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Ms. Georgantas from Grand Prairie TX is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Everybody Needs to Read 1984 at Some Point

Help me give my students a class set of the novel 1984 to expand their minds before they graduate.

  • $398 goal

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My Students

I teach at a suburban high school with about 3,500 students. It is a minority-majority campus, and lots of the kids are on the lower end of the socioeconomic scale. I came to the school after my first two years of teaching in a more rural school with much less diversity. I thought I had died and gone to teaching heaven! The kids were respectful, sweet, and eager to do well. Thirteen years later, they are still the main reason I stay at my school.

My seniors are about to leave the nest of the K-12 system and enter the world of #adulting.

Many have outside jobs, and some of them are even helping to support their families. They have grown up with their minds stuck deep in the world of social media and don't always question bad ideas the way they should. I want to help them learn to think more.

My Project

By the last three weeks of senior year, a lot of kids are just done. They are ready to graduate, tired of school, and looking forward to one last summer before college and/or the real world. I need a high interest novel with real world applications to make the kids think.

Exploring issues of freedom of speech and thought, manipulation of media, and government surveillance and control, 1984 is the starting point of a great discussion.

It's a classic that fits the genre of British Literature, but its modern applications will get kids thinking about our world in a whole new way.

With these books, media clips, and news articles, I hope to draw parallels between George Orwell's dystopian future and the world we live in today. How is it alike? How is it different? How can we as individuals exercise our minds while we are still free?

Ms. Georgantas
Grades 9-12

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
1984 (Signet Classics) • Amazon Business $7.58 40 $303.20

Materials cost

$303.20

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.55

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$337.75

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$59.60

Total project goal

$397.35

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $397.35

3 Donors

-$198.68

Donations toward project cost

-$168.88

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$29.80

match offer

-$198.67

Match offer toward project cost

-$168.87

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$29.80

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 $0.00

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