A History of Censorship: Banning The Catcher in the Rye (Monday’s HW)

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A History of Censorship: Banning The Catcher in the Rye (Monday’s HW) • Please research this weekend why J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye has been banned for four decades. TYPE your findings and organize notes in the following way: – Why it was banned in the 1960s: Reasons (the more specific, the better) and at least one specific example. – Why it was banned in the 1970s: Reasons and at least one specific example. – Why it was banned in the 1980s: Reasons and at least one example. – Why it was banned in the 1990s: Reasons and at least one example. Bring your typed research and your book to class on Wednesday.

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A History of Censorship:Banning The Catcher in the Rye (Monday’s

HW)• Please research this weekend why J.D.

Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye has been banned for four decades. TYPE your findings and organize notes in the following way:– Why it was banned in the 1960s: Reasons (the

more specific, the better) and at least one specific example.

– Why it was banned in the 1970s: Reasons and at least one specific example.

– Why it was banned in the 1980s: Reasons and at least one example.

– Why it was banned in the 1990s: Reasons and at least one example.

• Bring your typed research and your book to class on Wednesday.