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

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Slaughterhouse-Five For AVID/Pre-AP Students

My students need 30 copies of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five and 1 copy of the audio-book.

  • $341 goal

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I will be teaching 10th grade English to the AVID cohort, a group of students who are determined to be successful in college. We are a small, urban, Title I public high school in a high-needs community in New York.

In the spring, students will be studying anti-war poetry and persuasive writing. What better text to incorporate than Slaughterhouse Five? The catch, of course, is that we don't have copies in our school's book closet.

With their own books, students can practice annotating and tracing their thinking as they read. They will be expected to annotate and "mark up the text" in both AP courses and in college. Improving these reading skills in the 10th grade will help them develop better arguments in their writing, analyze an author's style and rhetoric, and make reading a more interactive activity (which it should be!).

Help me empower my students by providing materials which will allow them to practice the skills they will need in a college-level course. Enrich our anti-war and persuasive writing unit by giving them access to this classic text.

Ms. Kalick
Grades 9-12

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Slaughterhouse-Five: Or, the Children's Crusade, A Duty-Dance with Death Kurt Vonnegut • Barnes and Noble $7.19 30 $215.70
Slaughterhouse-Five: Or, the Children's Crusade, A Duty-Dance with Death Kurt Vonnegut, Read by Ethan Hawke • Barnes and Noble $26.95 1 $26.95

Materials cost

$242.65

Vendor shipping charges

 $24.27

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.64

Fulfillment labor & materials

$9.00

Total project cost

$279.56

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$61.37

Total project goal

$340.93

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $340.93

4 Donors

-$170.47

Donations toward project cost

-$139.79

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$30.68

match offer

-$170.45

Match offer toward project cost

-$139.77

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$30.68

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$0.01

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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