Every year, the National English Honor Society, the ELA Honor Society (for students in grades 6-9), and Sigma Tau Delta (the university English honor society) compete together in the Banned Books Week social media contest.
This contest asks student and faculty members of all three societies to create thoughtful and well-designed social media posts highlighting a favorite book that has been banned and giving at least one reason why it has been contested.
This year’s Grand Prize was won by Ana Cristina Barrera Plauchud from the NEHS Chapter at PrepaTec Metepec in Mexico, who submitted a beautiful photo explaining why her favorite text, All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson had been challenged for containing LGBTQIA+ content. Barrera Plauchud went on to say that the book should be made widely available because “it is a book that helps to heal traumas that you didn’t even know you had, whether or not you are part of the LGBTQIA+ community.”
NEHS was proud to have another competition entry among the winners. NEHS Chapter Advisor, Tonatzin Rodriguez, from West Covina High School, CA, submitted a very creative photo highlighting that Anthony Burgess‘ A Clockwork Orange has been banned because it “paints a dystopian view of a world desensitized to violence.”
Check out Ana Cristina and Tonatzin’s winning submissions, and other competition submissions on the NEHS Facebook and Instagram accounts.
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