Banned Books Week is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. Typically held during the last week of September, it spotlights current and historical attempts to censor books in libraries and schools.

·   Library lessons:  censorship non- fiction article
·   Assembly:  Freedom to read focus
·   House competition: Decorating classroom doors based on a banned/challenged book
·   Choose a banned/challenged books for your class, whether it’s a short children’s story, a passage from a novel or an entire book you’ve been reading with the class
·   Banned book debate- Split the class into two groups. Have one side argue for the freedom of schools to read often-challenged books and the other side to argue why students reading materials should be screened and approved by teachers
 
  https://www.freedomtoread.ca/