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Fahrenheit 451

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Students agree on a definition of censorship and then discuss incidents of censorship with which they are familiar. They might consider incidents in present-day America, elsewhere in the world, and in the past. Bradbury's novel serves as a case study.

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10th - 11th
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English Language Arts
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