My students are creative and resilient young scholars who are dedicated to their education. They are hardworking and resilient! However, many of them come from low-income households and have taken on additional responsibilities as older siblings and work-aged teenagers.
Balancing these responsibilities with online learning has been challenging for many of our students but they have been rising to that challenge!
While students may struggle to make it to our daily classes do to other responsibilities or problems with access, they have been diligently and creatively engaging in learning from a distance.
My Project
My students are forced to stare at screens for most of the day due to the nature of online learning. While they are continuing to complete the work and do the digital reading I have been assigning them, we are all missing the comforting feel of a physical book and the ability to highlight and underline a text. We will be breaking into groups and reading Angie Thomas's The Hate U Give and Max Brooks's World War Z.
My students are begging for high-interest literature that they can annotate and that will keep them engaged in reading.
With these texts, I can keep my students learning and analyzing texts in a fun and relevant way.
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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