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Mr. Fox from Portland OR is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Classics Students Want To Read

My students need Literature Circle sets of 3 popular classic titles: "The Member of the Wedding" by McCullers, "Into Thin Air" by Krakauer, and "Watership Down" by Adams, plus a dictionary for fun!

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My classroom is a picture of true America. My students bring diversity of all sorts (gender, race, socio-economic status, language) to create a challenging but strong community. I teach 7th Grade Core which means I get to spend half of my day with the same 30 students (a gift, trust me) teaching them writing, literature, social studies, and basically how to be better human beings. We are a high poverty & high pride school.

Our district doesn't have a lot of money (or if we do I'm not sure where it is going). Our library has a few new titles, but most of the books on the shelves are "old," "boring," and falling apart. I have a small classroom library but nothing that can fully support what we are attempting to do as a class: fall in love with reading.

I am trying to build a Lit Circle friendly library. This would be a library that has at least 3-5 sets of titles that students can read in small groups and then discuss and write about. Lit Circles are AMAZING. Students really feel empowered when they get to choose their own books and they really look forward to talking about what they've read with their small group. This program suffers decreased effectiveness when they've read everything I have. The titles on this list are ones specifically requested and recommended by my students. They are titles of "classic literature" that either they've heard about or some have read and want to share with others.

You will make it possible for my students to continue to develop their love of reading. This increases their literacy, self-confidence, and eventual ability to be critical thinkers and productive, active, participants in our world.

Mr. Fox
Grades 6-8

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Member of the Wedding Carson McCullers • Barnes and Noble $7.15 3 $21.45
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster Jon Krakauer • Barnes and Noble $13.45 3 $40.35
The American Heritage High School Dictionary American Heritage Dictionaries (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $23.40 1 $23.40
Watership Down Richard Adams • Barnes and Noble $12.80 3 $38.40

Materials cost

$123.60

Vendor shipping charges

 $12.36

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.09

Fulfillment labor & materials

$17.00

Total project cost

$156.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$34.24

Total project goal

$190.24

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $190.24

7 Donors

-$183.53

Donations toward project cost

-$156.00

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$27.53

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$6.71

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 $0.00

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