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Mr. Brandstein from Brooklyn NY is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Building Multi-Level Book Clubs

My students need 5 copies each of 5 books of a variety of different genres and levels for book clubs.

  • $496 goal

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Celebrate Black Teachers and Students

This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.

My Students

Two of the greatest challenges facing teachers in the classroom are: 1. Finding relevant books that engage young people in a rich reading experience. 2. Differentiating instruction to meet the varied reading levels of the students in the class. Multi-level Book Groups are a way to address both.

My school is a small arts and music-based public high school in Downtown Brooklyn/DUMBO founded in 2005.

It currently serves over 400 students in grades 9-12, with about 100 students per grade. We primarily serve Brooklyn but our students come from all 5 boroughs of New York City. 80% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch.

My Project

To really take ownership over their own learning, students need to feel empowered in the classroom to make good choices. When working with struggling readers who have little connection to literacy in their lives, assigning whole class text for them to read is not going to lead to a successful learning experience. Self-selection is the term I use to describe the process of giving students to opportunity to engage with materials that they find important and interesting to them. The materials that I have requested here will present students with a wide variety of interesting and engaging topics from which they can select. Once they have selected the texts, they will form book groups (or clubs) with whom they can share the reading experience with. This process also serves to empower them, as they feel as if they are getting to create their own learning communities within the larger class. Students of similar reading and interest levels,supporting and encouraging each other.

To narrow the achievement gap in America and create true educational equity, ALL students must be held to the same high standards of learning.

Differentiated instruction should not mean lowering of expectations. By creating a shared reading experience through the use of book clubs, students are engaged in relevant and meaningful learning experiences that foster independent, higher order thinking.

Mr. Brandstein
Grades 9-12

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism Naomi Kl • AKJ Books $11.84 5 $59.20
Decoded • AKJ Books $25.90 5 $129.50
Strange Fruit • AKJ Books $9.61 5 $48.05
The Best of Simple • AKJ Books $11.10 5 $55.50
I''m Down • AKJ Books $17.72 5 $88.60

Materials cost

$380.85

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.71

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$421.56

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$74.39

Total project goal

$495.95

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $495.95

2 Donors

-$495.95

Donations toward project cost

-$421.56

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$74.39

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 $0.00

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