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Ms. Lucas from Los Angeles, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Ms. Lucas's classroom raised $542

Different Lives, Dynamic Voices (Narratives, 1 of 2)

My students need 20 copies of "A Long Way Gone", 20 copies of "Girl, Interrupted", and 10 copies of "Angela's Ashes".

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Ms. Lucas Felicitas & Gonzalo Mendez High School
Los Angeles, CA Grades 9-12

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Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Students

The challenge: Expose students to great literature. Show them the wide variety of human experience. Give them the skills to be great writers, and empower them to tell their own stories. Build a school-wide culture of reading. And do it all in a school with no books.

This year, I will be teaching a group of smart, motivated 10th and 12th graders in the inner city.

Our school, which serves 500 students, has been open for just one year. This means that our campus is bright, clean, and unfortunately quite empty. It takes years for a school to build a comprehensive collection of novels and nonfiction texts, and at the moment, our book room contains only core textbooks and empty shelving.

My Project

I am requesting 50 copies of three wonderful, high-interest memoirs to help fill those shelves: 20 copies of "Girl, Interrupted," which details the author's time in a psychiatric hospital, 10 copies of "Angela's Ashes," a reminiscence of growing up in troubled Irish family, and 20 copies of "A Long Way Gone," which tells the harrowing story of the author's time as a child soldier in Sierra Leone. My students will preview these and other pieces of narrative writing, and choose to read the books that capture their attention the most. This unit will allow us to discover the ingredients of a dynamic story, as well as to explore the mechanics of good writing. As we read these texts, students will find their own voices as writers, and create, revise, and publish their own pieces of arresting autobiographical writing.

By donating to this project, you will give students access to high-quality, high-interest books.

You will allow students to see different experiences of the world, to see their own experiences as valid and compelling, and to come into their own as writers. These books will represent the beginnings of a well-stocked and well-loved book room, and will be enjoyed for years to come.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Nearly all students from low‑income households

150 students impacted 2 donors
Ms. Lucas Felicitas & Gonzalo Mendez High School Grades 9-12

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Los Angeles, CA 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

150 students impacted 2donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier Ishmael Beah • Barnes and Noble $8.20 20 $164.00
Girl, Interrupted Susanna Kaysen • Barnes and Noble $7.31 20 $146.20
Angela's Ashes: A Memoir Frank McCourt • Barnes and Noble $8.36 10 $83.60

Materials cost

$393.80

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $36.03

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.91

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$470.74

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$70.34

Total project goal

$541.08

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $541.08

2 Donors

-$541.08

Donations toward project cost

-$470.74

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$70.34

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