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Ms. Lundskow from Glendale, AZ is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Books From the 80's Are Going Into Retirement!

Help me give my students two class sets of Ghost by Jason Reynolds to explore relevant, 21st century text and grow a love for life-long reading.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Lundskow's classroom raised $657

This project is fully funded

My Students

Teaching at a Title I middle school comes along with encountering a diverse group of promising scholars that learn at varying levels. About five years ago, we became a low-income school, and students with less opportunities and resources to be successful became the majority on our campus.

My students have skills to overcome adversity that not many students their age have even thought of experiencing before.

They are bright, inspiring and persevering. They learn the most from hands-on activities that allow them to think critically while still having fun and taking ownership of their learning. Their favorite things about my class are the risks I am willing to take to help keep them engaged and learning. They get excited when walking into my classroom to see that I have transformed it to resemble the setting of literature units. My students love the feeling of independence and learn from making mistakes. My students are brave as they navigate through this time in their lives, trying to find who they are. My students give me purpose, making me wonder everyday how I got so lucky to have a job like this.

My Project

Our 7th Grade novel selection has been here since our school opened about 30 years ago. Many of the novels we have available are outdated and unrelatable for my 21st century learners.

"Ghost" by Jason Reynolds is more or less the story of many of my students real lives.

When I read this book I thought of how many of my students would relate to this and knew this was a must have novel for our classroom. I want novels that my students will enjoy reading to help build life-long readers.

The messages and diction in this novel fit the demographics of my students and would be sure to engage my diverse range of kids. We would use this book for a novel study, where students will analyze themes, gain reading comprehension skills, and be exposed to real world and cultural experiences. The purposeful questions that will be posed during this novel study will spark thoughtful and in-depth class discussions. Myself and the other 7th Grade Language Arts teacher on campus would love to read this book and align curriculum!

Ms. Lundskow Desert Sky Middle School Grades 6-8 Glendale, AZ View local requests

More than a third 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

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Ghost (Track) • Amazon Business $6.48 75 $486.00

Materials cost

$486.00

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $34.75

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.29

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$558.04

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$98.48

Total project goal

$656.52

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $656.52

14 Donors

-$647.69

Donations toward project cost

-$558.04

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$89.65

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$8.83

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