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Mr. James from Augusta GA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Butler High School Literacy Initiative

My students need 25 copies of The Hunger Games, books that interest them and also better references for research purposes.

  • $718 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.

My Students

There is an extreme lack of reading in our community. Students would rather turn on the TV and watch the movie versus reading a book. During Independent Reading, we hope to ignite a fire and instill a love and appreciation for reading within our students.

This GA high school is roughly 90% Black, 7% White, and 3% other (Hispanic, Asian, etc).

Most of the families here are of low-socioeconomic status and benefit from Title I. There is a plague of student apathy here but there are also motivated students as well who want to learn.

My Project

Having these resources in place will improve the 4th-8th grade reading level that many of the kids are presently on. Students are already using annotation to improve comprehension. This is especially beneficial when the time comes to do research papers from the American author books I requested.

This project is especially important to me because it frustrates me to watch the students walk around in their world, ignorant of the diversities and different cultures life holds.

They are in a box-thinking mindset and willingly believe whatever Hollywood feeds them instead of opening a book and letting their imagination soar and their ideas flourish. The knowledge they will learn from reading will be far more than I can ever impart as their teacher.

Mr. James
Grades 9-12

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Restless Spirit • AKJ Books $14.59 1 $14.59
The Hunger Games • AKJ Books $16.78 25 $419.50
The Autobiography of Mark Twain • AKJ Books $11.67 1 $11.67
The Short Stories • AKJ Books $13.87 1 $13.87
Ralph Waldo Emerson • AKJ Books $5.83 1 $5.83
The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass • AKJ Books $9.45 1 $9.45
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • AKJ Books $5.07 1 $5.07
Walt Whitman • AKJ Books $12.37 1 $12.37
Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson • AKJ Books $16.05 1 $16.05
Harlem Renaissance Remembered, The CD • AKJ Books $10.94 1 $10.94
Edgar Allan Poe • AKJ Books $10.91 1 $10.91
The Kidnapped Prince: The Life of Olaudah Equiano Ann Camero • AKJ Books $4.37 1 $4.37

Materials cost

$534.62

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $36.89

3rd party payment processing fee

$8.02

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$609.53

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$107.56

Total project goal

$717.09

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $717.09

27 Donors

-$609.45

Donations toward project cost

-$520.28

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$89.17

Matching donations from our partners

-$105.00

Match offers toward project cost

-$89.25

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$15.75

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$2.64

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 $0.00

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