It's a typical fall morning in my sixth-grade classroom. If you look around, you will see 11 and 12 year olds stretched out at their desks, heads buried in books. At any other time during the day, you would see them laughing, chatting, and being typical middle school students. However, right now they are in "the zone"- the reading zone. I teach 6th grade Language Arts at a Title I school. I teach two classes of 23 students each.
My students this year LOVE to read! We have spent the past 6 weeks focusing on our independent reading and raising our reading stamina. Students who told me they hated reading at the beginning of the year now beg for more independent reading time. I have spent hours making sure each student finds a book they enjoy, a genre they love, and an author they adore. Our problem now is that most of my students have either read all the books I have to offer or have fallen in love with and author or series I do not have on my shelves. They are begging for more reading material, and I don't want to let them down!
My proposal asks for 25 books for our classroom library. These are titles and genres the students have requested. For example, most of my students enjoy reading Margaret Peterson Haddix's "The Shadow Children" series, so I am requesting more of her titles. I have also requested a variety of non-fiction titles, in the hope that my students will also love these. Titles I am requesting include books about ancient Rome and Egypt, a part of our social studies curriculum. Finally, we would like to add student-friendly classics to the library. For this reason, I have requested Bloomsbury Classics newly published classics, with teen-friendly covers and introductions by popular authors my students love. All of these books will be well-loved and passed from student to student, and from year to year.
By the end of this year, many of my students will have read 30 books. Some of them will have read almost 100 books. By providing my students with frequent, voluminous reading, I aim to create habitual, skilled, and passionate readers. By donating to our class, you can help 6th graders find their niche, that special book, and that reason to want to read.
In the Serpent's Coils Tiffany Trent
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Peter and the Starcatchers Dave Barry, Ridley Pearson, Greg Call (Illustrator)
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$7.19
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$7.19
Cirque du Freak Boxed Set #1 Darren Shan
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$22.39
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$22.39
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village Laura Amy Amy Schlitz, Robert Byrd (Illustrator), Trina Schart Hyman (Illustrator)
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$15.99
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$15.99
Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant Daniel Tammet
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$12.60
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$12.60
Who Was Harry Houdini? Tui T. Sutherland, John O'Brien, Nancy Harrison (Illustrator)
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$4.49
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Houdini Box Brian Selznick, Brian Selznick (Illustrator)
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$5.39
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Travel Team Mike Lupica
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No More Dead Dogs Gordon Korman
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Island: Shipwreck, Survival, Escape Gordon Korman
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$12.15
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$12.15
Albino Animals Kelly Milner Halls
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Roman News Andrew Langley (Editor), Andrew Langley, Philip De Souza, Ronald L. McDonald, Philip De Souza (Editor)
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$6.29
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Baa!: The Most Interesting Book You'll Ever Read about Genes and Cloning Cynthia Pratt Nicolson, Rose Cowles (Illustrator)
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Iqbal Francesco D'Adamo, Ann Lenori, Ann Lenori (Translator)
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Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen, Foreword by Meg Cabot, Meg Cabot (Introduction), Caroline Plaisted
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Frankenstein Mary Wollstonecraft Wollstonecraft Shelley, Benjamin Zephaniah (Introduction), Benjamin Zephaniah, Caroline Plaisted
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Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte, Jennifer Donnelly
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Turnabout Margaret Peterson Haddix, Barry Marcus
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Running Out of Time Margaret Peterson Haddix, Dan Craig (Illustrator)
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Escape from Memory Margaret Peterson Haddix
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$6.29
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Uprising Margaret Haddix
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$13.59
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Materials cost
$181.62
Vendor shipping charges
$18.16
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3rd party payment processing fee
$4.54
Fulfillment labor & materials
$17.00
Total project cost
$221.00
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
$48.51
Total project goal
$269.51
How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal
$269.51
2 Donors
-$269.51
Donations toward project cost
-$221.00
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