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Critical Literacy! Help Us Read the World!

My students need 3 titles to start their literature circles, A.K.A. Book Clubs!!!

  • $520 goal

This project expired on April 4, 2012.

This project expired on April 4, 2012.

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Ms. Yoo Roosevelt High School MSTMA
Los Angeles, CA Grades 9-12

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This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Students

Do you remember the book that changed your life? The book that helped you understand the world we live in? My students are learning about race, class, and gender, but our textbook room is sad and barren.

My amazing students walk on cracked concrete; they walk by bullet-holed buildings, fenced in classrooms, and barred windows.

They pursue excellence in a school that has seen 3 principals in the past 6 years, a school that locks bathroom doors during lunch and nutrition, and randomly sends in police K-9s to search students. They see violence and poverty but continue to work for a better future for themselves and their community. They are strong, resilient, and committed to their education.

My Project

Help us start Literature Circles, A.K.A. Book Clubs!!! My students love reading novels and discussing it with their peers. Through your donations they will deepen their learning and practice of critical literacy. In small cooperative groups, using different lenses such as race, class, and gender, they will use these three seminal texts to begin examining the world we live in and themselves. In cooperative groups students will help each other become critical readers. Not only will they be engaging in meaningful reading, speaking, and writing, they will also be prepared for their AP Literature exam by senior year!

The literature we read as teenagers helps shape our view of the world.

My students live in hard conditions where resources are limited, however, their reservoir of hope is full. By donating these three titles you will assist my students in reading stories that exemplify transformative resistance. You will help my students find their voices in a world that too often silences them.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

More than three‑quarters of students from low‑income households

Never Before Funded 30 students impacted
Ms. Yoo Roosevelt High School MSTMA Grades 9-12

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Los Angeles, CA View local requests

More than three‑quarters 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

Never Before Funded 30 students impacted

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Their Eyes Were Watching God • AKJ Books $12.57 10 $125.70
Color Purple, The • AKJ Books $11.06 10 $110.60
The Invisible Man • AKJ Books $11.80 10 $118.00
Cultural Contexts for Ralph Ellison''s Invisible Man • AKJ Books $12.78 1 $12.78

Materials cost

$367.08

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $33.59

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.51

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$441.18

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$77.86

Total project goal

$519.04

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