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Mrs. Pockrus from Ogden UT is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Book Club Invites Local Author to Inspire Students

Help me give my students the Book Club books so we can all read them before the author, Jennifer Neilsen, visits.

  • $156 goal

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My Students

This grant is for a Junior High Library at an inner-city and Title 1 school. We have a very diverse student body of 850 students. We are culturally, ethnically, and economically diverse. Just this year in our library we started a book club to get more students into the library and reading. I have had a lot of enthusiasm from the students and teachers about this book club. I love to read and I love to share what I read with others and would like to be a resource for students in their reading careers.

It is clear to me that book clubs promote a love for literature and a positive attitude toward reading.

I also believe that book clubs encourage extensive and intensive reading of a text. By meeting in a non-classroom environment, natural discussions occur among students and critical thinking takes place.

My Project

At our first book club meeting I involved the students in the selection of our books for this year and one of the books we decided upon, "A Night Divided," is written by a local author. I have reached out to the author, Jennifer Nielsen, and she is willing to come to our schools when our group meets to discuss her book. She is also willing to include other classes for her presentation so we will be able to involve as many as 140 students.

This book club project will address Literacy, Language and History subjects as well as Applied Learning pedagogy.

The book club students are so excited to have this opportunity to meet an author, ask questions and feel inspired. Please consider our project.

Mrs. Pockrus
Grades 6-8

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
A Night Divided (Scholastic Gold) • Amazon Business $4.39 20 $87.80
A Night Divided (Scholastic Gold) • Amazon Business $4.39 3 $13.17

Materials cost

$100.97

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.51

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$132.48

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$23.38

Total project goal

$155.86

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $155.86

3 Donors

-$145.00

Donations toward project cost

-$123.25

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$21.75

match offer

-$10.86

Match offer toward project cost

-$9.23

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$1.63

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 $0.00

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