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Gripping Graphic Novels for a New World!

Help me give my students four highly engaging graphic novels to choose from for their Lit Circles unit that is coming up! We are studying narrative elements and author's purpose, and these novels will serve as mentor texts!!

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Peano's classroom raised $814

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My Students

My students are juniors who want to challenge themselves and they will be taking an Honors-level course, which, for many of them, will be their first Honors class. I want to make the class as engaging as possible and incorporate literature with relevant texts, pushing them not only to engage in rigorous readings but to make the work highly engaging.

Our students are the forgotten kids: low-income students at a neighborhood school, students who are diverse learners, ELL students, immigrants from over 30 different countries, students at serious risk of dropping out.

Yet, despite these diverse factors, they all have one thing in common—they are amazing.

This junior year Honors course is an important stepping stone for them—it paves the way to a Dual Credit or Advanced Placement college-level course for them, but it can be daunting. With colleges placing more and more of an emphasis on independent thesis statements and text to text connections, I want to teach my students how to develop these skills before they ever leave our high school, and having engaging reading content is the key.

My Project

The reason we want highly engaging reading material right now is that we don't know if at some point our students will return to remote learning, as the COVID numbers in Chicago are rapidly rising. So we are planning ahead just in case, and if we don't go back to remote learning, we will happily engage with this unit in the school building! But if my students have a book I know they will want to read, even if they are stuck at home, then they will be set no matter what.

The graphic novels they study will extend our Dystopian Unit, where we have examined why authors create the worlds they create, and what real-life events have led to the message the author wants to send.

In other words, what stories should we tell and what's the best way to tell them? These skills, where students combine analysis of author's purpose with interpreting why the author/illustrator chooses to convey their message through these particular narrative and visual elements, will lead to students then evaluating the effectiveness of these authorial choices as create their own Book Pitch for a graphic novel their group conceives of to send a message they feel is needed right now in our own world, whether that message is about human rights, climate change, threats to desmocracy, immigration, women's rights, LGTBQ rights, disability rights, or animal welfare.

Ms. Peano Roosevelt High School Grades 9-12

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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

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Sentient • Amazon Business $17.99 12 $215.88
Anya's Ghost • Amazon Business $15.99 12 $191.88
Through the Woods • Amazon Business $12.99 12 $155.88
Long Way Down: The Graphic Novel • Amazon Business $10.99 8 $87.92

Materials cost

$651.56

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$9.77

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$691.33

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$122.00

Total project goal

$813.33

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $813.33

14 Donors

-$786.86

Donations toward project cost

-$691.33

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$95.53

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$26.47

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 $0.00

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