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Mr. Landry from San Diego, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Classic Novels for Advanced Middle School Readers

My students need classic novels like Moby Dick and The Scarlet Letter to read at home.

FULLY FUNDED! Mr. Landry's classroom raised $495

This project is fully funded

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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 Students

Students need to train for adult life the same way that professional athletes train for championship games: hard work, dedication, and a growth mindset. By the same token, though, they should take joy and pride in that training, and it is my job to give them that opportunity.

The first thing my students hear each day is, "Welcome, come on in and get logged in.

We've got a lot of work to do!" Their work is to learn, and they just need the tools. They always do the rest. Most come from families experiencing poverty, and about half of them are first-generation immigrants. Many have come from refugee camps and have seen violence in their homelands. Almost two-thirds of them are or were English language learners. At home, they are hearing Somali, Spanish, Vietnamese, Laotian, Cambodian, Ethiopian, Arabic, and other languages, in addition to English. This may sound like a recipe for chaos and disharmony, but they mix and mingle freely, finding friendship across boundaries of language, skin color, and religion. What strikes me most about these students is how many of them are so eager to learn and reach for a better life for themselves and their families.

My Project

These students are all reading several years above grade level, and the local library at our middle school just doesn't have enough books at these high lexile levels for advanced readers.

Our school library collection has been designed with struggling readers in mind, but the students I am teaching need something more challenging like "Moby Dick" or "The Scarlet Letter".

We've managed to get many kids over the threshold to becoming proficient readers in the last couple of years, but now it's time to push them beyond that so that they are ready for Advanced Placement (college) courses in 11th and 12th grades. This will ultimately help them get into better universities and help them earn scholarships and grants to pay for them.

Mr. Landry Clark Middle School Grades 6-8

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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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

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Shakespeare Alive!: America's Foremost Theater Producer Brings Shakespeare's England to Life • Amazon Business $7.19 5 $35.95
The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary (Fifth Edition) • Amazon Business $5.09 7 $35.63
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl • Amazon Business $4.97 6 $29.82
The Iliad • Amazon Business $14.06 2 $28.12
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress • Amazon Business $12.49 2 $24.98
Little Women (Mnemosyne Classics): Complete and Unabridged Classic Edition • Amazon Business $10.79 2 $21.58
Great Short Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Poems Tales Criticism (Perennial Classics) • Amazon Business $10.73 2 $21.46
The Odyssey • Amazon Business $10.17 2 $20.34
The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso • Amazon Business $9.95 2 $19.90
Don Quixote (Penguin Classics) • Amazon Business $9.60 2 $19.20
War and Peace (Oxford World's Classics) • Amazon Business $8.27 2 $16.54
The Scarlet Letter • Amazon Business $7.19 2 $14.38
Idylls of the King and a New Selection of Poems (Signet Classics) • Amazon Business $7.16 2 $14.32
Robinson Crusoe • Amazon Business $6.70 2 $13.40
The Three Musketeers (Signet Classics) • Amazon Business $5.44 2 $10.88
Gulliver's Travels: Jonathan Swift • Amazon Business $5.00 2 $10.00
Walden and Civil Disobedience • Amazon Business $4.09 2 $8.18
Moby Dick (Wordsworth Classics) • Amazon Business $3.95 2 $7.90

Materials cost

$352.58

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $32.26

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.29

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$420.13

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$74.14

Total project goal

$494.27

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $494.27

8 Donors

-$481.92

Donations toward project cost

-$420.13

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$61.79

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$12.35

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