JTHS Media Center http://blogs.jefftwp.org/wordpress/hsmediacenter Your site for accessing books and information. Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:07:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 2006-2007 dcohen@jefftwp.org (JTHS Media Center) dcohen@jefftwp.org (JTHS Media Center) http://blogs.jefftwp.org/wordpress/hsmediacenter/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg JTHS Media Center http://blogs.jefftwp.org/wordpress/hsmediacenter 144 144 Your site for accessing books and information. JTHS Media Center JTHS Media Center dcohen@jefftwp.org no no Great Web Links – English http://blogs.jefftwp.org/wordpress/hsmediacenter/2012/01/24/34/ http://blogs.jefftwp.org/wordpress/hsmediacenter/2012/01/24/34/#comments Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:10:05 +0000 dcohen http://blogs.jefftwp.org/wordpress/hsmediacenter/?p=34 Authors & Illustrators on the Web

Poetry 180: A Poem A Day for American High Schools

Internet Encyclopedia of Mythology & Folklore

How To Read A Book You Don’t Want to Read

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Smithsonian Institution Libraries

Digital History

George Mason University’s History News Network

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The Onion

Great Art Parodies
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hunger games

13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson13 little blue envelopes

Uglies by Scott Westerfeld uglies

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaimangraveyard book

]]> http://blogs.jefftwp.org/wordpress/hsmediacenter/2011/11/09/book-trailers/feed/ 0 Censorship http://blogs.jefftwp.org/wordpress/hsmediacenter/2011/11/08/censorship/ http://blogs.jefftwp.org/wordpress/hsmediacenter/2011/11/08/censorship/#comments Tue, 08 Nov 2011 13:00:56 +0000 dcohen http://blogs.jefftwp.org/wordpress/hsmediacenter/?p=211 Mrs. Vandigriff’s Assignment
Fahrenheit-451-webQuest-2011

The First Amendment in the Bill of Rights:
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

“Local school boards may not remove books from school library shelves simply because they dislike the ideas contained in those books …”
— U.S. Supreme Court in Board of Education, Island Trees School District v. Pico (1982)

Freedom to Read Statement from the American Library Association
http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/oif/statementspols/ftrstatement/freedomreadstatement.cfm

Article from the Long Island Coalition Against Censorship,” Censorship in Schools and Libraries.”

http://www.the-licac.org/sc-happyland-webifier-freedom3/

Author Lois Lowry’s statement on censorship

http://www.randomhouse.com/highschool/RHI_magazine/pdf3/Lowry.pdf

Frequently challenged books of the 21st century
http://www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/banned/frequentlychallenged/21stcenturychallenged/index.cfm#2010

 

 

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Fahrenheit-451-webQuest-2011

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Wordle

You can help raise funds for the Media Center

by participating in our first online book fair.

Summer Reading Lists are available at the site:

www.bignoodlebooks.com/jeffersontownshiphs07438

 

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JTHS Class of 2015

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Click on the above link and enjoy the adventure!

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