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Ms. Schelewitz Gerdes from Chicago, IL is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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HS Juniors Need Mini-Reference Library

My students need 15 literary criticism books on British Romantic Era poetry for a required junior research paper assignment.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Schelewitz Gerdes's classroom raised $506

This project is fully funded

My Students

All juniors are required to write an extensive research paper using primary and secondary sources. This year, the subject of the research is English Romantic Poets and their work. The students need access to reliable resources so that they can be successful in this endeavor.

My students are Honors, Regular and Special Education juniors.

They are diverse when it comes to their experience, background, academic achievement and ability, but they all share a common desire to succeed and to work towards our school's one word mission: College. Our school is a neighborhood, public school in a large, urban city in Illinois.

My Project

The required research paper on the English Romantic Poets is a new topic for writing and research in our school. Because of this, we have very few resources in the classroom or in the library. By donating to this project, you will equip our class library with books that feature the work of the six major English Romantic Era poets; Blake, Byron, Coleridge, Keats, Shelly and Wordsworth. In addition to anthologies of their work, our request includes collections of critical analysis and biographies.

By donating to this project, you will make it possible for the students to do meaningful and relevant research.

You will help teach them the skills of learning about a subject in depth, reading and reviewing a number of sources to determine their significance and organizing the found information into a paper that helps to support their own, original thesis statements. These are skills that they will take with them to senior year and to college.

Ms. Schelewitz Gerdes Kenwood Academy Grades 9-12

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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More than half 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

Materials Cost Quantity Total
William Wordsworth Harold Bloom (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $38.47 1 $38.47
Percy Shelley Harold Bloom (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $38.47 1 $38.47
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - the Major Works Samuel Taylor Coleridge • Barnes and Noble $15.39 1 $15.39
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Harold Bloom (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $38.47 1 $38.47
Shelley Daniel Hahn • Barnes and Noble $14.48 1 $14.48
Keats's Poetry and Prose (Norton Critical Edition) John Keats, Jeffrey N. Cox (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $14.81 1 $14.81
Young Romantics: The Tangled Lives of English Poetry's Greatest Generation Daisy Hay • Barnes and Noble $18.81 1 $18.81
Wordsworth: A Life Juliet Barker • Barnes and Noble $14.48 1 $14.48
George Gordon, Lord Byron Harold Bloom (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $38.47 1 $38.47
Lord Byron (Bloom's Biocritiques Series) Harold Bloom (Editor), Harold Bloom, Contribution by Duke Pesta, Duke Pesta, Harold Bloom (Introduction) • Barnes and Noble $26.60 1 $26.60
English Romantic Poetry: An Anthology Stanley Appelbaum (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $2.99 8 $23.92
Wildly Romantic: The English Romantic Poets: The Mad, the Bad, and the Dangerous Catherine M. Andronik • Barnes and Noble $13.76 1 $13.76
English Romantic Poets: Modern Essays in Criticism M. H. Abrams, M. H. Abrams (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $34.19 1 $34.19
English Romantic Poets (Bloom's Period Studies Series) Harold Bloom (Editor), Harold Bloom (Translator), Contribution by Pamela Loos, Harold Bloom (Introduction) • Barnes and Noble $34.20 1 $34.20
John Keats Harold Bloom (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $34.20 1 $34.20

Materials cost

$398.72

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.98

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$439.70

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$65.70

Total project goal

$505.40

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$505.40

12 Donors

-$497.93

Donations toward project cost

-$439.70

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$58.23

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$7.47

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$0.00

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