness: “The Chocolate War”

Referred to as “Watergate at the high school level” by attendees of the National Council of Teachers of English during a 1975 convention, at its core The Chocolate War (1974) is a brilliantly-crafted novel that focuses on the issues of conformity and the use of coercion to enforce cultural norms. A New...

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Banned Books Awareness: “Literacy is a Lifestyle”

March is National Reading and Grammar Month here in the United States. It is built around the birthday of Dr. Seuss, as March 2 is honored with a National Read Across America Day. Libraries and schools from coast to coast held reading parties and celebrated the written word; but...

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“Hey Can You Look at This?!”

The March edition of Pagan Pages is now online and this time in Across the Great Divide I discuss and present some of the things I am asked to give an opinion on as far as their legitimacy. Enjoy! Across the Great Divide- March, 2012

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