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It's All Greek to 5th Graders!

My students need a class set of 20 copies of Rick Riordan's "The Lightning Thief", 6 copies each of the remaining books in the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series and a collection of archery and fencing resources, including bows, targets, safety glasses and boffers.

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Mrs. Rodriguez Dawson Elementary School
Austin, TX Grades 3-5

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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.

Most fifth graders HATE reading. At my high-poverty urban elementary, most students openly admit to not reading at home. I teach fifth grade to bilingual and inclusion students: some are monolingual English, some are bilingual English/Spanish speakers, and some have special needs ranging from dyslexia to bipolar disorder and ADHD. Our students are high-need, high-poverty, and have little parental involvement. There is high mobility at our school, and more than one student has been to more than a dozen different schools by the time they arrived in my classroom.

Given all these obstacles, I'm proud to say that every year my students LOVE to read. Although there are moments of literary discovery all year long, nothing hooks them like "The Lightning Thief" - the first book in a series of five novels written by fellow Texan (and former teacher) Rick Riordan. "The Lightning Thief" tells the tale of a troubled sixth grader with dyslexia and ADHD who finds himself followed by monsters. The series is all about Greek mythology, and in the last two years I have taught this book, my students have shown a voracious interest in learning about mythology and making connections to Greek references in our modern lives.

I have compiled a small collection of resources to help my students better understand Greek mythology: comic books, webquests about mythological monsters, and plays that we perform in front of the whole school. But there a few resources that I lack which would truly bring the story alive to my students. First and foremost, I'd like to end the battles for my few classroom copies by having a class set of the novel so that students can follow along as I read aloud in class, and take their copy home at night. Secondly, for the students who wish to continue reading the novels in the series, I'd like to have a set of the four other books in the series. Finally, I'd like the students to be able to reenact some of the book's events by supplying them with a once-in-a-lifetime experience learning archery and swordfighting (with SAFE fencing equipment, of course!). Many of my students are at high-risk of dropping out school, where they wouldn't otherwise have the opportunity to learn these elite sports. "The Lightning Thief" describes these sports in context, in a way that is understandable and fascinating to them, and giving them the chance to actually try out these sports would be extraordinary.

Your help will give my students a remarkable opportunity to truly dive into another world via literature. Please help them get a glance of the Greek culture that inspired so many things in our modern world!

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Nearly all students from low‑income households

25 students impacted 14 donors
Mrs. Rodriguez Dawson Elementary School Grades 3-5

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Austin, TX View local requests

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

25 students impacted 14donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Bear Archery Compound Bows— Explorer 20 " • Sportime, Inc. $32.99 3 $98.97
Boffers • Sportime, Inc. $33.99 3 $101.97
Archery Safety Glass™ Arrows 28" (71cm) Pack of 72 • Sportime, Inc. $169.99 1 $169.99
Square, Flat Face Archery Target — 48" D (1.2m) • Sportime, Inc. $16.99 3 $50.97
Square, Flat Face Archery Target —36" D (.9m) • Sportime, Inc. $9.99 2 $19.98
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series #1) Rick Riordan • Barnes and Noble $5.98 20 $119.60
Last Olympian (Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series #5) Rick Riordan • Barnes and Noble $11.69 6 $70.14
Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series #4), Vol. 4 Rick Riordan • Barnes and Noble $7.19 6 $43.14
The Titan's Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series #3) Rick Riordan • Barnes and Noble $7.19 6 $43.14
Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series #2) Rick Riordan, Tk (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $7.19 6 $43.14
Percy Jackson: The Demigod Files Rick Riordan • Barnes and Noble $10.36 3 $31.08
Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series #1) Rick Riordan, Read by Jesse Bernstein • Barnes and Noble $15.99 2 $31.98

Materials cost

$824.10

Vendor shipping charges

 $82.41

Sales tax

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3rd party payment processing fee

$12.36

Fulfillment labor & materials

$9.00

Total project cost

$928.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$203.71

Total project goal

$1,131.71

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,131.71

13 Donors

-$1,131.71

Donations toward project cost

-$928.00

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$203.71

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