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Ms. Chung from Bronx, NY is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Life-Changing Books for Life-Changing Kids

My students need multiple copies of 4 books, including "Water for Elephants" and "The Perks of Being a Wallflower".

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Chung's classroom raised $511

This project is fully funded

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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 sophomores are a particularly wonderful group of energetic young adults living particularly difficult lives. My students need an opportunity to connect to others--through literature, themes, and characters. They need a chance to feel that they are not the only ones in the world facing hardship.

For many of my sophomores, they stand at a crossroads--facing tough decisions that kids shouldn't have to face & facing tough decisions that all kids make.

For many of them, this will be the year that they decide whether or not they will continue on with school and jump on the road towards college; or wander off the road of schooling altogether. My students need high-interest books to spur them into the academic world. They love to read--it's just that they so rarely get great books to do so. My students need a variety of high interest texts that are relatable, motivational, and exciting. Too often are English classrooms relegated to following the canon - oftentimes losing students in the old rhetoric. My students deserve to have an opportunity to savor language and life through novels that embody what life is like TODAY - not 100 years ago.

My Project

Currently, my school does not have the funding needed to update classroom texts. The books that we currently have are falling apart and antiquated. There is not enough variety to really encompass the many reading levels of my students - many of my students find themselves either reading a book that is too hard or a book too easy. As English teachers, we are stuck teaching the same texts over and over again - texts that continue to go over our students' heads in diction and language. My students deserve to read about characters that seem truly real to them, characters that they see in everyday life. The books that I have selected encompass a large variety of themes that filter into their own lives, filled with characters asking themselves "Who am I?" and "Why am I here?" These are all questions that my own students are currently asking themselves.

With your generous donations, you will be able to rekindle in my students their love of reading and, most importantly, a love of books.

Technology is on the verge of driving books into extinction and it has become even more essential for us to remind kids how wonderful it is to hold a book in your hands and to treat it as a dear friend. I have no doubt that your small gift to our classroom will be the catalyst to many life-changing experiences in both the real and imaginary world.

Ms. Chung Urban Assembly Math & Science Grades 9-12

Equity Focus

This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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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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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Perks Of Being A Wallflower • AKJ Books $10.36 14 $145.04
One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich • AKJ Books $10.36 12 $124.32
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings • AKJ Books $5.17 10 $51.70
Water for Elephants • AKJ Books $7.19 10 $71.90

Materials cost

$392.96

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.89

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$433.85

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$76.56

Total project goal

$510.41

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $510.41

1 Donor

-$128.00

Donations toward project cost

-$108.80

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$19.20

Matching donations from our partners

-$382.41

Match offers toward project cost

-$325.05

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$57.36

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