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Across the country, there are teachers who are embracing banned books as a means of teaching their students about the First Amendment, especially the First Amendment rights of minors. This one-day workshop will explore some of those techniques, focusing on titles that can be used both within and beyond the English/Language Arts classroom.

Pat Scales, national intellectual freedom advocate and expert and author of Teaching Banned Books: 12 Guides for Young Readers (American Library Association, 2001), will lead this one-day, once-in-a-lifetime learning opportunity.

The workshop will feature author Laurie Halse Anderson, author of Speak (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999), a young adult novel about a teenage girl who is traumatized into silence by a rape. Ms. Anderson will discuss the novel’s content, her thoughts on tackling difficult subjects as a writer, and experiences with challenges to the book.

Enrollment in this workshop is limited.

This workshop is being offered through the UW-Madison Office of Education Outreach. For more information, including how to register, click on the "more info" link below.