September 26-30, 2011
Virtual Read-Out
Take part in the Virtual Read-out!
Make a video of you reading excerts of your favorite banned book and post to a dedicated YouTube channel. Anyone can submit a video, but you must read from a banned or challenged book.
Each video must be no longer than 2 minutes and can be posted beginning in early September. Details are available at:
Challenged/Banned Classic Titles
from ALA Office of Intellectual Freedom
Why were these titles were challenged or banned? Click HERE.
The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
Ulysses, by James Joyce
Beloved, by Toni Morrison
The Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
1984, by George Orwell
Lolita, by Vladmir Nabokov
Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
Animal Farm, by George Orwell
The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway
As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner
A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway
Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston
Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison
Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison
Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell
Native Son, by Richard Wright
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey
Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway
The Call of the Wild, by Jack London
Go Tell it on the Mountain, by James Baldwin
All the King's Men, by Robert Penn Warren
The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair
Lady Chatterley's Lover, by D.H. Lawrence
A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess
The Awakening, by Kate Chopin
In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote
The Satanic Verses, by Salman Rushdie
Sophie's Choice, by William Styron
Sons and Lovers, by D.H. Lawrence
Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut
A Separate Peace, by John Knowles
Naked Lunch, by William S. Burroughs
Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh
Women in Love, by D.H. Lawrence
The Naked and the Dead, by Norman Mailer
Tropic of Cancer, by Henry Miller
An American Tragedy, by Theodore Dreiser
Rabbit, Run, by John Updike
Campus Events
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Thursday, Sep 29, 2011: Banned Book Reading
DSC faculty, staff and students will read sections from their favorite banned or challenged book.
Date: Thursday, September 29, 2011
Location: Goodroe Auditorium
Time: 6-8 pm
Banned Book Reading
Interested in reading a selection from your favorite banned or challenged book at the Banned Book Reading?
Contact Melissa Whitesell at 706.272.2503 or email: mwhitesell@daltonstate.edu
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