Core Ready: Reading Materials for Grade 8 Scholars
My students need 50 copies of the Common Core aligned novels To Kill a Mockingbird and A Midsummer Night's Dream to improve literacy and critical thinking skills.
FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Lindsey's classroom raised $590
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 8th 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 classes of 30 students per grade level. Unfortunately, my students have not received ELA materials. Instead, we have received texts that are intended mostly for 5th and 6th graders 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 by their end of the year project: a soundtrack with a description and analysis of all songs, which demonstrated both critical thinking and creativity. My students crave more opportunities to immerse themselves in novels that are reflective of their world and grade level.
My Project
Grade 8 students will read To Kill a Mockingbird and A Midsummer Night's Dream, focusing on close reading skills and the theme "Taking a Stand." Unit projects include Reader's Theater Montage and a confessional narrative from the point of view of one of the characters to explain his/her attempts to control and manipulate someone else in the play. All assessments are aligned with Common Core Learning Standards.
"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 around them.
Nearly all students from low‑income households
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