{"id":604,"date":"2021-09-16T15:21:41","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T22:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/?p=604"},"modified":"2021-09-16T15:21:41","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T22:21:41","slug":"our-first-read-aloud-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/our-first-read-aloud-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"Our First Read Aloud Novel!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alangratz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Ban-This-Book-paperback.jpg\" alt=\"Ban This Book - Alan Gratz\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This week, we began our novel study\/read aloud for Alan Gratz&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Ban This Book<\/em>. The novel follows a student named Amy Anne, who must find her voice in order to speak up against censorship. When Amy Anne&#8217;s favourite book is taken off her school library&#8217;s shelves, she takes matters into her own hands by creating a secret banned book library.<\/p>\n<p>As we read this novel, we will discuss censorship and representation in children&#8217;s literature. Did you know that the\u00a0<em>Captain Underpants<\/em> series is one of the most banned books across North America?<\/p>\n<p>If you want to learn more about the importance of reading, you can watch this persuasive Ted-Talk speech from a 9-year-old student. Do you agree or disagree with their ideas?<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"The Power and Importance of...READING! | Luke Bakic | TEDxYouth@TBSWarsaw\" width=\"863\" height=\"485\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rW2r5uStgG0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, we began our novel study\/read aloud for Alan Gratz&#8217;s\u00a0Ban This Book. The novel follows a student named Amy Anne, who must find her voice in order to speak up against censorship. When Amy Anne&#8217;s favourite book is taken off her school library&#8217;s shelves, she takes matters into her own hands by creating a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/our-first-read-aloud-novel\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Our First Read Aloud Novel!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8574,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12,11,8],"tags":[35,34,22,32,33,31],"class_list":["post-604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-club","category-language-arts","category-literacy","category-term-1","tag-book-review","tag-censorship","tag-literacy","tag-read-aloud","tag-reading","tag-representation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8574"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":605,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions\/605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}