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Poetry That Tells a Story
This project expired on December 7, 2008.
Life-long readers - that is my hope for all of the students who enter my classroom each fall. I am a seventh grade language arts teacher and every year I face the exciting task of introducing my students to the world of great books.
One of the toughest genres for my students to tackle is poetry - you should hear the moans and groans during the poetry unit. What I need is a collection of free verse novels that will grab my students with a great story while showing them that poetry isn't something to dread.
The books I've selected are all free verse novels (novels that are one long poem or a collection of poems that tell a story). These novels will be added to the classroom library for students to read throughout the school year.
My favorite part of my job is to watch a group of students talk about a favorite book they discovered among the books on my shelves. With these new free verse novels, not only will students discover some great books, they will also find out how addicting poetry can be.
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Materials
Cost
Quantity
Total
Aleutian Sparrow Karen Hesse, Evon Zerbetz (Illustrator), Kim McGillivray (Illustrator)
• Barnes and Noble
$5.39
1
$5.39
North of Everything Craig Crist-Evans
• Barnes and Noble
$13.49
1
$13.49
Realm of Possibility David Levithan
• Barnes and Noble
$8.05
1
$8.05
God Went to Beauty School Cynthia Rylant
• Barnes and Noble
$6.29
1
$6.29
Hard Hit Ann Turner
• Barnes and Noble
$15.29
1
$15.29
The Geography of Girlhood Kirsten Smith
• Barnes and Noble
$3.99
1
$3.99
CrashBoomLove: A Novel in Verse Juan Felipe Herrera
• Barnes and Noble
$13.45
1
$13.45
Things Left Unsaid: A Novel in Poems Stephanie Hemphill, Tk (Illustrator)
• Barnes and Noble
$7.19
1
$7.19
Home of the Brave Katherine Applegate
• Barnes and Noble
$15.25
1
$15.25
Shark Girl Kelly L. Bingham
• Barnes and Noble
$15.29
1
$15.29
Frenchtown Summer Robert Cormier, Dan Krovatin (Illustrator)
• Barnes and Noble
$5.39
1
$5.39
Hugging the Rock Susan Taylor Brown
• Barnes and Noble
$6.25
1
$6.25
Keesha's House Helen Frost
• Barnes and Noble
$7.20
1
$7.20
Girl Coming in for a Landing April Halprin Wayland, Elaine Clayton (Illustrator)
• Barnes and Noble
$4.95
1
$4.95
Who Killed Mr. Chippendale?: A Mystery in Poems Mel Glenn
• Barnes and Noble
$5.39
1
$5.39
Impulse Ellen Hopkins
• Barnes and Noble
$8.99
1
$8.99
Burned Ellen Hopkins
• Barnes and Noble
$8.99
1
$8.99
Crank Ellen Hopkins
• Barnes and Noble
$8.99
1
$8.99
One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies Sonya Sones
• Barnes and Noble
$7.19
1
$7.19
What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know Sonya Sones
• Barnes and Noble
$15.29
1
$15.29
Shakespeare Bats Cleanup Ron Koertge
• Barnes and Noble
$5.39
1
$5.39
Street Love Walter Dean Myers
• Barnes and Noble
$7.19
1
$7.19
Materials cost
$194.89
Vendor shipping charges
$19.49
Sales tax
$12.67
3rd party payment processing fee
$4.87
Fulfillment labor & materials
$17.00
Total project cost
$249.00
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
$54.66
Total project goal
$303.66
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