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Ms. Guldin-Noll from Baltimore MD is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Help Us Create An AP English Library!

My students need a library of 36 American Literature books to help them prepare for the AP Literature exam.

  • $577 goal

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Celebrate Black Teachers and Students

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.

There is an anonymous adage that goes, "Today a reader, tomorrow a leader." I am a second year Teach For America English teacher serving in a high-needs, urban high school. I teach SAT Prep to juniors and seniors, and English 3 and English Honors 3 to juniors. With a new AP Literature class for seniors at my school, I have a unique opportunity to help students prepare for entry into the AP Lit class when I begin teaching English 3 and English Honors 3 this spring.

Because our freshman and sophomore English curriculum is dedicated more to learning skills to pass standardized tests, students arrive in English their junior year with a small list of books they have read. Many of the books they have read are not AP-level books. With a very small English department budget, it is not possible to order books from within the school budget. In addition, the school library is very small, especially when it comes to high school level texts. The neighborhood branch library is also closed for renovations, so students are limited in their access to resources.

I am asking for a reading library of American literature books to both inspire and invest students in reading for the AP exam. Through the reading library, I hope to widen students' interest in reading as well as grow the list of AP books they have read in preparation for the exam. All of the books I have chosen either appear on the syllabi of high-achieving English honors curricula or on the list of AP books that have been used on the test in the past 20 years. Students will be required to read at least one AP book from the reading library for each marking period in addition to the books we will study in class.

Your donation will help my students discover or confirm their love of reading, enhance their reading, writing and vocabulary skills, prepare for the AP exam, and, ultimately give them a chance to earn college credit in high school. In addition, you will help students realize their dreams of going to college prepared, ready to succeed, and able to compete with anyone--regardless of where they went to high school.

Ms. Guldin-Noll
Grades 9-12

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Everything Is Illuminated Jonathan Safran Foer • Barnes and Noble $10.04 1 $10.04
Angels in America: Part One: Millenium Approaches & Part Two: Perestroika Tony Kushner • Barnes and Noble $12.76 1 $12.76
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values Robert M. Pirsig • Barnes and Noble $11.16 1 $11.16
The Women of Brewster Place Gloria Naylor • Barnes and Noble $11.20 1 $11.20
The Time Traveler's Wife Audrey Niffenegger • Barnes and Noble $11.96 1 $11.96
Little Women (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) Louisa May Alcott, Camille Cauti (Introduction) • Barnes and Noble $6.25 1 $6.25
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Mark Haddon • Barnes and Noble $11.20 1 $11.20
The Color Purple Alice Walker, Andre Bernard (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $11.96 1 $11.96
Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
Broken for You Stephanie Kallos • Barnes and Noble $11.20 1 $11.20
To Be Young, Gifted, and Black: Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words Lorraine Hansberry, James Baldwin (Introduction) • Barnes and Noble $12.55 1 $12.55
The Things They Carried Tim O'Brien • Barnes and Noble $11.96 1 $11.96
Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini • Barnes and Noble $12.00 1 $12.00
Invisible Man Ralph Ellison, Ralph Ellison (Introduction) • Barnes and Noble $11.96 1 $11.96
The House on Mango Street Sandra Cisneros • Barnes and Noble $8.80 1 $8.80
House Made of Dawn N. Scott Momaday • Barnes and Noble $11.19 1 $11.19
Sophie's Choice William Styron • Barnes and Noble $12.80 1 $12.80
The Road Cormac McCarthy • Barnes and Noble $11.96 1 $11.96
Reservation Blues Sherman Alexie • Barnes and Noble $11.20 1 $11.20
Precious (Push Movie Tie-in Edition) Sapphire • Barnes and Noble $10.40 1 $10.40
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey • Barnes and Noble $7.99 1 $7.99
The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway • Barnes and Noble $9.60 1 $9.60
Native Son Richard Wright, Arnold Rampersad (Introduction) • Barnes and Noble $11.99 1 $11.99
Mystic River Dennis Lehane • Barnes and Noble $12.55 1 $12.55
Maus: A Survivor's Tale - 2 Volume Boxed Set Art Spiegelman • Barnes and Noble $23.92 1 $23.92
The Martian Chronicles Ray Bradbury • Barnes and Noble $7.19 1 $7.19
Lucky Alice Sebold • Barnes and Noble $10.39 1 $10.39
The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison • Barnes and Noble $11.20 1 $11.20
Beloved Toni Morrison • Barnes and Noble $12.00 1 $12.00
Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man and Other Writings (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) James Weldon Johnson, Noelle Morrissette (Introduction), Noted by Delano Greenidge-Copprue • Barnes and Noble $5.35 1 $5.35
A Summer of Faulkner: Three Novels: As I Lay Dying/ The Sound and the Fury,/Light in August (Oprah's Book Club Series) William Faulkner • Barnes and Noble $21.56 1 $21.56
Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) Mark Twain, H. Daniel Peck (Introduction) • Barnes and Noble $4.45 1 $4.45
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) Mark Twain, Robert G. O'Meally (Illustrator), Robert O'Meally (Introduction), Robert G. O'Meally (Introduction) • Barnes and Noble $4.45 1 $4.45
All the Pretty Horses (Border Trilogy Series #1) Cormac McCarthy • Barnes and Noble $12.00 1 $12.00
All the King's Men Robert Penn Warren, Foreword by Joseph Blotner • Barnes and Noble $12.00 1 $12.00
A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway • Barnes and Noble $12.80 1 $12.80

Materials cost

$398.28

Vendor shipping charges

 $39.83

Sales tax

 $19.91

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.97

Fulfillment labor & materials

$9.00

Total project cost

$472.99

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$103.83

Total project goal

$576.82

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $576.82

4 Donors

-$288.39

Donations toward project cost

-$236.51

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$51.88

match offer

-$288.43

Match offer toward project cost

-$236.51

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$51.92

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