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Ms. Stepp from Hope Mills, NC is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Get the Poet's Perspective!

My students need this small collection of 13 modern poetry books.

  • $317 goal

This project expired on October 4, 2010.

This project expired on October 4, 2010.

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Ms. Stepp South View High School
Hope Mills, NC Grades 9-12

My Students

Our students are rabid readers, pouring through our limited selection with incredible speed. Requests are made daily for new titles, in particular poetry, and currently we rely solely on donations to provide them.

Our high school is located in North Carolina and is largely populated by the children of our military stationed here and overseas.

We are a high needs school, serving a low income population. With the North Carolina school budget being cut in every department, we no longer have enough funding for reading materials and look to you, dear donor, to aid in the education of all these bright young men and women.

My Project

Introducing students to poetry can actually enhance their performance on high-stakes tests. How? According to Nile Stanley, a reading specialist, researcher, and professor of education, “Poetry helps students do well on high stakes tests because it gives their minds an exhilarating workout. Poetry inspires students to read more, imagine more, think more, discuss more and write more.” Poetry also helps teenagers become better readers.

Books are vital to young adults, offering thoughtful interpretations of the world and humanity.

They are empowering and mind expanding, helping not only with our understanding of our daily lives but with the vocabulary and context in which we assess ourselves. Our students are eager to read and we ask you to help us provide them with a quality alternative to television, video games, and roaming the streets. Let's give them something to think about. Let's give them the gift of reading!

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Nearly all students from low‑income households

999 students impacted
Ms. Stepp South View High School Grades 9-12

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Hope Mills, NC View local requests

Nearly all 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

999 students impacted

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Poems 1959-2009 Frederick Seidel • Barnes and Noble $32.49 1 $32.49
Sounds of Poetry Robert Pinsky • Barnes and Noble $10.55 1 $10.55
The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake William Blake, David V. Erdman (Editor), William Golding (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $17.78 1 $17.78
My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer Jack Spicer, Kevin Killian, Peter Gizzi • Barnes and Noble $28.42 1 $28.42
The Complete Poems Anne Sexton, Foreword by Maxine Kumin • Barnes and Noble $15.42 1 $15.42
The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees Weldon Kees, Donald Justice (Editor), David Wojahn (Introduction) • Barnes and Noble $13.76 1 $13.76
Refusing Heaven Jack Gilbert • Barnes and Noble $12.99 1 $12.99
Sublimation Point Jason Schneiderman • Barnes and Noble $12.14 1 $12.14
At Least in the City Someone Would Hear Me Scream: Misadventures in Search of the Simple Life Wade Rouse • Barnes and Noble $16.40 1 $16.40
The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens Wallace Stevens • Barnes and Noble $14.62 1 $14.62
The Collected Poems Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $12.30 1 $12.30
Collected Poems Robert Lowell, David Gewanter (Editor), Frank Bidart (Introduction) • Barnes and Noble $20.30 1 $20.30
Complete Poems Marianne Moore • Barnes and Noble $12.99 1 $12.99

Materials cost

$220.16

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $17.17

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.30

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$275.63

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$41.19

Total project goal

$316.82

Our team works hard to negotiate the best pricing and selections available.

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