Banned Books Read Out (Teens, Adults, All Ages)

Wednesday, September 25 @ 7-8:30 PM

The library's teen volutneers will help us celebrate Banned Books Week 2024 by reading an excerpt of a banned book aloud in front of an audience.  The program will be moderated by Dr. Jocelyn A. Chadwick.

Jocelyn A. Chadwick is a life-long English teacher and international scholar.  She was a full-time professor at Harvard Graduate School of Education and is now lecturing occasionally and conducting seminars there. In addition to teaching and writing, Chadwick also works online and in classrooms with 4-12 students and teachers around the country, focusing on literature, writing, and curriculum development.

She has worked and continues to work with PBS, WNET, WGBH, BBC Radio and was invited to the White House as panel member for the series, Celebrating America’s Authors for Ken Burns’s Mark Twain. In addition to teaching and writing, Chadwick also consults and works with teachers, elementary, middle and high school students around the country on literature, writing, and modern and classical rhetoric. Chadwick also is an expert consultant for NBC News Learn and is now Past-President of National Council of Teachers of English.

Current projects include PBS' American Masters, PBS' The Great American Read, PBS' Learning Media, NBC's Today-Parenting, a new book series for the Folger Shakespeare Library, recurring blogs for Larry Ferlazzo in Education Week, consultant for Center for Mark Twain Studies, and Savvas (Pearson).

Chadwick has written many articles and books, including, The Jim Dilemma: Reading Race in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; Common Core: Paradigmatic Shifts; Teaching Literature in the Context of Literacy Instruction; “Mark Twain Meets Generation Z: Challenges, Questions, and New Perspectives,” “We Dare Not Teach What We Know We Must: The Importance of Difficult Conversations,”   “21st Century Challenge: Necessary Perspectives on Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as Anti-Slavery Novels,” Critical Insights: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, H. W. Wilson, The Great American Read-PBS-“Character vs Society: Examining the Multi-layers of Invisibility and Visibility in Invisible Man,” https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/character-vs-society-lesson-plan-tgar/character-vs-society-lesson-plan-tgar/  and “Our Students ARE Writing: Time for US to Adjust Our Lens Through Which We Teach Writing,” forthcoming in Education Week, and A Celebration of Toni Morrison for NBCToday: https://www.today.com/video/celebrate-the-life-and-legacy-of-author-toni-morrison-98268741945

Dr. Chadwick’s new book in progress is Writing for Life: Using Literature to Teach Writing.

Registration Required

Hybrid Program