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Mr. O'Herlihy from San Leandro, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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BOO! A Horror History pt.2: Genre Narrative Through The Ages

My students need more access to these classic novels, which surprisingly have sustained momentum with our students. They have voraciously consumed the single editions of these.

FULLY FUNDED! Mr. O'Herlihy's classroom raised $839

This project is fully funded

My Students

We are a special education classroom that is inclusive of all academic levels. In our particular school security is an immediate concern and our population is extremely transient, some students may be in our classroom for one day while other may be in there for up to a year or more.

Our classroom creates an interesting challenge in how to create self contained class and yet provide materials for both self directed lessons and classroom group activities, like our reading and literacy center.

Some of the books are individual books that the students can access for projects they are concentrating on and other books are class sets like this project is comprised of. Our class sets are used in our reading class when we read a book together because of the particulars of where we work, reading fulfills different needs in our class.

My Project

The students have the books they are personally reading while not in class, like during personal; time or when in their rooms, since they live here at our school. What this project addresses is the constant hunger to access and read the classics, the few we have had have been voraciously consumed.

We have redesigned the literacy center to provide more class sets.

We will read them for class and they are generally accessible in class for them to further their reading interests when class time is over. The six class sets of books for this classroom project will fill the need for the constant access class sets. Our students are really excited as security concerns have in the past prevented us from having this literacy center in the main library, which we've now been granted access to create.

Mr. O'Herlihy Butler Academic Center Grades 9-12

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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More than half of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

350 students impacted 1donor

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
American Supernatural Tales (Penguin Horror) • Amazon $18.67 17 $317.39
Haunted Castles (Penguin Horror) • Amazon $17.64 17 $299.88

Materials cost

$617.27

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $56.48

3rd party payment processing fee

$9.26

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$713.01

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$125.83

Total project goal

$838.84

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $838.84

1 Donor

-$838.84

Donations toward project cost

-$713.01

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$125.83

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