via GIPHY We are at the end of this project/course and I am really excited about all the work we have done. The sites look amazing and this class has made me think critically about how censorship works currently and throughout history. I returned to the text, The Reader Speaks Out: Adolescent Reflections about Controversial Young Adult […]
Reading Reflection
Week 9: Reading Reflection
The image above is from the UMW Digital Archives Centennial Image Collection and taken in 1980 of a dance class. This week I am catching up on my reading reflection posts and going to go over the article “Why don’t archives digitize everything?” from the beginning of the semester. Last fall, I took an Archives […]
Week Five: Reading Reflection
For the past couple weeks, I have been stuck on the readings talking about the voices that are not heard in literature. There are biases in novels that I love and in so much literature these days. Young adults cannot identify even as they are searching for similar experiences because they are just not there. […]
Week One: Reading Reflection
The first week of classes is over and I am ready to get to work! The theme for this class is A Burning Idea and dives into researching the censorship of books. Another UMW student, Karina Schumm, and I are already researching cases in our area and exploring what makes a book “bad.” We also […]