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Mrs. McGill from Snellville GA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Literacy and Language

Help me give my students books in Spanish that will assist them with literacy strategies that cross the borders of translation! Books of all types help us learn information in both languages using topics of their own interest!

  • $606 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Celebrate Black Teachers and Students

This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.

My Students

I have the opportunity to teach students that inspire me to be a better teacher every day. My students are full of vibrant energy and curious about the world around them, but they are very limited in their ability to explore it. While the majority of my students have the desire to continue to post-secondary education, many of them do not understand the competitive nature of that step. I want to help prepare them for the world that they will enter after high school, whether what they find is college or a career.

We are a very unique student population of 67% free/reduced-priced lunch and 96% minority; we are fighters, learning the importance of education when we come from mostly working class.

This, in itself, shows that our community is persistent and that we will overcome the obstacles put in front of us, but only if the necessity of education is instilled properly!

My Project

I am going to use literacy skills that will transcend language and assist in learning how to understand what you are reading! I want to employ literacy strategies in Spanish that link clearly to literacy skills in any language to ultimately equip students with abilities that have passed them by in previous years or that will help them surpass the expected current level.

Because I am teaching literacy in a new language, we can use pre-reading strategies, during-reading activities, and post-reading work to make sure that students gain problem-solving skills that link words, helping them enhance their lexicons, read with less effort, comprehend everything they encounter, as well as produce language of increasingly higher levels!

I can employ these strategies best with a variety of books so that students can choose something of personal interest to them.

Mrs. McGill
Grades 9-12

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
La Casa en Mango Street • Amazon Business $9.84 2 $19.68
El mensaje (Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $7.95 2 $15.90
Yo no soy tu perfecta hija mexicana (Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $7.69 2 $15.38
Una arruga en el tiempo / A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic (Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $15.30 1 $15.30
Hermanas (Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $12.83 1 $12.83
Sonrie! (Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $12.23 1 $12.23
El libro de los americanos desconocidos / The Book of Unknown Americans (Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $12.21 1 $12.21
Casi una mujer • Amazon Business $11.69 1 $11.69
Cuando Era Puertorriquexf1a (Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $11.64 1 $11.64
El odio que das (Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $11.59 1 $11.59
xbfQuixe9n fue la Madre Teresa? (Quien Fue...? / Who Was...?) (Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
En el paxeds que amamos: Mi familia dividida (Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $10.72 1 $10.72
Wonder: La leccixf3n de August / Wonder (Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $10.23 1 $10.23
Fantasmas (Ghosts) (Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $9.39 1 $9.39
xbfQuixe9n es Malala Yousafzai?/ Who is Malala Yousafzai? (xbfquixe9n Fue? / Who Was?) (Spanish Edition) (Quien Fue? / Who Was?) • Amazon Business $9.31 1 $9.31
xbfQuixe9n fue Rosa Parks? (Quien Fue...? / Who Was...?) (Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $9.28 1 $9.28
xbfQuixe9n fue Roberto Clemente? (Spanish Edition) (Quien Fue? / Who Was?) • Amazon Business $9.28 1 $9.28
xbfQuixe9n fue Nelson Mandela? (Quien Fue...? / Who Was...?) (Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $9.27 1 $9.27
El El soxf1ador (The Dreamer): (Spanish language edition of The Dreamer) (Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Charlie y la fxe1brica de chocolate / Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Roald Dalh Colecction) (Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $8.59 1 $8.59
EL CAMINO DEL CAFxc9 (Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $8.50 1 $8.50
Wonder: La historia de Julixe1n / The Julian Chapter: A Wonder Story (Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $8.08 1 $8.08
RIGO (Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $8.00 1 $8.00
Las sombras: Corre y no mires atras (Las apariencias enga?an) (Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $8.00 1 $8.00
Los Sobrevivientes (Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $8.00 1 $8.00
Bajo el Agua • Amazon Business $8.00 1 $8.00
El Escape: Casi me mata el celular (Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $7.95 1 $7.95
La clase de confesiones: Carlos hace el peor error de su vida (Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $7.95 1 $7.95
La chica nueva (Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $7.95 1 $7.95
Quince (Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $7.95 1 $7.95
Caras vemos (Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $7.95 1 $7.95
La Bella Mentira: La clase de confesiones 2 (Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $7.95 1 $7.95
Feliz Cumpleaxf1os: "El Partido" (Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $7.95 1 $7.95
La mochila (Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $7.95 1 $7.95
Secretos (Spanish Edition) [Paperback] Degenhardt, Jennifer and Digital, Voces [Paperback] Degenhardt, Jennifer and Digital, Voces • Amazon Business $7.95 1 $7.95
Los tres amigos (Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $7.95 1 $7.95
xbfQuixe9n fue Pablo Picasso? (Who Was...?) (Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $7.85 1 $7.85
Telaraxf1a de Carlota: Charlotte's Web (Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $7.85 1 $7.85
Antes de ser libres (Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $7.57 1 $7.57
xbfQuixe9n fue Martin Luther King, Jr.? (Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $7.51 1 $7.51
El xdaltimo Viaje: A Comprehensible Input Novella (Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $7.50 1 $7.50
La madre perfecta: A language-learning novella (Spanish Edition) [Paperback] Emery, Rachel; Digital, Voces and Arpin-Cortez, Julian [Paperback] Emery, Rachel; Digital, Voces and Arpin-Cortez, Julian • Amazon Business $7.00 1 $7.00
Bilingxfce (Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $7.00 1 $7.00
Ahorita (Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $7.00 1 $7.00
El color de mis palabras (Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
La Novia Perfecta (Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $6.00 1 $6.00
Drama (Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Who Was Frida Kahlo? • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99

Materials cost

$446.83

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$30.83

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.70

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$514.36

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$90.77

Total project goal

$605.13

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$605.13

1 Donor

-$605.13

Donations toward project cost

-$514.36

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$90.77

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$0.00

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