Banned Books

In the midst of my Media Literacy unit (fake news, media bias, etc), we're also talking about author's purpose. Discussing purposes like persuade and inform leads to writing persuasive essays and middle schoolers' favorite: debate. As I was looking through The Hate U Give for debate topics (naturally, it's the novel we're reading for this unit), I realized it's a banned book, which means we can discuss and then debate censorship- which goes perfectly with media literacy!  I feel like I'm really making use of my media specialist skills this year!