The Mystery Of The Unicorn Hunters

Overview: In this lesson students will work on vocabulary, students will review the vocabulary words quarantine, prattled, epidemic, pestilence, purges, destitute, and exorbitant and place each word on the concept map to understand the new word. This activity will be completed as a class.

I gathered student written inventories and held personal interviews and conversations with students and their families in order to help my students grow and mature in their vocabulary usage. This information told me they value who they are and what motivates them so I could design innovative practices and utilize proven methods of vocabulary instruction that promote learning for all my students.

I have created a table to help better represent the lexicon difference which is seen

Kristol (I 972) claims that "very few words of real merit ever were suppressed" (p. 649). This is a difficult statement- to agree with because among the literary giants that have been repeatedly censored are Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird, Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl, and John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath. Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn has been frequently attacked on the basis of racial prejudice. J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, the coming-of-age novel loaded with profanity, leads all of these as far as censorship votes are concerned (Donelson, 1997). ) While these and hundreds of other books continue to show up on ban lists in libraries across the country, activists like Kristol (1972) have asserted that "in the U.S., censorship has to all intents and purposes ceased to exist" (p.645).

Words that are off limits: we, you , our, I, us, like, couldn't, wouldn't, can't, shouldn't, don't, won't, things, stuff, a lot, bad, bigger, and shows.

Words are tools that are vulnerable to being influenced by society to be used as weapons. When the intention behind using a certain word is to hurt another person, the infliction can convey a reminiscence of oppression. In Gloria Naylor’s selection, The Meanings of a Word, Andi Zeisler’s, The B-Word? You Betcha, and Michiko Kakutani’s, The Word Police, in the anthology Made With Words it is discussed how over time the perception of certain words change. Based on different events that have occurred in society, especially in the music industry, the N-word and B-word have reduced in severity; however African Americans and women still get offended by these derogatory terms.

Everyone kills, and everyone eats. Not everyone eats what they kill, but these remain two of the most intimate forms of communing with our environment, whether we recognize them as such, or not. Almost 40 000 Americans are killed each year as the result of homicidal, accidental, and suicidal uses of guns; in all, Americans wielding guns intimidate, wound, and kill hundreds of thousands every year. These were the kinds of ideas impressed upon me as I grew up in my urban home: Guns were beasts, as were knives, arrows, spears, indeed anything could become a weapon if held in a particular way. We sprayed each other with the hose instead of water guns, and spent many long hours as a family "communing with nature" through long walks on the

Nirvana’s “Heart Shaped Box” stirred controversy due to the bizarre nature of the music video. In the video, religious icons and the KKK appeared which angered Catholics. Yet, “Heart Shaped Box” is one of the most successful songs from Nirvana. Usually when artists or authors release workpieces that social identities as taboo, conversations reaching from coast to coast become debates of the decade. In this scenario, Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was the hotspot for discussing the brutality of slavery and the usage of the prohibited “n-word”. Despite that, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an American classic novel. However, the extent of using the “n-word” is becoming a problem teaching and discomfort for the education system.

Students need to read and discuss the list of newly created words provided by the teacher (selfie, app, couch potato, etc.) deciding what makes these new words so appealing to become new words. The students in Joseph’s group may then choose to use an online source such as fakewordgenerator or their own creativity to develop 3 new words and items for their group.

At Least everybody in this world can be courageous. Everybody has been courageous in some way. Courage can happen any day, any time without anyone even realizing it. People often think courage is standing up for oneself or helping someone out of home or school, and it can be, but courage can be as simple as doing something you're afraid to do and then faces your fears and doing it. Characters like Anne Frank from Diary of Anne Frank, the man from Giving and the boy from The Porcelain Unicorn.

Classics of American Literature such as Lord of the Flies, Catcher in the Rye, The Great Gatsby, and Of Mice of Men have been viewed as controversial since the day of the publishing. Many of these books are banned in some schools and numbed down to make the language less uncomfortable for the reader. However, none of these books has stood nearly as much as Mark Twain’s classic, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. This book has been banned and censored for its use of the n-word. These efforts have proved effective in many places. However, if this desire to censor literature continues, reading will cease to be experience that it was meant to be and stories will lose their original meaning.

I am writing today with great concern about the alleged plan for the Freehold Regional High School district to ban the reading of Huckleberry Finn in all it’s schools, due to the use of offensive words specifically the N word. I urge you to object to this plan and keep the novel within the FRHSD curriculum as there is no legal backbone for its removal, and the novel is extremely important to learn about the time period.

The very first theme that people can detect throughout the book is to confront the Red Bull. He stretches across the land of Hagsgate, where King Haggard rules, and symbolizes a great fear. A fear that many have to overcome like for instance, the unicorn. On page 147, she says after turning into Lady Amalthea, because of the wizard, “‘The Red Bull,’ the girl whispered. ‘Ah!’ She was trembling wildly, as though something were shaking and hammering at her skin from within. ‘He was too strong,’ she said, ‘too strong. There was no end to his strength, and no beginning. He is older than I.’” (Beagle 147). Everyone has their own fear, even those that are immortal. For instance, the unicorn’s fear is the Red Bull and his capability to control everything

Books That Were Banned For Silly Reasons (788 Words) Throughout the ages there have been books that pushed the boundaries of what is tasteful or acceptable. In many cases these books were censored or even outright banned. While it is no surprise that books with harmful or racial content fell foul of the censors, sometimes the reasons for banning are downright puzzling. Here are just six books that ended up being banned for really silly reasons.

In the Last Unicorn, once the unicorn learns that she is the last of her kind and leaves the safety of her forest to search for the others. While in isolation, the unicorn lacks the experience of emotions that carry the wisdom she needs to save the unicorns from King Haggard and the Red Bull. As a unicorn, she cannot feel love and never “can never regret” (Beagle 55), but she fears the Red Bull who tries to herd her into the sea. However, it is not only her lack of emotions that make her weak in the beginning but her failure to control her fear and challenge the Bull weakens her character. During the first confrontation of the Bull, “the moment the unicorn faced him, frozen as wave about to break. Then the light of her horn went out, and she turned and fled” (Beagle 113). Characters need a stereotype baseline to grow from, and in this case, the unicorn becomes a damsel in distress saved by Schmendrick the Magician by transforming her into a human. A character needs to experience a moment of weakness in order to grow as a character and be strong enough to challenge the powerful villains. Her fear adds another dimension to her because the readers know that she is not impervious to failure even though she is a magical creature much greater than man. This confrontation with the bull provokes the growth of the unicorn because as a mortal, she will experience the emotions necessary to be strong enough to conquer King Haggard and his Red Bull. The initial confrontation serves to