My students need a class set of Tim O'Brien's, "The Things They Carried," and Toni Morrison's, "The Bluest Eye."
FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Chung's classroom raised $937
This project is fully funded
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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
My sophomores are feeling the burn! My once-naive freshmen have been jolted abruptly into sophomore year without the necessary resources to engage them in the joy of literature. To excite my students into literature again, I need a series of high-interest novels.
My current group of students is particularly special to me because I have had the opportunity to teach them when they were seventh graders and now, when they are sophomores.
Watching them grow into young adults has been both poignant and a struggle as I recognize some of their weaknesses in middle school have become ingrained habits. The texts that I have chosen will both inspire and challenge them. They are texts of embarking on great adventures and texts coming into one's own. They are novels of great sorrow, great joy - they are novels of life.
My Project
My students need a variety of high interest texts that are relatable, motivational, and exciting. Too often are English classrooms relegated to following the canon - oftentimes losing students in the old rhetoric. My students deserve to have an opportunity to savor language and life through novels that embody what life is like TODAY - not 100 years ago.
Currently, my school does not have the funding needed to update classroom texts. The books that we currently have are falling apart and antiquated. There is not enough variety to really encompass the many reading levels of my students - many of my students find themselves either reading a book that is too hard or a book too easy. As English teachers, we are stuck teaching the same texts over and over again - texts that continue to go over our students' heads in diction and language. My students deserve to read about characters that seem truly real to them, characters that they see in everyday life.
With your generous donations, you will be able to rekindle in my students their love of reading and, most importantly, a love of books.
Technology is on the verge of driving books into extinction and it has become even more essential for us to remind kids how wonderful it is to hold a book in your hands and to treat it as a dear friend. I have no doubt that your small gift to our classroom will be the catalyst to many life-changing experiences in both the real and imaginary world.
Nearly all 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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