Today (December 31, 2010) is the last day of 2010. There are now 3 hours and 40 minutes left in this year. Often people make New Years resolutions such as wanting to do better in school or excersize more. My New Years resolutions are to keep my room clean and to be more organised in school and at home. It's strange to think that this time tomorrow will be 2011!

Crazy Christmas lights!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0s3sQt-mmA&feature=related

holiday song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeJgDpixjqc

Dear Jonah and Ronan,

today in journalism we decided that we would be doing holiday hobits. Robin and Desiree will be participating. please bring in a present for the pool. it should be something that you got and never really liked. everyone will be getting a number for the order that you pick a present from the pool. i emailed you but im not sure if it got to you. thank you! i hope this reaches you.

-sammy

banned books

click here

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here

http://www.highlands.edu/academics/library/banned/books.htm
http://www.abffe.com/

Banned Books

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/29/the-11-most-surprising-ba_n_515381.html#s76417

http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_books_banned_by_governments

This is a good place for banned books.

Banned and Challenged Books:
100 most challenged books
another 100 most challenged books
another 100 most challenged books
These are some links to the 100 most challenged books, I don't know how reliable they are.
Sophia

banned books

http://hunch.com/banned-books/?SEMref=google&kw=banned%20books&gclid=CMiRu_X44aUCFUmo4AodnQqQ2A

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/banned-books.html

Banned Books

http://www.banned-books.com

This website is really good for finding banned books!!

lucy sophia and sammy

here is a good blog about Bonnie's banned reviews. it is really cool

Where's Waldo

After researching why the book Where's Waldo was banned, i found it was because on one page, showing a beach, you can see several women with no shirts on.

A Light in the Attic

I had no idea why a light in the attic was banned. this is the reason. it seems kind of stupid, especially the supernatural part. I dont understand why good book like these were banned because some people think that they portrayed something inappropriate.

Attempts have been made to ban the book from some libraries, parents claiming that the poem "How Not To Have To Dry The Dishes" encourages messiness and disobedience.^[1] The poem "Little Abigail and the Beautiful Pony" led to more criticism for describing the death of a girl after her parents refuse to buy her a pony. This led the book to be banned by the Fruitland Park Elementary School in Lake County, Florida.^[2] The decision, however, was later reversed by an advisory committee of parents and teachers.^[3] Other complaints included the mention of supernatural themes, including demons, devils, and ghosts.^[3]

-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Light_in_the_Attic

Reason's why books were banned

the reason "where's waldo?" was banned is because some person saw a woman's breast in one of the picture's also adding to what ronan said about "where the wild things are" it was banned for really no reason in paticular people just they just kinda didn't like it some the reasons people listed was the way max threw a tantrume and that his mom sent him to bed without dinner and people considered that to be cruel also just the way that he went to the island and was really wild with all the creatures.

where the wild things are

i think the reason my book was banned was because max revolts against his mother

Pinkerton, Behave!

I also did the book Pinkerton, Behave! Which I couldn't find anything that said that it was banned but it did say it was challenged for being a little to graphic because a burglar comes into Pinkertons house and puts a gun to a little girls head.

When I researched the reasons that Babar was banned I found that most people said it was becaues of racism. I also found that I tended to agree more with the people commenting on the website then the authors (such as the person who said the Little House on the Prairie was "absolutely based on the author’s personal happenings" wich is the point of the story). I think that the people who challenge these books are either over protective parents or have some personal reason for wanting books banned.

We found out that the thing that all of the books we read had in common were that they all have been banned from libraries (not necessairly from all libraries). I read The Story of Babar which doesn't seem like it should be banned. I think that the reason it was banned might be because it inplies that after living in the city Babar is better that the other elephants and because two elephants died (Babar's mom and the king of elephants).

The Family Book

It was banned because it showed young children many ways of being different. one of them was showing little children about family's maybe having either, 2 Mommy's, Or 2 Daddy's.

where the wild things are

where the wild things are is about a boy whose room turns into a forest with creatures that have amp just like him

To Kill a Mockingbird

I know we are talking about picture books that have been banned but one novel that I really love is To Kill a Mockingbird which was banned from being read by high school students because of racism which I think is a little ridiculous because I know a lot of people that are like 12 that have read it and it's my favorite book in the world!!

The Giving Tree

Another book, another one that I loved, was The Giving Tree, by Shell Silverstein. It was banned for the same reason the Lorax was.

The Lorax

The book that I was assigned to read was the Lorax, by Dr. Suess. This was a book that was banned for a ridiculous reason. I had no idea why, and i thought about it for a while. I researched why it was banned and it was banned in many parts of the US, but mostly in California because it was about "criminalizing the forestry industry." Which I think is absurd. But hey, all it takes is one persons opinion.

Ok so I was wrong about why my book was banned. It turns out its partly because it supposedly gave kids nightmares and the other reason is because it at one point portrays police as pigs.

So today we found out how all those books are related and it turns out it because all of them were banned from at least one library. I did two books my first one was Sylvester and the Magic Pebble I think that it was banned because the story may be to scary and sad for young kids.

Why The Rabbit's Wedding was banned.

The Rabbit's Wedding was banned because it was felt that it encouraged and had a theme of innterracial marrige. It was published in 1958. It created controversy. It was removed from the alabama public library system.

Why I think that The Rabbit's Wedding was banned.

I think that The Rabbit's Wedding was banned because it was about a white rabbit and a black rabbit getting married. The book was written before the Civil Rights Movements so a black and white couple could not get married in some states. I do not think that it should have been banned.

The Rabbits Wedding

This book is about two rabbits that play together in the meadows every day. One of them is black and one of them is white. The black rabbit stops their games and looks sad and the white rabbit says what's the matter? and the black rabbit says that he is just thinking. And then the black rabbit says that he wishes that the white rabbit was all his. And they deside that they would be each others forever and always. And they get married. And the last line of the story is "And the little black rabbit never looked sad again." It is written and illustrated by Garth Williams. I think that it was a sweet, charming and lovely story book.

The amazing bone

the amazing bone is about a piglet who one day after school instead of going home decides to go hangout in the woods and while she's in the woods she a bone starts talking to her and she picks up and so starts and adventure of her the bone making there way home on her journy she encounters robber's and a sleazy fox

RONAN BARRY

yo every one this is ronan,


His height is 5"3" he was eleven when we did this interview but now he's twelve he is 95 pounds. for hobbies, sports or his freetime in general he likes sleeping. the weirdest thing he's done is shoot right next to a squirls tail to scare it up a tree. he's lived in wood stock since he was born. he doesn't know which person he admires most or why. he thinks love is more important than money. he doesn't know what he'll be doing when he's thirty years old. he hopes to get a good job. he doesn't know which animal he would want to be. and that is ronan for you.

In The Night Kitchen

This short picture book by Maurice Sendak depicting a small child, Mickey who is mistaken for milk, in a world of his dreams where everything is monstrous, and baked into a cake. In the end of the book, in which Mickey is completely naked, he get the milk out of the jug and pours into the batter. He ends up in bed because it is all just a dream.

Today in Journalism we had a bunch of books that all had something in common and we don't know what it is. This book is one of them.

In journalism we are working with Robin. So today she read us a bunch of different books that all relate somehow but they didn't tell us how. Then she put a bunch of other books in a pile and then we had to choose one and read it. My book is Sylvester and the Magic Pebble which is about a young donkey who find a magic pebble and then accidentally turns himself into a rock and has to figure out how to turn back into a donkey.

In journalism we are going to be working with Robin to combine our journalism class with the library. Today we started by reading books with a common theme and trying to figure out what the theme was (so far no one figured out what the theme was). We read some books as a class and then each read our own book. The book I was reading was The Story of Babar (about an elaphant named Babar, who after his mother dies goes to the city where he meets an old lady and goes to school then goes back to the jungle to rule over the other elephants after the lod king dies). Tomorrow I belive we are going to discuess this more and talk about the theme that all the books have in common.