Journalism -- Jrs & Srs
Click a book title to read a parent-written review of the book with regard to profanity, sex, violence and/or other adult content. Click a column heading to sort the list. All of the books on this list have been used by Blue Valley Communication Arts (English) teachers.
Each teacher typically chooses around 6 novels to teach in any given year which are supposed to pass through a textbook selection policy filter BEFORE they are assigned as compulsory reading. But many teachers assign "pet" novels that have NOT been properly filtered, or which were retroactively added to the "approved" list in June of 2004.
The district's "approved booklist" was made available online in June 2004. Although a book may appear on this official "approved" list, it may NOT be age appropriate and may contain graphic content. For example, please click below on our review for Be True to Your School.
Time-tested and world-renowned classics NOT used in the Blue Valley curriculum.
Click a book title link to read a parent-written review. Click a column heading to sort the list.
| P | S | O | None | A few times | Several times | Many times or explicit | NYR |
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| Profanity (f-word, other obscenities) | Sexually explicit material | Other Adult content (drugs, occult, suicide, extreme violence, or other adult issues that parents should know about before their children are immersed in them. |  |
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| All the President's Men | Woodward & Bernstein | 9/2000 | J | NYR | |||
| Be True to Your School | Greene, Bob | NOT Approved but used at West |
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| Dispatches from the Front | Lande, Nathaniel | 9/2000 | J | NYR | |||
| Reporter's Life | Cronkite, Walter | 9/2000 | J | NYR |