I teach 9th and 11th grade at a high poverty school in Delaware. Many of my students have experienced little success in school and in response have developed a myriad of strategies for avoiding work. Reaching them poses a significant challenge under the best of circumstances, let alone during these trying time. Most of them want to do well in school, but do not want to risk further academic failure or embarrassment. Add to this students with special needs, English language learners, and those who are simply apathetic toward school and you have a recipe for widespread failure.
However, despite all of the obstacles in their way, my students know school has something to offer them and desperately want to find what it is.
My job is to facilitate my students' journey from struggling, reluctant learners to life long lovers of education.
My Project
This year in all English classes across our school students are allowed to read books they pick, regardless of level or topic, for at least 20 minutes every day. As a result, more students are asking me for specific books, whether by title, author, or genre than ever before. This is concrete evidence that the program is working and I need your help to ensure its continued success.
My students want to read; unfortunately, the majority of the books they have been forced to read are boring, dull, or outdated.
The solution to this problem is easy - let them read books they want to read. I need your help providing them with books they have asked for.
I am asking for 25 books encompassing a wide variety of levels, topics, and genres to help meet this need. Whether they are books kids specifically asked for (the Michael Vey books, Prairie Fire) or genres (lots of YA mysteries - The Soft Place to Land, A Silence of Bones) and topics (Dear Evan Hansen, All Out, Cinderella is Dead) these are books they will read, enjoy, and learn from because they WANT to read them.
The Book of Awesome Black Americans: Scientific Pioneers, Trailblazing Entrepreneurs, Barrier-Breaking Activists and Afro-Futurists (Teen and YA Cultural Heritage, African-American Biographies)
• Amazon Business
$10.96
3
$32.88
Long Way Down
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$6.78
3
$20.34
Prairie Fire
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$18.99
1
$18.99
Big Shot Diary of a Wimpy Kid Book 16
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$9.00
2
$18.00
From the Desk of Zoe Washington
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$16.99
1
$16.99
All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages
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$16.99
1
$16.99
Dear Evan Hansen: The Novel
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$15.99
1
$15.99
call me him.: a transgender coming-of-age story
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$14.99
1
$14.99
Jump!: From the Life of Michael Jordan
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$14.79
1
$14.79
The Last Fallen Star (A Gifted Clans Novel) (Rick Riordan Presents)
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$14.49
1
$14.49
A Soft Place to Land
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$14.21
1
$14.21
Concrete Rose
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$13.98
1
$13.98
Cinderella Is Dead
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$13.30
1
$13.30
Michael Vey 2: Rise of the Elgen (2)
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$11.69
1
$11.69
Silence of Bones
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$10.99
1
$10.99
Michael Vey 3: Battle of the Ampere (3)
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$10.79
1
$10.79
Aru Shah and the End of Time (A Pandava Novel, Book 1) (Pandava Series, 1)
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$9.99
1
$9.99
Michael Vey: The Prisoner of Cell 25 (Book 1)
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$8.46
1
$8.46
They Both Die at the End
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$8.37
1
$8.37
The Deep End (Diary of a Wimpy Kid Book 15)
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$7.38
1
$7.38
Materials cost
$293.61
Vendor shipping charges
FREE
Sales tax
$0.00
3rd party payment processing fee
$4.40
Fulfillment labor & materials
$30.00
Total project cost
$328.01
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
$57.88
Total project goal
$385.89
How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal
$385.89
3 Donors
-$226.92
Donations toward project cost
-$218.67
Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
-$8.25
match offer
-$128.63
Match offer toward project cost
-$109.34
Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
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