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Integrating interdisciplinary readings in our Spanish class!

Help me give my students a class set of the "El laberinto del fauno" or "Pan's Labyrinth" to give them the opportunity to read their first interdisciplinary Nobel reading in Spanish.

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Peraza's classroom raised $899

This project is fully funded

Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate 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 are ingenious, innovative, artistic, athletic, curious, talented, funny, risk-takers, goal-driven pathfinders. They thrive every day to become experts in their areas of interest: sports, Spanish, English, Biology, Music Band, Mathematics, Physics, Art, Astronomy, History, Cooking, Agriculture, and Architecture. They set foot in their school looking forward to positive experiences with each other and the subject they are learning. My students take on the challenges with courage, creativity, and an open mind and participate in debates, cooperative group discussions, study groups, presentations, research projects, and restorative justice activities.

My students are leaders involved in an array of events to better their school community.

They organize, plan, perform cultural events such as, "5 de Mayo," "Dia de Los Muertos," "African American Heritage Month, "Cancer Awareness Month" to integrate everyone and fortify their roots within our school. My students transform their classroom and home school with beautiful murals representing their beliefs, values, dreams, heritage, and love towards education. They are environmentally conscious and make our school green by planting, growing, and watering our school gardens and take pride in doing so. My students are empowered to make positive changes in themselves, their school, their community, and the world.

My Project

My students are limited in accessing authentic materials that incorporate storytelling, interdisciplinary content, culture, and language all in one Spanish reading Nobel. The Nobel "Pan's Labyrinth" or "El laberinto del fauno" by Guillermo del Toro includes all these elements. It captures student's imagination by taking them back to the fantasy stories they heard growing up and the reality of Spain during the Civil War. By reading this novel my students learn history, geography, art, culture, literature, and language as they develop their critical thinking skills by piecing together the literary elements of the story, identifying the parallel of the character’s reality and imagination, and exploring the conflicts, and views of the Spanish Society during the early 1900s.

The Nobel "Pan's Labyrinth" will give my students a powerful interdisciplinary learning experience by synthesizing knowledge from multiple disciplines.

My Heritage Spanish speakers will work in pairs and cooperative groups to identify the metaphors and symbols within the story and themes such as fantasy vs reality and fascism vs feminism. They will make a reading/movie critic audio/visual video in Spanish highlighting the plot, the characters’ journey, the main themes, and their overall thoughts about the meaning of the story and what they like and dislike.

My Heritage Spanish students will benefit greatly by adding "El laberinto del fauno" or “Pan’s labyrinth” to our Spanish classroom library which will be available for the next years to my new incoming students.

Mrs. Peraza Sylmar Charter High School Grades 9-12

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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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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Materials Cost Quantity Total
El laberinto del fauno / Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun (Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $18.95 35 $663.25

Materials cost

$663.25

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $60.69

3rd party payment processing fee

$9.95

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$763.89

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$134.80

Total project goal

$898.69

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $898.69

7 Donors

-$449.35

Donations toward project cost

-$381.95

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$67.40

match offer

-$449.34

Match offer toward project cost

-$381.94

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$67.40

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