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Ms. King from Pawtucket RI is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Climbing Everest: Engaging the Reluctant Reader

Help me give my students a reading experience that will remind them how wonderful it is to read a great book.

  • $496 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

7th graders in a depressed socioeconomic neighborhood. Being in the classroom full-time this year for the first time in almost two years. Developing into a well-rounded and respectful individual requires kids to learn about the world through various media. Nearly all of them are reluctant readers who don't believe they can read a whole novel.

I want to change these reluctant readers into adventurers willing to climb into the Death Zone.

My Project

Education has been disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Many of my students have not been in a real classroom in two years. During distance learning, many students didn't have proper access to materials or consistent connections to the Internet. They were constantly staring at screens.

Over the last two years, my students haven't had a chance to be normal middle schoolers.

Reading a novel and learning to keep track of longer stories is essential to becoming a strong reader. The book I want to get for my students is about a kid around their age who goes on an unbelievable adventure, something that seems impossible in a worldwide pandemic.

Ms. King
Grades 6-8

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Peak (A Peak Marcello Adventure) • Amazon Business $6.43 60 $385.80

Materials cost

$385.80

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.79

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$421.59

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$74.40

Total project goal

$495.99

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$495.99

11 Donors

-$495.99

Donations toward project cost

-$421.59

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$74.40

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$0.00

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Project Activity

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