StudentSpeak Feature on iRemix "A Mercy" project
Date Posted : October 22nd, 2010
StudentSpeak Webisode 15 from Spotlight
10.20.10 | In this webisode, StudentSpeak goes behind the scenes to watch how students at YOUmedia, the Chicago Public Library’s digital space for teens, are using Toni Morrison’s book “A Mercy” to create new media projects around themes of slavery and empowerment.
“It’s been cool to see how a vast array of work has come from this one book,” says 15-year-old Dominique, who recorded her own original poetry based on “A Mercy” in YOUmedia’s recording studio.
Many of YouMedia’s students found personal resonance in the book, which explores racism and slavery in early America. Their work includes everything from digitally designed alternative book covers to audio narratives and spoken word performances in which students reimagine dialogue between characters in the novel.