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Ms. Parsons from Winston Salem, NC is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Building Big Readers: Classic & Contemporary Novels for Our Classroom

Help me give my students engaging, rigorous novels that invite them to explore history, identity, relationships, choices, and the enduring questions that connect readers across cultures and generations.

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Ms. Parsons R.J. Reynolds High School
Winston Salem, NC Grades 9-12

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This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Project

My students are thoughtful, curious readers who deserve opportunities to encounter books that challenge them academically while also giving them something meaningful to discuss, question, and connect to their own lives. In our English classroom, we do more than read for plot. Students examine how authors develop ideas, analyze characters and conflicts, evaluate an author’s choices, discuss multiple interpretations, and use evidence to develop their own arguments.

This project will provide classroom sets of three very different novels: *Anna Karenina*, *Between Shades of Gray*, and *Alice in Wonderland*.

Together, these texts will allow my students to experience literature across different genres, time periods, cultures, and levels of complexity. Students might investigate the social expectations and complicated relationships of *Anna Karenina*, examine survival and humanity within the historical context of *Between Shades of Gray*, or explore language, logic, identity, and imagination through *Alice in Wonderland*.

Having enough copies for students to read these books together makes a tremendous difference. Instead of relying only on short excerpts, students can follow ideas across an entire work, notice patterns in an author's craft, participate in sustained discussions, and build the reading stamina necessary for high school, college, and life beyond the classroom.

Most importantly, I want my students to see themselves as people who are capable of reading ambitious books. These novels will help me create a classroom where challenging literature is not something reserved for a select few, but something every student can access, discuss, question, and make their own.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Nearly all students from low‑income households

220 students impacted 4 donors
Ms. Parsons R.J. Reynolds High School Grades 9-12

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Winston Salem, NC View local requests

Nearly all 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

220 students impacted 4donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Between Shades of Gray • Amazon Business $8.33 40 $333.20
Alice in Wonderland: The Original 1865 Edition With Complete Illustrations By Sir John Tenniel (A Classic Novel of Lewis Carroll) • Amazon Business $7.99 40 $319.60
Anna Karenina (Signet Classics) • Amazon Business $7.95 40 $318.00

Materials cost

$970.80

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $75.72

3rd party payment processing fee

$14.56

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,091.08

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$192.54

Total project goal

$1,283.62

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,283.62

3 Donors

-$463.00

Donations toward project cost

-$393.55

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$69.45

match offer

-$25.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$21.25

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$3.75

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 $795.62

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