Ms. Summey's Classical and Cultural Reading Project
My students need 80 books to improve literacy, including Brave New World, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and The Autobiography of Malcolm X.
$819 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.
My class is part of a small community in a large high school in Newark, NJ. We begin each day with homeroom Advisory, where students meet and "check-in" with each other and myself.
My students are high school juniors and students who are part of a small school community called Big Picture Learning, a program within a larger comprehensive high school.
In our school, students' experience is built around our belief in the three 'R's - Relationships, Relevance, and Rigor. These beliefs allow us to create small learning communities for our students, where we strive to get to know our students as unique individuals.
Much of our learning environment also centers on preparing our students for lives after high school, and we spend a significant amount of instruction on project based learning and real-world learning, even giving students the opportunity to participate in internships to expose them to career opportunities and to give them the opportunity to network for the future. Our core mission, through all of our instruction and practice, is to drive students to become self-directed learners.
My Project
In my English classroom, students will use the resources to improve literacy in a number of ways. These texts will expose students to numerous Common Core and PARCC aligned standards, while also allowing them to read engaging literature that will make them more involved readers. These classic but exciting and complex texts will be used to expose students to historical fiction and nonfiction, allow them to do extensive research, argumentative writing, and have them discuss big ideas associated with the texts in literature circles and Socratic Seminars.
My students do not have the opportunity to be exposed to many texts, or have the chance to read classical texts outside a very small variety.
My students, like their peers in more privileged districts, deserve the opportunity to read various complex texts. Our lack of novels and nonfiction texts limits the many engaging literacy learning opportunities students can have with these texts, so their addition to my classroom will be helpful.
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