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Mrs. W from San Jose, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Class Library: Let's Go Graphic!

Help me give my students access to classic literature and complex science concepts in the graphic novel format they love and can understand, even if they can't read "at grade-level."

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You can complete this project for $392.
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My Students

Our sixth-grade students are very diverse and have a lot of personality! At this age, students are "awakening" their "adult minds" and asking all the questions they can. It is a lot of fun to work with students in this grade-level, because they have a lot of opinions and ideas, as well as curiosities.

At our school, we have lots of cultural capitol and we focus on working together and supporting each other as a community.

Many of our students tend to praise and recognize one another on a regular basis, and often, the "new kids" are immediately "folded" into the existing social structure, gaining a family of friends in an instant. It is a real joy to watch them interact and explore as they mature.

These kids are at the "top of the heap" this year, as they finish elementary school. They start the year with a lot of confidence and bravado. That turns to nervousness and worries later on, as they begin to realize they will have to learn a whole new school and daily routine the next year, as they enter Middle School! In June, they will cry, but we tell them to come back anytime!

My Project

These days, students are most interested and excited to read books in graphic format. I try my best to encourage them to read "the classics," but they just moan and groan and avoid those books that look so "old fashioned."

I'm ready to try giving my students more graphic novels, in the hopes that they will spark interest in reading the original classic literature later down the road.

I am also hoping to give them more access to science through the format they prefer.

With your support, I can get more and more students interested in the "classic" stories, as well as reading more nonfiction, which builds their background knowledge and helps add new vocabulary to their repertoire.

Mrs. W Franklin Elementary School Grades 6-8

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More than half 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
Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation (Pantheon Graphic Library) • Amazon Business $17.97 1 $17.97
Science Comics: Rockets: Defying Gravity • Amazon Business $8.89 2 $17.78
They Called Us Enemy • Amazon Business $15.59 1 $15.59
Science Comics: Skyscrapers: The Heights of Engineering • Amazon Business $15.13 1 $15.13
Science Comics: Dinosaurs: Fossils and Feathers • Amazon Business $14.61 1 $14.61
To Kill a Mockingbird: A Graphic Novel • Amazon Business $14.39 1 $14.39
Science Comics: Plagues: The Microscopic Battlefield • Amazon Business $13.59 1 $13.59
Science Comics: Trees: Kings of the Forest • Amazon Business $13.30 1 $13.30
The Hobbit (Graphic Novel) with a subtitle of An illustrated edition of the fantasy classic • Amazon Business $12.89 1 $12.89
World War Two: Against The Rising Sun (Campfire Graphic Novels) • Amazon Business $12.75 1 $12.75
Science Comics: Coral Reefs: Cities of the Ocean • Amazon Business $12.74 1 $12.74
Science Comics: Volcanoes: Fire and Life • Amazon Business $12.19 1 $12.19
Poe: Stories and Poems: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Gareth Hinds • Amazon Business $11.67 1 $11.67
The Iliad • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
World War One: 1914-1918 (Campfire Graphic Novels) • Amazon Business $10.66 1 $10.66
The Jungle Book: The Graphic Novel (Campfire Graphic Novels) • Amazon Business $10.52 1 $10.52
Science Comics: The Brain: The Ultimate Thinking Machine • Amazon Business $10.49 1 $10.49
Science Comics: Solar System: Our Place in Space • Amazon Business $10.49 1 $10.49
The Wind in the Willows: The Graphic Novel (Campfire Graphic Novels) • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: The Graphic Novel (Campfire Graphic Novels) • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Frankenstein: The Graphic Novel (Campfire Graphic Novels) • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
The Land That Time Forgot: The Graphic Novel (Campfire Graphic Novels) • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Oliver Twist: The Graphic Novel (Campfire Graphic Novels) • Amazon Business $9.94 1 $9.94
The Swiss Family Robinson: The Graphic Novel (Campfire Graphic Novels) • Amazon Business $9.90 1 $9.90
The Odyssey • Amazon Business $9.89 1 $9.89
Moby Dick: The Graphic Novel (Campfire Graphic Novels) • Amazon Business $9.88 1 $9.88
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: The Graphic Novel (Campfire Graphic Novels) • Amazon Business $9.49 1 $9.49
Science Comics: Robots and Drones: Past, Present, and Future • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Harry Houdini: A Graphic Novel (Campfire Graphic Novels) • Amazon Business $8.96 1 $8.96
Science Comics: Wild Weather: Storms, Meteorology, and Climate • Amazon Business $8.89 1 $8.89
Gulliver's Travels: The Graphic Novel (Campfire Graphic Novels) • Amazon Business $8.72 1 $8.72
The Call of the Wild: The Graphic Novel (Campfire Graphic Novels) • Amazon Business $8.70 1 $8.70
The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance (Campfire Graphic Novels) • Amazon Business $8.70 1 $8.70

Materials cost

$379.77

Vendor shipping charges

 $22.94

Sales tax

 $34.75

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.70

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$473.16

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$83.50

Total project goal

$556.66

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $556.66

8 Donors

-$278.33

Donations toward project cost

-$236.58

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$41.75

match offer

-$278.33

Match offer toward project cost

-$236.58

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$41.75

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