Core Ready: Reading Materials For Grade 7 Scholars
My students need 55 copies of Lyddie (Puffin Modern Classics).
FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Lindsey's classroom raised $400
This project is fully funded
My Students
"What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it thinks about education," said Harold Howe, former U.S. Commissioner of Education. I teach 60 7th graders who daily come to class hungry to engage, interpret and imagine a text, but do not have access to novels.
My students are highly motivated diverse learners who have worked successfully given the very limited resources provided both by home and school.
My school has recently expanded grades 7 and 8 into a historically elementary school building. There are two, 30 student classes, per grade level. Unfortunately, my students have not received ELA materials. Instead, we have received texts that are majority for 5th and 6th grade; given to me by teachers in the building.
Through money I was able to acquire by getting a second job, we completed one novel last school year. All learners were actively engaged and immersed and their end of the year project: a newspaper, demonstrated both critical thinking and creativity. My students crave for more opportunities to immerse themselves in novels that are reflective of their world and grade level.
My Project
Students will use the novels as central texts in the EngageNY.org ,7th Grade Common Core ELA Modules. Students will read Lyddie and The Narrative of Frederick Douglass. They will explore the issue of working conditions, historical and modern and analyze the interaction between people, setting and events in a literary texts. Students will also focus on language and how it is used in powerful ways to support a position. Unit projects include: a research project that explores how businesses can affect working conditions, guide to working conditions and a retelling of one event in The Narrative of Fred. as a children's story.
"The objective of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives." - Robert Maynard Hutchins
This is the direction I desire for all of my students; that my classroom become a sanctuary for creative expression and a spark for students to begin to ask question about themselves, their community and the world.
Donations would provide grade appropriate reading novels for highly motivated learners hungry to explore themselves and the world(s) around them.
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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