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My students are talented beyond measure, beautiful, and hard working young people that are hungry for knowledge. I am a first year teacher in a first year turn around school. Of the ninety-seven students I teach, less than eleven percent read on grade level. The students I serve, live in an impoverished, crime and drug filled community which threatens to swallow them up on a daily basis. My children's' zip code should not dictate their futures. They deserve quality education. I am a firm believer that my students are capable of meeting and exceeding academic success by interacting with books that push them to look critically at all types of events and characters they have never met. By providing books in which my students can connect with the characters and topics presented, my students will see the value, and flourish. By accepting that literacy increases academic success in all contents, my students will begin to show academic improvement and move closer to college readiness

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My students are talented beyond measure, beautiful, and hard working young people that are hungry for knowledge. I am a first year teacher in a first year turn around school. Of the ninety-seven students I teach, less than eleven percent read on grade level. The students I serve, live in an impoverished, crime and drug filled community which threatens to swallow them up on a daily basis. My children's' zip code should not dictate their futures. They deserve quality education. I am a firm believer that my students are capable of meeting and exceeding academic success by interacting with books that push them to look critically at all types of events and characters they have never met. By providing books in which my students can connect with the characters and topics presented, my students will see the value, and flourish. By accepting that literacy increases academic success in all contents, my students will begin to show academic improvement and move closer to college readiness

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