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Helping Students Navigate Life!

We need the inspiring books Quiet and Daring Greatly, and various classroom library titles such as Things Fall Apart, Beloved, The Girl on the Train, Water for Elephants, and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.

  • $2,618 goal

This project expired on July 8, 2016.

This project expired on July 8, 2016.

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Ms. Y.
Grades 9-12

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.

About My Students

My students are full of heart and hope. Most are ethnically diverse, inner-city students who travel long and far to get a quality education. My student, Nancy, and I want to inspire a passion to reach their dreams and goals through examining how to overcome challenges and cultivate self-acceptance.

We want to do the best we can and inspire students with content that both makes them want to read and also empowers them with tools of how to heal their own traumas so they can thrive. For an independent book project, Nancy read the non-fiction book "Quiet" and felt as though it changed how she saw the world and herself. We thought it would be powerful if all our students had the chance to read this book, along with "Daring Greatly". We thought it would be a great idea too if students kept a journal and sketchbook where they would track their progress and identity shifts through the unit. We want them to see how what they read is connected to their lives and how through learning about the world around them they can build resources that will help them deal with the struggles and traumas they face in their own lives.

We are requesting copies of "Daring Greatly", "Quiet", and other classroom library titles to help students build tools and resources to deal with the traumas they face in life and value their own experiences and unique personalities. We plan to teach them in a unit on Identity where students will learn about ways that people heal wounds so they can thrive. As we read the books, students will learn strategies of healing so that this becomes their frame of reference. We want them to see success as the norm, not the exception, so that they can truly envision themselves as worthy and capable of reaching their dreams and goals. We want them to see themselves as survivors of the challenges they harbor, not victims, and to have confidence in their tools to be able to thrive. We want students to be able to leverage their own unique characteristics to thrive in and out of the classroom. As we build literacy skills for college and career, students will also explore and honor their own identities.

In Their Own Words

By having access to these two amazing books and sketch journals, my peers and I would be able to reach our goal of expanding our knowledge. We would be able to learn from these books the different ways we view the world. The books "Daring Greatly", and "Quiet" are both books that help individuals identify with themselves. As a student who is a big reader, I would love the opportunity to read any book and have access to sketch journals so my peers and I can learn to become better people.

By having the opportunity to use these classroom materials, I would be very grateful, and I would take advantage of it. I believe that books are vital in growing. I have learned so much in the past from books. "Daring Greatly" and "Quiet" would allow me to learn even more. As a student who has read "Quiet", I can say that I would love that my classmates read it too. It helped me see a bigger picture in the world. This opportunity would be a great way for us to learn more.

Many times, the books students are made to read are very outdated. This project will solve this problem by giving students the opportunity to read more modern books in our classroom. The books "Daring Greatly" and "Quiet" are known for their value and their way of making one reflect on life. As a student, I believe one can learn a lot from books like this. It is a way to see the world in a different way and consider our life experiences.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

More than three‑quarters of students from low‑income households

120 students impacted
Ms. Y. Grades 9-12

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

More than three‑quarters 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

120 students impacted

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead • Amazon Business $9.76 80 $780.80
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking • Amazon Business $9.07 80 $725.60
Shoes of a Servant • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End • Amazon Business $15.60 1 $15.60
All the Light We Cannot See • Amazon Business $15.29 1 $15.29
When Breath Becomes Air • Amazon Business $14.88 1 $14.88
Between the World and Me • Amazon Business $14.40 1 $14.40
Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems • Amazon Business $14.40 1 $14.40
The Girl on the Train • Amazon Business $14.01 1 $14.01
God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine • Amazon Business $13.85 1 $13.85
The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition • Amazon Business $12.09 1 $12.09
This Should Be Written in the Present Tense • Amazon Business $11.94 1 $11.94
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Modern Classics) • Amazon Business $11.76 1 $11.76
The End of the Story: A Novel • Amazon Business $11.51 1 $11.51
The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness • Amazon Business $10.76 1 $10.76
New and Selected Poems, Volume One • Amazon Business $10.46 1 $10.46
The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty • Amazon Business $10.28 1 $10.28
A Little Life • Amazon Business $10.11 1 $10.11
The Tortilla Curtain • Amazon Business $10.00 1 $10.00
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption • Amazon Business $9.87 1 $9.87
This Is How You Lose Her • Amazon Business $9.52 1 $9.52
The Secret Life of Bees • Amazon Business $9.52 1 $9.52
Beloved • Amazon Business $9.52 1 $9.52
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel (Vintage International) • Amazon Business $9.52 1 $9.52
Me Before You • Amazon Business $9.52 1 $9.52
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) • Amazon Business $9.52 1 $9.52
The Help • Amazon Business $9.52 1 $9.52
A Man Called Ove: A Novel • Amazon Business $9.52 1 $9.52
Americanah • Amazon Business $9.49 1 $9.49
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith • Amazon Business $9.41 1 $9.41
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao • Amazon Business $9.07 1 $9.07
Thinking, Fast and Slow • Amazon Business $9.07 1 $9.07
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America • Amazon Business $9.04 1 $9.04
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales • Amazon Business $9.03 1 $9.03
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster • Amazon Business $9.01 1 $9.01
Hallucinations • Amazon Business $9.01 1 $9.01
Into the Wild • Amazon Business $9.00 1 $9.00
The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel • Amazon Business $8.92 1 $8.92
The Art of Racing in the Rain: A Novel • Amazon Business $8.92 1 $8.92
God Help the Child (Vintage International) • Amazon Business $8.90 1 $8.90
Water for Elephants: A Novel • Amazon Business $8.89 1 $8.89
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time • Amazon Business $8.89 1 $8.89
The Life We Bury • Amazon Business $8.75 1 $8.75
The Road • Amazon Business $8.69 1 $8.69
Heart of Darkness • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Things Fall Apart • Amazon Business $6.76 1 $6.76
The Giver (Giver Quartet) • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Looking for Alaska • Amazon Business $5.65 1 $5.65

Materials cost

$1,980.24

Vendor shipping charges

 $3.99

Sales tax

 $181.19

3rd party payment processing fee

$29.70

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$2,225.12

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$392.67

Total project goal

$2,617.79

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