My students need 45 copies of Go Ask Alice to read something of high interest and they can connect to.
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My Students
"Miss, can we please read something interesting!" is the common complaint from many of my students, especially the low level readers. Go Ask Alice is a novel students connect to and love to read, to the point where copies have been stolen in the past by the very students who say they hate to read!
My students are low level to mid level readers who struggle with the required readings on all levels, making it harder for them to grasp the literary concepts needed to pass the English regent.
When they can connect to a book, their eyes light up, they read ahead, and some who have never read a book in their life are finishing the book weeks ahead of the class. Go Ask Alice is that book my students connect to. Our school is a high poverty school which struggles to get the supplies needed to support the classroom and with copies of Go Ask Alice being stolen last year we are down to a few copies, not enough to teach five classes. My students have the potential to move forward as readers, and I have found a novel that will get them there, but I need more copies.
My Project
Go Ask Alice is the diary of a drug addicted teenager. The students I teach have had issues with drugs, either personally or in their family, crime, prison, and many other problems that affect their ability to develop as learners. When reading Go Ask Alice, students can express themselves, relate to the problems she has, and a world opens up to them because they feel they are not alone. Reluctant writers want to write pages in response to what we read in class, and some have begun their own journals. Students who have battled with me over the required readings are sneaking the books home to read on their own, and students who claim they never read a book in their life want to know if there is a sequel. Students are not only able to make personal connections, but suddenly grasp literary concepts that have eluded them because the novel is written in a language they understand and are able to use for the critical lens section of the English regent.
My students come to me with problems and damages that can not be fixed in a classroom.
Go Ask Alice offers them a novel they can relate to and through this book explore other possibilities that may exist. Just as the character tries to change for the better, so too can they. The fights and struggles the character goes through are what my students face, sometimes on a daily basis, and this novel is a way to reach and connect to them.
More than three‑quarters of students from low‑income households
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