Story Map JS will be used to show different cases of The Bluest Eye being banned across the country.Ĭara will be responsible for researching and writing the About the Author and About the Book pages and creating the timeline on that page.Ĭara will be conducting the majority of the interviews (except Gene Hyde and Eric Grant) and Rosanna will be doing the transcriptions. The case timeline will be made per the specifications on the class web page. Toni Morrison Timeline: minimal 7-10 events purpose is to highlight key points in Morrisons life and act as a visual aid to the author mini bio. One of these programs will be used to provide a visual timeline on the Toni Morrison page and for a case timeline. It will be used to organize the site and establish division of labor, but will not be on the website. Coggle will be used for organization as opposed to illustration. The Coggle is color coded so that Cara is blue, Rosanna is green and joint activities are yellow. Coggle:Ĭoggle is a mind map program that will be used to show the different pages/ portions of the website for which each partner is responsible It also shows the layout of the website and two menus.
Because only Cara can add and update the progress on tasks, Rosanna will be responsible for reviewing and telling Cara if tasks are not included or up to date and Cara will be responsible for editing the tasks to be done on the website. Trello will be used to organize tasks that need to be done in a way that is accessible to both partners. It also allows for multiple menus which we will use to create multiple ways to navigate through the site. This theme was chosen because its font and style appear similar to a textbook and we believe it will be well suited to the educational nature of our site. We will be using the word press theme Parabola to create our website. We want this website to be a valuable resource for educators and students who want to know more about the book challenge and learn more about policies surrounding book challenges in Buncombe County Schools. We hope to connect the banning of The Bluest Eye to other challenges of books with sexually explicit content in the region and in the country. We hope to present both sides as fairly as possible to provide readers with a complete picture of the case. We aim for this site to be educational in nature. However, this is still a case where a parent attempted censorship. We will also be sure to emphasize that this case did not result in a book ban. We will provide proper citations as well as places where readers can find more information on the topics discussed on our site. We aim to create a website that is easily navigable and has approachable and understandable language targeted towards students and learners of high school age and older. In addition, we will also be adding interviews we have with librarians and a Toni Morrison scholar from UNC Asheville to provide an outside perspective. Our goal is to create content that is fair and considers all sides and points of view to the best of our ability by conducting and transcribing as many interviews from as many people who were involved in the case as possible. We will present demographic and historical information about Buncombe County that will help explain the outside factors that could have also potentially led up to the start of this challenge. Because of his Christian beliefs, Cooley thought that the book was inappropriate for classroom instruction. We will be focusing on the Fall 2017 case in Buncombe County, North Carolina, where Tim Cooley, the parent of a student from North Buncombe High School, challenged The Bluest Eye. The goal of this project is to create a website that chronicles and discusses the censorship of The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison since it was published.