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Mr. Doyle from New York NY is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Desperately Need Books for Theater Class!

My project needs 20 copies of a script to study for the Spring semester. I also need instructional materials (Multicultural Theater, Theater Games for the Classroom, and Stories on Stage) and a text book to use.

  • $507 goal

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Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

I currently work at a very small school in Washington Heights in New York City. Our building is beyond full with its three tiny floors and 300 children. We don't have room for a gym, and are extremely limited with the extracurricular activities that we can offer our students.

Last year I began an initiative to bring theater to the school. There were absolutely no resources, and I only had one afternoon a week to work with a small group of students who could stay after school. This year I was given an actual theater class, but there are still no resources. We desperately need resource materials to make the year long course a success and ensure the students are actually benefiting from the instruction. We are working very hard to have our very first full scale production in the spring, as well as our second annual holiday show this winter. For that reason, I am requesting these books and scripts. I strongly believe in the arts, and I have visibly seen their benefit in the classroom. These students are reaching to be involved in something with their peers, and there is a great deal of interaction and responsibility that these students cannot find anywhere else.

My project needs 20 copies of Our Town so the students can practice performing, as well as a text book and reference materials since we have never had theater before. There are also a few multicultural monologue and scene books that will benefit the student population of my school. The materials will be used both in the classroom and after school where the students will have the chance to perform solo pieces, group scenes, and entire acts of various productions. These materials will help build a library for our theater department.

Please make it possible for my students to be part of something bigger. They learn so much about themselves on the stage, and the confidence it builds is unsurpassable. Thanks you so much for your consideration.

Mr. Doyle
Grades 6-8

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Our Town: A Play in Three Acts Thornton Wilder, Thomton Wilder • Barnes and Noble $9.85 20 $197.00
Stories on Stage: Children's Plays for Reader's Theater (or Readers Theatre), with 15 Play Scripts from 15 Authors, Including Roald Dahl's the Twits and Louis Sachar's Sideways Stories from Wayside School Aaron Shepard • Barnes and Noble $13.50 1 $13.50
Theater Games for the Classroom: A Teacher's Handbook Viola Spolin • Barnes and Noble $19.80 1 $19.80
Noises off: A Play in Three Acts Michael Frayn • Barnes and Noble $11.70 1 $11.70
Bedford Introduction to Drama Lee A. Jacobus • Barnes and Noble $78.07 1 $78.07
Multicultural Theatre: Scenes and Monologs from New Hispanic, Asian, and African-American Plays Roger Ellis (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $16.15 1 $16.15
The Ultimate Audition Book, Volue 4: 222 Comedy Monologues 2 Minutes and Under Irene Ziegler Aston (Editor), John Capecci (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $17.95 1 $17.95

Materials cost

$354.17

Vendor shipping charges

$35.42

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$8.85

Fulfillment labor & materials

$17.00

Total project cost

$415.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$91.10

Total project goal

$506.10

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$506.10

8 Donors

-$482.94

Donations toward project cost

-$415.00

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$67.94

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$23.16

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$0.00

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