![]() A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine. Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Bessie: The Life and Music of Bessie Smith. The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays. Mark Twain: Adventures in American Humor. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged). Faulkner, Do You Write, To Kill a Mockingbird. Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Organized in the mid-1950s, the Mississippi Little Theatre Association. Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde. Walking in to the theater opening night, it was safe to say most in attendance had read. A school district in Mississippi decided to remove To Kill A Mockingbird from its curriculum because the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, which deals with issues of. Brief Encounters: A Night of Short Plays by Darren V. Nestled into a quiet corner of Old Town Alexandria, the production of Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird (adapted for the stage by Christopher Sergel) at The Little Theatre of Alexandria was quietly powerful and thought provoking. Miss Gulch Returns! The Rocky Horror Show. According to school authorities, the books still can be found in the school library, though it’s no longer part of the eighth-grade curriculum.Archived Productions: 1983 to present 2020 Due to this problem, the book has been pulled out of the English Language Arts eighth grade curriculum. In conclusion, the coming-of-age novel by Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird has caused issues in schools of Mississippi, specifically in Biloxi due to the type of language used in the book. From my point of view, by eighth grade, students are mature enough to handle a book with some obscene language, and with topics such as rapping, and racism, but I’m nobody to judge someone’s decision since in the majority of the cases, their reason go further from what we know. Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-Winning American classic To Kill a Mockingbird comes to Broadway in a new adaptation by Aaron Sorkin, Directed by Bartlett Sher. Off-Broadway designs include: JERRY SPRINGER: THE OPERA, LITTLE MISS. Although they might receive a good education at home, sometimes parents do use swearing words, they are conscious that, and don’t mind if their children use them as well.Īlthough I can understand Biloxi’s school district concern, I feel they took extreme consequences. Regional: TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (Papermill Playhouse), FENCES (Oregon Shakespeare. In my opinion, if children have a good education at home, they are least likely to swear. We have to be honest, all of us have heard swearing words, but that doesn’t mean we once hear and/or read them, we add them to our vocabulary. Maybe, they banned the book in the schools believing that their students were going to start using that type of language. In the case of To Kill A Mockingbird, Biloxi complains about the type of language used by Harper Lee when writing the novel. ![]() I am conscious that sometimes the usage of a certain language or books that talk about certain topics are considered as disrespectful to certain cultures, or make people uncomfortable, but I believe that just because of the use of the “N” word, it’s not a reason to ban a book. I respectfully disagree with Biloxi’s decision of banning this book. The article explains that To Kill A Mockingbird was banned because of the use of the “N” word. ![]() In the case of The True Diary Of A Part-Time Indian, it was banned because the main character mentions that like masturbation. In my own experience, I have read a banned book, The True Diary Of A Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. ![]() I still haven’t read the novel, but I have heard and read that is a wonderful novel. It deals with racism, raping, though a very compassionate, dramatic, novel which causes a sense of commotion to every reader. To Kill A Mockingbird is a coming-of-age-novel, a classic in eighth-grade curriculums. Sumach St., is staging the classic To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, dramatized by Christopher Sergel, at 7:30 p.m. The articles talk about Biloxi school district, in Mississippi banning the book by Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird. The Little Theatre of Walla Walla, 1130 E. “Why did Biloxi pull ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ from the 8th-grade lesson plan” article written by Karen Nelson on October 12, 2017. Little Shop of Horrors (Book by Howard Ashman, Music and Lyrics by Alan. Biloxi school district considers that it’s not an appropriate language usage for a book in the eighth grade English Language Arts curriculum. To Kill a Mockingbird (Adapted by Christopher Sergel, from the novel by Harper. ![]()
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