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Ms. T. from NY is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

The Old Man and the Level Three's

My students need 33 copies of Ernest Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea", a teacher guide, audio copies, and a CD player for the audio copies.

  • $1,021 goal

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This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.

Our Brooklyn 7th grade special education classroom is ready to move to high Level 3s and 4s with a little help from Ernest Hemingway!

My classroom library lacks literature of any real substance. I've heard people say that today's students don't care about the classics. I disagree! I know that my students will see the beauty in The Old Man and the Sea, just as generations of readers have before them. The Old Man and the Sea is a perfect starting point for us because of Hemingway's short, beautiful sentences. I currently have no classroom literature set, and this is one that we could enjoy and share with other classes as well.

Struggling readers do best when they are equipped with interesting, easy to read text, guided practice, and the opportunity to share their learning. By providing us with a class set of The Old Man and the Sea, and audio copies, you will ensure that my students have the opportunity to challenge themselves with classic literature, guided classroom practice, and the opportunity to share their experience with Hemingway's Pulitzer Prize winning work in our classroom community.

Your help will ensure that my students have exposure to an American masterpiece, while improving their ability to read and comprehend literary text. Enough of the low expectations; help me to expect the very best from my students. It may not seem like much, but the opportunity to develop serious literary discussion around one text as as a class could just mean the difference between a Level 2, and a high Level 3 or 4 this year. My students have set their own expectations high this year; please, help us get there!

Ms. T.
Grades 6-8

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Old Man and the Sea -- Teacher Guide • AKJ Books $10.46 1 $10.46
Old Man and the Sea CD Class Set • Recorded Books, LLC $150.55 1 $150.55
The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway, C. F. Tunnicliffe (Illustrator), Raymond Sheppard (Illustrator), Charles Scribner (Introduction) • Barnes and Noble $16.00 33 $528.00
CD102 Personal CD Player • SchoolOutfitters.com $39.99 1 $39.99

Materials cost

$729.00

Vendor shipping charges

 $72.90

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$18.23

Fulfillment labor & materials

$17.00

Total project cost

$837.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$183.73

Total project goal

$1,020.73

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,020.73

36 Donors

-$984.71

Donations toward project cost

-$837.00

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$147.71

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$36.02

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 $0.00

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