My students need books in our classroom library that help them empathize with a variety of multiethnic cultures and life circumstances.
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My Students
This year I am excited to transition to a new position at the middle school level! I will be teaching reading and writing to 80 sixth graders throughout several periods of the day. I will have students that come from a variety of cultural and socioeconomic contexts. At our school, 26.6% of our students are Hispanic: 10% speak limited English, and 35.8% are considered low income. Many students come from homes where they've not been read to, or have had libraries of their own.
The heart of my classroom is that all students have access to quality, rich, and rigorous literature.
Not only is there opportunity to develop reading skills and strategies, but, also, to participate in facilitated class and small group discussions which help students connect literature themes to their own lives. Teacher-student individualized conferences take place on a daily basis.
The classroom is often the first place that a student connects with a book, or a character in literature, in ways that play a part in shaping his/her own personal and emotional growth. It is a deeply meaningful experience to offer care, both academically and emotionally, to students, within my classroom!
My Project
“Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability to feel empathy for people we've never met, living lives we couldn't possibly experience for ourselves, because the book puts us inside the character's skin." -Ann Patchett
Having a wide variety of books in my classroom library, will not only support my sixth grade students as readers and writers, but will provide them with an opportunity to develop empathy for others.
Though not a complete selection, perhaps, the books chosen in this project will help nurture empathy and understanding for others who don't share our same experience.
C.S. Lewis wrote, "We read to know we are not alone."
I'm reminded, also, that by providing students with a range of books, they have the wonderful opportunity to discover that the thoughts and feelings they hold in their hearts, and the lives that they, or their family has lived in the past, are true of others in the world, too. They are not alone.
Some of the chosen books will not only help students to empathize with others' experiences, but will give them a picture of people who fought against persecution and great odds, for their value as a people.
Last of all, some books simply highlight the beauty of different ethnic cultures.
More than a third 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
The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia (Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children (Awards))
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$16.52
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$16.52
We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball
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$15.66
1
$15.66
Portraits of Hispanic American Heroes
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$15.18
1
$15.18
Auggie & Me: Three Wonder Stories
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$13.59
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$13.59
The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club (Bccb Blue Ribbon Nonfiction Book Award (Awards))
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$12.98
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$12.98
Wonder
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$10.19
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$10.19
Yellow Star
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$9.83
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$9.83
The First Rule of Punk
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$8.99
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$8.99
Seedfolks
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$8.99
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$8.99
This Is the Rope: A Story from the Great Migration
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$8.80
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$8.80
I Lived on Butterfly Hill
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$8.49
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$8.49
Dear America: The Fences Between Us
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$8.36
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$8.36
The Red Pencil
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$7.99
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$7.99
The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963
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$7.99
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$7.99
Ninth Ward
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$7.84
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$7.84
Hour of the Bees
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$7.19
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$7.19
Kira-Kira
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$7.19
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$7.19
Inside Out and Back Again
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$7.19
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$7.19
The Only Road
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$7.10
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$7.10
Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer
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$6.29
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$6.29
Save Me a Seat (Scholastic Gold)
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$6.00
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$6.00
Walk Two Moons
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$5.94
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$5.94
Stef Soto, Taco Queen
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$4.63
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$4.63
Materials cost
$212.93
Vendor shipping charges
FREE
Sales tax
$18.63
3rd party payment processing fee
$3.19
Fulfillment labor & materials
$30.00
Total project cost
$264.75
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
$46.72
Total project goal
$311.47
How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal
$311.47
7 Donors
-$310.41
Donations toward project cost
-$264.75
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