Catcher+in+the+Rye

** Mr. Ayer's //Catcher in the Rye// WIKI PAGE ** Scroll to the bottom of this page for links, assignments, and other pertinent information...

** //Catcher in the Rye// chronological review activity from class: [|Catcher in the Rye chronological review.doc] Sample 'Catcher' project video shown in class: [|Catcher in the Rye Project.wmv] **

Forgot your copy in your locker? Left it in your friend's car? No excuses... Access the entire novel at Wattpad.com by clicking here: http://www.wattpad.com/3616

**Having trouble reading this novel?** Click on any of the following helpful links, but do NOT use them as a replacement for your own reading nourishment:
 * Spark Notes: http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/catcher/
 * Homework Online: http://www.homework-online.com/tcitr/index.asp
 * Cliffs Notes: http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/LitNote/The-Catcher-in-the-Rye.id-53.html

**ASSIGNMENT:** In the discussion tab above on this page, you have the responsibility of sharing your thoughts on the following article. Click on the link, read the article (from //The New York Times// back on June 21, 2009), and then add your thoughts. Do you agree with Schuessler? Disagree? Have something else to say related to the stream of thought shared by //The Times's// writer? Each of you must post at least one well organized, one paragraph response. I'll be looking forward to the debate (remember, keep it appropriate and open-minded). [|"Get a Life, Holden"]
 * To read "Get a Life, Holden" by Jessica Schuessler, click below:**

**CONNECTION BETWEEN ROBERT BURNS & J.D. SALINGER:** http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/675.html

Keirsey Temperament Sorter Link: [|www.keirsey.com/cgi-bin/keirsey/newkts.cgi]

Click here to read postings at shelfari.com: http://www.shelfari.com/books/10087/The-Catcher-in-the-Rye/discussions
 * What are other readers around the country and world saying about //Catcher in the Rye// right now? **

**Recent articles about //Catcher in the Rye://** New York Times (Sept. 7, 2008): http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/weekinreview/07giroux.htmlex=1378526400&en=dbc319f3cd3c3ac7&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

Reviews in Salinger's day: New York Times (1951) by James Stern: [|Aw, the World's a Crumby Place by James Stern.doc] Time Magazine (1951) [|Time_1951.pdf] New York Times (1951) by Nash Burger: [|Books of the Time by Nash K. Burger.doc] The Plainsman Review (1962): http://thewareaglereader.wordpress.com/2008/07/10/ipj-the-plainsman-reviews-catcher-in-the-rye-1962/

** The novel in historical context: The 1950s ** American Cultural History: 1950-1959: http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade50.html

Where is Salinger today? New York Times (1980): [|Where to Find the Sequel to The Catcher in the Rye by Laurie Johnston & Albin Krebs.doc]

** Attempts to ban it; these articles give us a glimpse of how Salinger's novel has been received over the years. ** [|The library, the child, and the censor.pdf] [|Help of fundamentalist minister sought.pdf] [|New Jersey briefs; school refuses to ban catcher.pdf] [|Use of salingers catcher in the rye in salem.pdf] http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=bbwlinks&Template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=136590
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 * The American Library Association's top 100 banned/challenged books of the past century:**

Want more Salinger? Click here to read his //Nine Stories//, including "A Perfect Day for Bananafish":

** Other articles about Salinger: ** [|J.D. Salinger Speaks About His Silence by Lacey Fosburgh.doc] [|Holden - 50 - Still Catches by Fred Bratman.doc] [|J. D. Salinger Files Impersonation Lawsuit.doc] [|The Dimwitted Legacy of Catcher in the Rye by George F. Will (Jul. 1, 2001).pdf] [|Holden at Fifty - The Catcher in the Rye and What it Spawned by Louis Menand (Oct. 1, 2001).pdf]

Odds and ends for AFTER you've read the book: [|Fisher-Price version of 'Catcher in the Rye' in comic book format]