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Coach Lett from Lexington, SC is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Critical Literacy for Social Justice

My students need 24 book club books that focus on social justice issues.

  • $301 goal

This project expired on August 3, 2010.

This project expired on August 3, 2010.

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Coach Lett Carolina Springs Middle School
Lexington, SC Grades 9-12

My Students

"Through critical literacy, teachers and students join together to use literacy as a tool for asking questions about knowledge, justice, and equity in their school, family, and community. While this curriculum involves critical thinking, it also demands taking action for social justice." Ed. NCTE

The majority of my students are Caucasian, with about 10% African American and 5% Hispanic.

Their socioeconomic status varies -- about 50% are on free and reduced lunch and some are upper middle class. The school is beautiful and large, but the population is growing faster than the building can hold. We currently have six portables. My students have varied interests and abilities. I teach heterogeneous classes, where in one class I have a student reading on a third grade level and one on a college level and many in between. This is a rural community that is at a turning point, slowly changing into a suburban community. They still enjoy many rural activities like agriculture, mud riding, hunting, fishing, and many of the boys enjoy auto mechanics.

My Project

Our school is currently struggling to diminish the drop out rate. Many students don't see the relevance of the education they are receiving because it doesn't connect to their lives or what they think they will do in the future. For example, why do I have to read Romeo and Juliet to be a mechanic? To improve student engagement I present them with young adult novels that they can connect to and try to get them hooked on reading. Once I can get them hooked, I can stretch them to think about how books/literature can help us grow and examine the world around us. The book club books that I'm requesting, such as Witness, True Believer, and The Brimstone Journals, all relate to social justice issues and examine problems from multiple view points. I want to extend my students conversations past "the character said this" to "how can I relate what the character experienced to what happens in real life and what can I do to change that?" I want my students to examine why they resist education and what keeps them from being successful and then take action!

Books allow students to move beyond their world, examine possibilities, share experiences with others, and take action for their beliefs.

Books can transform a person, classroom, community, and ultimately the world we live in. I want my students to think globally-look outside their small world to others like them and others that aren't like them-to see where their passions lie and how they can become part of the world instead of sitting passively in a desk waiting to turn 18 to drop out.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

More than half of students from low‑income households

30 students impacted
Coach Lett Carolina Springs Middle School Grades 9-12

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Lexington, SC View local requests

More than half 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

30 students impacted

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
True Believer (Make Lemonade Trilogy #2) Virginia Euwer Wolff, Russell Gordon, Russell Gordon (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $8.99 4 $35.96
CrashBoomLove: A Novel in Verse Juan Felipe Herrera • Barnes and Noble $14.35 4 $57.40
Witness Karen Hesse • Barnes and Noble $6.29 4 $25.16
Street Love Walter Dean Myers • Barnes and Noble $8.09 8 $64.72
The Brimstone Journals Ron Koertge, Timothy Basil Ering (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $6.29 4 $25.16

Materials cost

$208.40

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $14.69

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.13

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$261.22

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$39.03

Total project goal

$300.25

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