It simply reduces the scope of a high schooler’s understanding of healthy and unhealthy depictions of sexuality. The book is a New York Times best seller. like I was swimming, a stubborn tadpole suspicious of the deep.' (pg. This doesn’t protect highs schoolers from sexual content. (memoir) Shout: The True Story of a Survivor Who Refused to be Silenced is a poetic memoir by Laurie Halse Anderson, published Maby Viking Books. Shout by Laurie Halse Anderson By: Aspyn Myers Rhetorical Device Example/Quote Rhetorical Device Quote: 'I won the position of the shallowest edge of the pond where I pulled through a few inches of water. T wenty-three years ago, Laurie Halse Anderson woke up.

The exact verbiage was that “No materials … shall contain visual or visually implied depictions of sexual acts” or “explicit written descriptions of sexual acts.” This is equally unfortunate, as (news flash) many high schoolers are already having sex. Laurie Halse Anderson, pictured in 1979, broke barriers with a 1999 novel about a teen’s sexual assault. Florida’s Central Bucks school board recently voted that virtually all depictions of sex should be banned. Yet sexual violence is not the only reason that books get removed.

She noted that not reading books, and not talking about sexual violence or healthy consent-based sexuality, pulls all of that and “puts it underneath a lid.” This year, 18% of high school girls have been the victims of sexual violence (including unwanted kissing or touching), along with 5% of high school boys. In her speech, Anderson cited a 2021 CDC study that reported 14% of high school girls have been forced to have sex, as well as 4% of high school boys. After all, high schoolers not are safe from sexual assault. She recently spoke at a Florida school board meeting in order to protest the decision, saying that literature is an essential tool for victims of sexual assault. The book in question is Anderson’s breakout young adult novel Speak, which deals with rape.

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