This week we finally got a response from Accomack County Public Schools in relation to the initial complaint filed against To Kill A Mockingbird. During our Wednesday meeting, Sophia, after multiple e-mails and calls, was able to get through to someone. Unfortunately, they couldn’t give us the document due to “confidentiality agreements.”

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We were really hoping to get a hold of the complaint because it would have been really useful in building our website. Luckily, we have audio from the first board meeting where the complainant made her argument as to why the book should be banned.

Also this week, I was able to format and put my research onto the historical context page of our site. I struggled with deciding what information was relevant and had an even harder time trying to write up the page in a way that made sense. Sophia and I are currently working on the Harper Lee page and should have that up by Monday, March 19.

Next week I will be working on the protest page. Hopefully, I won’t have as many problems with writing it as we already have a lot of information on it. The interview with Charles Knitter is supposed to go on that page but he has not responded yet. If he hasn’t gotten back to us by then we will add that to the page whenever we get his reply.  We also haven’t heard back from the girl who started the petition. She replied to Sophia asking for an interview so Sophia emailed her to make sure she is of age because in the case that she isn’t we would have to get permission from a parent to interview her. Having sent out five interview requests we had expected to not get many responses. Two of five isn’t a bad number but if we don’t get any responses then we will not have any interview to document on our website or write as the second part of the interview blog post which is due next week.

While we wait, we will continue to work on our website, building up each page until we feel as though they not only have good information, but are aesthetically pleasing. We have set our color scheme but we just have to make sure that each page has the same format as to have a cohesive website.