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Learning to Love Poetry

My students need copies of the 'Poetry for Young People' series and two anthologies of contemporary American poetry for young people. Included authors are William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and many more.

  • $366 goal

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I teach Language Arts and Social Studies to Fifth Grade students at a public elementary school in Houston, Texas. My students know very little of the poets that have taken our language and shaped it into art. As a Language Arts teacher, I want them to truly see the Art in Language. Inspired by Billy Collins' 180 Project, I have tried to read a poem to my students each day just so they can start having some exposure to poetry. They love it and usually remind me when I forget or run out of time. Now they are asking for more than just the daily poem. My students need poetry anthologies that feature the works of both classic and contemporary poets. If my students have these anthologies they will have a good selection of poetry to study, discuss, recite and memorize. Hopefully, they'll be inspired to write their own poems. I want my students to see poetry as not just an isolated unit of study but something that can be read and listened to as often as they read and listen to a good book. A favorite poem that you can recite to yourself can produce the same feeling as a favorite song heard on the radio. I want to offer this to my students.

Ms. a.
Grades 3-5

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Poetry for Young People: William Butler Yeats Jonathan Allison (Editor), Glenn Harrington (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $13.45 1 $13.45
Poetry for Young People: Maya Angelou Edwin Graves Wilson (Editor), Edwin Graves Wilson, Jerome Lagarrigue (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $11.96 2 $23.92
Poetry for Young People: American Poetry John Hollander (Editor), Sally Wern Comport (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $13.45 1 $13.45
Poetry for Young People: Edna St. Vincent Millay Francis Schoonmaker (Editor), Frances Schoonmaker (Editor), Mike Bryce (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $13.45 2 $26.90
Poetry for Young People: Alfred Lord Tennyson Alfred, Lord Tennyson, John Maynard (Editor), Allen Garns (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $13.45 1 $13.45
Invisible Ladder: An Anthology of Contemporary American Poems for Young Readers Liz Rosenberg (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $19.75 2 $39.50
Poetry for Young People: William Blake William Blake, John Maynard (Editor), Alessandra Cimatoribus (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $13.45 2 $26.90
Poetry for Young People: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Harvey Chan (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $13.45 1 $13.45
Poetry for Young People: Carl Sandburg Frances S. Bolin (Editor), Steven Arcella (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $13.45 1 $13.45
Poetry for Young People: Wallace Stevens John N. Serio (Editor), Robert Gantt Steele (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $13.45 2 $26.90
Poetry for Young People: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Frances Schoonmaker (Editor), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Frances Schoonmaker, Chad Wallace (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $13.45 1 $13.45
Poetry for Young People: Robert Browning Eileen Gillooly (Editor), Joel Spector (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $13.45 1 $13.45
Poetry for Young People: William Wordsworth William Wordsworth, James Muir (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $13.45 1 $13.45

Materials cost

$251.72

Vendor shipping charges

 $25.17

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.29

Fulfillment labor & materials

$17.00

Total project cost

$300.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$65.85

Total project goal

$365.85

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $365.85

4 Donors

-$344.12

Donations toward project cost

-$300.00

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$44.12

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$21.73

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