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Sophia and I are making really great progress in trying to get our website completed. We finished our contract this past week which is a great help in making sure that everything gets completed. We each have something due every week so that the work is evenly divided.

As of right now, we have a lot of research complete. I have done historical research in order to give a broader context for the time period when To Kill A Mockingbird was written and when the complaint was filed. We both have done research on the Accomack case and the policy changes that occurred afterwards. We have some information on the initial complaint but we are still waiting for the request form from the school.

We haven’t had much luck in getting responses from people involved in the case. We have reached out to five people with only one response. Three of the interview inquiries were sent on Facebook because we could not find any other contact information. We contacted the students who started a petition against the ban, a speaker at the protest, and the man who started the protest. The leader of the protest has responded and we have to discuss how we will get an interview. We sent e-mails to the two librarians at the school with no response as of this point.

We have picked a theme for our website and have created every page that we’re going to use.  We haven’t completed any of the pages yet but we are getting there. We have our color scheme picked out. It’s burgundy to match the cover of the novel.

Hopefully, in the coming weeks we will get a response from the school allowing us to access the initial complaint form. It would also be nice to get more responses from the people we reached out to, even if they don’t want to be interviewed. In this next week, our Harper Lee page should be up as Sophia is doing the research while I am going to edit it and format it onto the page.