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Ms. Duncan from Georgetown KY is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

From Twain to King: 1st Class Passage to Read

Help me give my students a more diverse selection of classroom book sets.

  • $707 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

I teach English at a small, but steadily growing alternative school in central Kentucky. Many of my students have struggled in school in the past. When they come to us, some of them begin to think of themselves as capable learners for the first time in their lives.

I have a variety of different types of students: the quiet studious ones who have made reading a life-long habit, the ones who read but only when required to do so, and the resistant ones who have never completed a book in their entire lives.

I am constantly striving to find reading materials that will engage and inspire all these learners.

My Project

I have selected a variety of classroom sets based on several criteria: student interest, academic rigor, thematic importance, cultural diversity, and mix of genres. I am trying to build a better library from which I can pull to allow for student class choice. For example, normally I let students help me decide which novel or play to read next. Students make suggestions and then the class votes. However, I have had students asking me for two years to read The Outsiders, but I did not have a classroom set for reading. This inspired me to create this project.

I am a better teacher when the students in my classroom are partners in their learning.

When students have a choice, it gives them a voice and a connection to what is going on in class. This increases class engagement and class learning because the students realize that they have a stake in what they are learning and why they are learning.

Ms. Duncan
Grades 9-12

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Bluest Eye • AKJ Education $10.91 10 $109.10
Scholastic Scope, Grades 6-8 (min. 10 subscriptions per order) • Scholastic Magazines and Book Clubs $9.99 10 $99.90
Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone • AKJ Education $6.83 12 $81.96
Carrie • AKJ Education $5.83 12 $69.96
Slaughterhouse-Five • AKJ Education $5.83 12 $69.96
The Outsiders • AKJ Education $5.79 12 $69.48
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn • AKJ Education $4.34 12 $52.08

Materials cost

$552.44

Vendor shipping charges

$9.99

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$8.29

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$600.72

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$106.01

Total project goal

$706.73

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$706.73

9 Donors

-$420.86

Donations toward project cost

-$357.73

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$63.13

match offer

-$285.87

Match offer toward project cost

-$242.99

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$42.88

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$0.00

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