Understanding Censorship

 Last week we started looking at the idea of Censorship because of its role as a major theme in Fahrenheit 451

Today I would like you to look deeper at the kinds of censorship that exist in our world, why people censor or ban things, and what effect it has on your life.

Most media in our world undergo some form of censorship, including but not limited to:

1)Movies

2) Books

3) Music

Pick one of these genres and research answers to the following questions (remember to let me know where your data comes from):

Who is in charge of banning of censoring this medium?	Why is this medium usually censored?	What has been banned?
In this column, provide detailed information on what group or groups tend to want to censor your chosen medium.	Look at multiple examples and try to look for all the different reasons you can. Use this column to compare and contrast them	This column can be used to list examples you've found that support the ideas you put forward in columns 1 and 2

**Write your answers out in paragraph form on a sheet of paper and hand it in to me**

Starter sites: Use these site as starting points for your research, but try to find information of your own

Wikipedia on censorship: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship (AS A STARTING POINT TO GUIDE YOUR IDEAS)

Books:

 http://www.adlerbooks.com/banned.html

Music:

http://www.billboard.com/features/banned-music-20-artists-censors-tried-to-1004097713.story#/features/banned-music-20-artists-censors-tried-to-1004097713.story

Movies:

 http://listverse.com/2011/08/19/top-10-banned-movies/

**Remember that censorship is something people feel very strongly about, so there will be a lot of opinions out there. If you think material you are reading might be biased, be sure to mention that, should you decide to use it**

Censorship and you

Having watched the two Video Clips; Internet Censorship and Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales on internet censorship,  please write a reflection that addresses the following questions.

1) What does censorship mean to you?

2) Where have you seen examples of Censorship in real life?

3) How is censorship portrayed in Fahrenheit 451?

4) Is the act of censoring something necessarily good or bad? Explain.

Each of these questions should feature a detailed and thought out paragraph-answer.

Please include with your reflection an image (with a reference) from the following Google search which you feel compliments your thoughts.

Google image search on censorship.

Setting in "The Chrysalids"

Now that we've read to the end of Chapter 5 of The Chysalids, we have been made aware of where in our world the story takes place. In a word document, write up a hypothesis as to why you think the Author, John Wyndham, might have chosen this location. When you have a complete idea, post it as a comment to this post.

Back up your hypothesis by researching the author and the location in question. Remember that The author has given us clues about other locations in the story as well. Now that we know the location of Waknuk, where might the fringes and the Badlands be? What do you think has made the world the way it is?

I've phrased this post vaguely so as to not give information away to people who have yet to reach this point in the novel, but please be specific in posting your responses.

Ideas of Escape in Fahrenheit 451

Several months ago we did an activity on "escapism" where every student was to find an image on the internet that fit the definition of escapism and explain why.

Here are 5 examples of images people chose:

Example 1, Example 2, Example 3, Example 4, Example 5

The idea of escaping an unpleasant reality and the ways people choose to do that has been a major theme of Fahrenheit 451 in our reading so far.

In a word document, make note, in paragraph form, of two different examples of people attempting to escape an unpleasant reality in the book (either literally or metaphorically) and explain why these are good examples using the definition of escapism (linked above). Please refer to a specific page number when giving your examples.

When finished, copy and paste your paragraph as a comment to this post.