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Mrs. Detro from Thibodaux LA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Comparing Fiction the Real Life

My students need a class set of the novel Fahrenheit 451.

  • $525 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

My classroom is comprised of a mixture of personalities and academic skills. I teach 9th-grade English Language Arts. They are first year high schoolers coming in scared, nervous and eager to learn, but most dislike reading.

My students come from various backgrounds with different levels of support at home.

One thing they all have in common is the commitments outside if the school day. Reading for pleasure has taken a backseat to technology and those outside commitments. Without support at home to encourage reading it must be done in class. We need an engaging novel with multiple take aways.

My Project

Fahrenheit 451 has been placed in our 9th-grade curriculum for next year. I am excited to share this fiction with my students because the premise of the fiction is becoming reality.

Aside from the skills the novel naturally lends itself to, we can explore how Montag's reality is becoming ours.

The novel lends itself to exploring point of view, character development, cause and effect and so on. I also want my students to explore how the printed word was banned and television (technology) is used as mind control. We will explore how losing the written word removes creativity and freedom of thought and how that has an effect on people.

Mrs. Detro
Grades 9-12

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Fahrenheit 451: A Novel • AKJ Education $10.78 35 $377.30

Materials cost

$377.30

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $33.01

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.66

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$445.97

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$78.70

Total project goal

$524.67

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $524.67

1 Donor

-$524.67

Donations toward project cost

-$445.97

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$78.70

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