{"id":2130,"date":"2010-09-27T17:03:21","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T21:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/?p=2130"},"modified":"2013-08-02T22:51:50","modified_gmt":"2013-08-03T02:51:50","slug":"weekly-photo-writing-prompt-a-reflection-on-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/27\/weekly-photo-writing-prompt-a-reflection-on-censorship\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo Writing Prompt: A Reflection on Censorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>September 25&#150;October 2 is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/ala\/issuesadvocacy\/banned\/bannedbooksweek\/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Banned Books Week<\/a> (BBW), so I&#146;ve chosen a photo related to censorship and book banning. This post is the first of what, I hope, will become a regular feature, assuming feedback is positive. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/lukas\/365488855\/\" title=\"Memorial to Nazi book-burning by Lukas, on Flickr\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/133\/365488855_04e52582e9_m.jpg?resize=240%2C180\" alt=\"Memorial to Nazi book-burning\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" hspace=\"15\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a> <strong>Reflection.<\/strong> What do you see in the glass? This image (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/lukas\/365488855\/\" title=\"Memorial to Nazi book-burning by Lukas, on Flickr\" target=\"_blank\">click to see enlarged version<\/a>) shows the reflection of visitors to a Memorial built in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bebelplatz\" target=\"_blank\">Bebelplatz<\/a>, the square where <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nazi_book_burning\" target=\"_blank\">Nazi followers  burned about 20,000 books<\/a> found to be &#8220;Un-German&#8221; on May 10, 1933. <\/p>\n<p>The memorial itself is a sheet of glass inserted into the cobblestone plaza. Visitors can look through the glass to see a lighted, underground room lined with enough empty bookshelves to hold approximately 20,000 books.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine yourself as one of the visitors to the memorial. Write a diary entry, blog entry, or short personal essay from the perspective of that visitor. Your goal is to capture what one of the people reflected on the glass is thinking. <\/p>\n<p>Try freewriting on  one of these questions to get started:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What emotions did the empty bookcases  stir for you when you looked through the glass? Why?<\/li>\n<li>Who else is reflected in the glass? Describe how someone else reacted to  the memorial and how their response compared to yours.<\/li>\n<li> Why did you come to the memorial? Did it meet your expectations? <\/li>\n<li>How does the underground placement of the memorial affect its impact? <\/li>\n<li>Describe the conversation you had with someone else reflected in the glass. What did you say to each other?<\/li>\n<li>If you could create a memorial that peered through a window to another moment, what moment would you choose and how would you represent it? <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/lukas\/365488855\/\" title=\"Memorial to Nazi book-burning by Lukas, on Flickr\" target=\"_blank\">Memorial to Nazi book-burning by Lukas, on Flickr, Creative Commons licensed<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 25&#150;October 2 is Banned Books Week (BBW), so I&#146;ve chosen a photo related to censorship and book banning. This post is the first of what, I hope, will become a regular feature, assuming feedback is positive. Reflection. What do you see in the glass? This image (click to see enlarged version) shows the reflection [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[366,146,60,147],"class_list":["post-2130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classroom-activity","tag-banned-books","tag-book-burning","tag-censorship","tag-character-diary"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqzI8-ym","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2130"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17190,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130\/revisions\/17190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}