My students need literature that will transport them to ancient worlds. History is best taught through stories. Historical fiction teaches history and literature.
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My Students
Public schools face challenges beyond budget cuts. Watered down curriculum in the form of the mandated "reading series" prevents us from teaching students to devour a 300-page novel. We need to get full novels into the hands of young readers, anthologies with "excerpts" are insufficient.
I work in a gifted magnet that services a cross-section of public school children in Los Angeles County.
I teach a group of 34 sixth grade students who love learning and require extensive amounts of material to feed their curiosity. I have very limited funding to purchase literature sets for reading instruction and our school district has a ban on asking students to purchase their own books (most can't afford the books anyway). Every year I deplete the limited set of novels that are available to my students for quality reading instruction. I need new books and I need them soon!
My Project
New sets of literature will allow me to service the needs of a gifted population for whom the District's core reading program is insufficiently challenging and boring. The students in my program are quite frankly offended that the reading anthology only gives them one chapter of a novel, e.g., Julie of the Wolves, Island of the Blue Dolphins. Gifted students welcome the challenge of reading long, interesting, and thought provoking literature. They want to learn, question, and apply new learning. In these classes are the authors of tomorrow who need to be inspired and motivated by complete works of literature, not "excerpts."
Regardless of the medium which will carry on great literature, ebooks or paperbacks, our students need to read, and they need to read full-length books.
I need literature that will reach my diverse population of gifted learners. These kids need to be inspired by great literature, they are tomorrow's great authors.
More than a third of 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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