Help me give my students a love of literature by giving them highly engaging texts. They'll be all the wiser for it.
FULLY FUNDED! Mr. Toledo's classroom raised $745
This project is fully funded
Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month
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 students seek responsibility and their eyes hunger for more words. I teach in an urban school in a populated city. Many of my students come from single-parent households and struggle with difficult home lives. However, once in our school, students understand the weight of their responsibility and delve blissfully into their work.
My students need to be challenged.
My current population has outgrown the current limitations of our curriculum, and they ask for more texts to read. Students have come to appreciate that the purpose of an education is not just a means to crafting a career but also a way to explore the prodigious world around them. My students love coming to school and have created such relationships to mirror family.
My Project
These materials will allow students to delve into contemporary texts and will give our curriculum a much needed modernization. Students tackle a text during class instruction and are assigned another to read independently at home. While students read at home, they are required to simultaneously answer questions that push their critical thinking. These questions challenge students to analyze authorial choices and effect on meaning as well as to consider the themes of the novel within the larger context of society. This book would be one assigned for home reading.
Students need challenging books that also appeal to their developing identities; the meeting of these concepts will heighten their reading ability and their concept of humanity.
This specific text caters to the students' desires to see elements of the teenage experience reflected in texts they consume. In order for students to complete the reading independently, the texts need to be engaging, something that these surely are. The discussion questions that accompany this text have already been drafted but have yet to be implemented due to lack of materials. Your support would allow students the opportunity to continue their developing analyses of age-appropriate texts.
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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