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Censoring a newspaper: Activity 1 Be the censor Click on here to download an article in Microsoft Word format. It is advisable to photocopy the article so that both pages are on an A3 page. It will help the students write on it with ease. Give the article to the students and ask them to work on it in pairs. This is not an original article but is based on stories about the battle of the Somme that were printed years after the event, World War One war poetry and newspapers at the time. Mr. Darren Northcott wrote it. Ask the students to censor the article using the criteria as a guide. They can change the article in any way they want. Once they have finished censoring, read a few of them aloud. Discuss how difficult it was to change the language and how different the censored articles are from the original. It is likely that the articles will be censored differently from each other. If this is the case discuss how some of the people who are censoring are more lenient with the truth than others are even though they are following the same criteria. Click on images below to look at examples of censored articles that were completed in a workshop at The British Library by Hampstead Secondary School.
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