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Ms. Phear from Los Angeles, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Making Meaning with Macbeth

My students need their own copies of Macbeth.

  • $428 goal

This project expired on August 10, 2014.

This project expired on August 10, 2014.

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Ms. Phear University High School Charter
Los Angeles, CA Grades 9-12

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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.

My Students

My Long Term English Learners struggle to make meaning from complex text. Teaching them to annotate their books is a strategy I use to help them comprehend and analyze text they otherwise would not be able to access.

I have a class of 10th graders who speak English as their second language.

Some have been in America their entire lives, others are recent newcomers. Learning literature in a second language can be a challenge, so we spend a lot of time on literacy development, developing vocabulary, labeling structural patterns, identifying theses, etc. We immerse ourselves in complex texts, taking the time to break them down into digestible parts, working to build those pieces back together to create meaning out of the whole. As the year progresses, my students develop the perseverance and determination to tackle these texts more and more.

My Project

Teaching reading in a public school setting means my students are assigned copies of our books that are returned when they finish reading them for next year's students. In other words, they aren't allowed to mark up the texts. Yet research shows that students who engage with texts comprehend them better. Strategies like the 5 Levels of Close Reading require students to annotate the text in order to help them make meaning. Paraphrasing. Explicating. Analyzing. How can we employ these strategies effectively with books in which we cannot write?

Having a set of books that each of my students can own would allow them to annotate the text as necessary to comprehend what they are reading.

They would have access to deeper levels of meaning and practice with strategies they can use for further reading development. Being able to annotate the text will help them develop the strategies of strong readers.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Nearly all students from low‑income households

36 students impacted
Ms. Phear University High School Charter Grades 9-12

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Los Angeles, CA View local requests

Nearly all students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

36 students impacted

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Macbeth • AKJ Books $7.26 40 $290.40
CD - Macbeth • AKJ Books $10.94 1 $10.94

Materials cost

$301.34

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $27.57

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.52

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$363.43

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$64.13

Total project goal

$427.56

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