UMW Project Contract
Maelyn Beitzel and Cody Youngblood
Draft: 3/7/2019
Mission Statement
- Overall Goal:
- To explore the censoring of The Diary of Anne Frank (unabridged) in Culpeper County Public Schools in 2010 by establishing a historical context surrounding the censoring and discussing how this case ties in with similar censorships of the Diary across the United States.
- Basic structure of site/its features
- Simple and easy to read – a menu bar with tabs for the subjects covered, and links so each piece of information can be easily found.
- Menu tabs:
- Historical context
- Anne Frank’s story
- places it has been censored/banned
- history of general censorship.
- Historical background to explain Anne Frank’s story and its importance. Historical context for why is was banned in Culpeper County.
- The Case
- Overview
- key players
- passages in question
- Conclusion to case
- Culpeper County
- Demographics
- COPLAC
- explaining the website and this project
- About the authors
Tools you plan to use
- Theme and plugins
- Theme: “Landscape”
- Plugin: Ultimate slider (Using images of Anne Frank and her diary)
- Other tools
- StoryMapJS: to tell the history of Anne Frank’s life (seven slides)
- Demographic map of Culpeper County
- YouTube videos – history of the Diary itself, during and after Anne Frank’s life
- Interactive tour of the Secret Annex from Anne Frank House website (link)
- Infographic created to show the key players in the censorship case
Milestones (when critical pieces are ready to present)
- March 3: The historical context tab and StoryMapJS of Frank’s life completed
- March 5: Interviewees will be established
- March 10: The final write-up of the historical context tab will be complete
- March 11: Homepage will be complete
- March 13: Infographic for the case tab will be complete and demographics will be obtained for the County
- March 14: COPLAC tab complete
- March 17: The Culpeper County tab will be complete
- March 22: All images will be obtained
- March 23: Copyright permissions reviewed for accuracy
- March 23: Interviews will be complete
- April 9: The initial site will be complete
- April 16: Edits will be reviewed
- April 29: The final site will be complete
Division of labor
- Cody
- Design homepage
- Emailing and contacting the parties involved in the case, interviewees, etc.
- Complete StoryMap JS for Frank’s life
- Website design of Historical Context, The Case, and Culpeper County tabs
- Provide photos for website
- Implement website plugin
- Conduct the physical interviews
- Research history of the Holocaust and Anne Frank’s life
- Maelyn
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- Collect data for and complete demographic infographs
- Website design of COPLAC and About the Authors tabs, and Historical Context sublink of why the Diary was banned in the County
- Complete copyright research for photos
- Create page for the case’s key players
- Prepare interview questions and record interview; transcribe interview
- Research the passages in question in the Diary
- Research the varying versions of the Diary and what changed with new editions