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Ms. Thompson from Salt Lake City, UT is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Ms. Thompson's classroom raised $376

Books for Sixth Grade Literature Circles

My students need 8 copies of six book titles for Sixth Grade Literature Circles.

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Ms. Thompson Washington Elementary School
Salt Lake City, UT Grades 6-8

My twenty-seven sixth graders love to read and each day they spend time both at school and at home getting lost in their independent reading books. They are a very diverse group with many first generation immigrant students and also a few who live in the local homeless shelter.

Although my students are becoming passionate readers, they are also becoming typical adolescents with a hunger for peer-to-peer interactions. In order to combine their love of reading with their strong desires to interact with their peers, I would like to run Literature Circles, a classroom version of adult book clubs. The problem? We don't have the books we need to run these student centered groups.

We need small group sets of high-interest books that include fantasy, realistic fiction, and sports novels. These books will give my students rich reading material for their Literature Circles. By reading and discussing these books they will answer important, big questions like: How can I be a good friend? What does it mean to be brave? And, what kind of person do I want to become as I grow-up?

Your support will make it possible for my students to amplify their love of reading by sharing their responses to great books with one another. This project will go far in helping me work towards one of my year-long goals of creating a class of habitual, responsive, critical readers.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

More than half of students from low‑income households

27 students impacted 5 donors
Ms. Thompson Washington Elementary School Grades 6-8

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Salt Lake City, UT View local requests

More than half of 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

27 students impacted 5donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key Jack Gantos • Barnes and Noble $5.39 8 $43.12
All of the Above Shelley Pearsall, Javaka Steptoe (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $5.39 8 $43.12
Forests of Silence (Deltora Quest Series #1) Emily Rodda • Barnes and Noble $2.69 8 $21.52
Travel Team Mike Lupica • Barnes and Noble $7.19 8 $57.52
Gilda Joyce, Psychic Investigator Jennifer Allison • Barnes and Noble $6.29 8 $50.32
The Fairy Tale Detectives (Sisters Grimm Series #1) Michael Buckley, Peter Ferguson (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $5.35 8 $42.80

Materials cost

$258.40

Vendor shipping charges

 $25.84

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.46

Fulfillment labor & materials

$17.00

Total project cost

$308.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$67.61

Total project goal

$375.61

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $375.61

3 Donors

-$362.35

Donations toward project cost

-$308.00

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$54.35

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$13.26

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 $0.00

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