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Broadening Brains with Books
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My Students
After a year away in 8th grade, I am back with my 6th graders and ready to get them into all types of literature. My passion for 6th grade and 6th grade students comes from their enthusiasm, ambition, creativity, diversity, and open-mindedness.
The young adolescent mind is full of wonder and curiosity about the world around them, as well as worlds only imagined. A classroom of sixth grade readers ranges from avid, voracious readers to readers who are just emerging and getting a grasp on the benefits of literacy.
No matter the end of the spectrum on which they may fall, my diverse learners all have the ambition and curiosity to explore more literature.
My Project
Mark Twain once said, "The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who can't read them." Getting the RIGHT books into the hands of students is so very important.
Donations from this project will do just that - surround students quality literature. If this project is funded, our small classroom library will be overflowing with quality books of all types to pique the interest of the diverse learners in our classroom.
The impact this project will have on the lives of my students is incalculable because literacy is progress, it is a bridge to foreign lands, it is an escape. Literature opens minds, it allows us to step foot in another man's shoes, it betters our lives.
This classroom project was brought to life by The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
and 9 other donors.
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Where Your Donation Goes
Materials
Cost
Quantity
Total
Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans (Ala Notable Children's Books. Older Readers)
• Amazon Business
$12.58
1
$12.58
Circus Mirandus
• Amazon Business
$12.36
1
$12.36
Library of Souls: The Third Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children
• Amazon Business
$12.23
1
$12.23
Brown Girl Dreaming (Newbery Honor Book)
• Amazon Business
$11.89
1
$11.89
Pax
• Amazon Business
$11.31
1
$11.31
Be a Changemaker: How to Start Something That Matters
• Amazon Business
$10.49
1
$10.49
Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story
• Amazon Business
$10.42
1
$10.42
Booked
• Amazon Business
$10.36
1
$10.36
Fish in a Tree
• Amazon Business
$10.36
1
$10.36
The Crossover
• Amazon Business
$10.36
1
$10.36
The Thing About Jellyfish
• Amazon Business
$9.79
1
$9.79
Wonder
• Amazon Business
$9.75
1
$9.75
Every Single Second
• Amazon Business
$9.65
1
$9.65
Eleven and Holding
• Amazon Business
$9.65
1
$9.65
Lumberjanes Vol. 1: Beware The Kitten Holy
• Amazon Business
$9.50
1
$9.50
Lumberjanes Vol. 2: Friendship To The Max
• Amazon Business
$9.50
1
$9.50
Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science
• Amazon Business
$8.65
1
$8.65
I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition)
• Amazon Business
$8.40
1
$8.40
Stella by Starlight
• Amazon Business
$7.99
1
$7.99
Nimona
• Amazon Business
$7.92
1
$7.92
The Book Thief
• Amazon Business
$7.79
1
$7.79
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children)
• Amazon Business
$7.63
1
$7.63
Breaker Boys: How a Photograph Helped End Child Labor (Captured History)
• Amazon Business
$7.22
1
$7.22
The One and Only Ivan
• Amazon Business
$7.19
1
$7.19
Darkness Before Dawn
• Amazon Business
$7.19
1
$7.19
Forged by Fire
• Amazon Business
$7.19
1
$7.19
Laughing at My Nightmare
• Amazon Business
$7.12
1
$7.12
Tears of a Tiger
• Amazon Business
$6.99
1
$6.99
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
• Amazon Business
$5.92
1
$5.92
Materials cost
$267.40
Vendor shipping charges
$3.99
Sales tax
$20.86
3rd party payment processing fee
$4.01
Fulfillment labor & materials
$30.00
Total project cost
$326.26
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
$57.58
Total project goal
$383.84
How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal
$383.84
-$253.92
Donations toward project cost
-$220.93
Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
-$32.99
-$123.92
Match offers toward project cost
-$105.33
Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
-$18.59
Excluded support for DonorsChoose
-$6.00
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