My students need 5 copies each of 10 engaging adolescent literature titles to update the literature circles they are involved in.
$480 goal
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Celebrating 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.
Think of those books--those first books you read as a teenager that reshaped your world. Now, imagine you never encountered them. The library you visited was closed or underfunded. The classrooms you sat in each day had little variety from literature textbooks.
My students are 9th graders in an urban high school.
Many are struggling readers; some have never read a book on their own. Our school is under extreme budget cuts--enough so that teachers buy most classroom supplies out of pocket. This means my students rarely get good books. They get secondhand copies and castoffs from other places, instead. In the time that I have instituted Literature Circles with an expanded classroom library I have seen self-sufficient readers begin to emerge--students who think and question texts, students who challenge and probe for deeper meaning. These are students who will someday be the local economic and social force in my city, and I want them to be able to think.
My Project
The resources I am requesting will expand my current classroom library. It's amazing how fast kids will read when given the time and opportunity, and of course the great books. I am ever-finding myself short of books, or in the position where groups of student readers move down my bookshelves and say, "Nope, read that. Read that. Read that."
It's a pretty nice problem to have, I think.
My Lit Circles blend with my traditional English class curriculum and act as an enrichment of content, themes, and skill work.
This project is important because without the types of reads it takes to engage struggling readers, they quickly lose interest and heart.
With some support and proper scaffolded materials reading takes on meaning for them, IN AND OUT OF THE CLASSROOM. This is not merely a classroom project, but a lifetime project, to build lifelong learners, thinkers, writers, and readers.
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