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Ms. Miller from Chicago, IL is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Making Poetry Personal

Help me give my students dynamic and diverse poetry collections for a deep-dive study.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Miller's classroom raised $283

This project is fully funded

My Project

In my AP Literature class, my students have requested to do a poet study in which they read an entire collection by a poet of their choice in small book club groups. These books will be the beginning of a curated collection of poetry collections that will live in our classroom library.

Though my students know that poetry itself is a living thing, they also want to learn from living poets.

We spent our first semester time with poetry studying iconic poetry movements of the past -- now, we want to explore and celebrate the ways in which poets are speaking to our current zeitgeist. My students selected these titles as texts that reflect their identities and will help them explore the intersections of art, history, and justice, and we would love to see these on our shelves!

Ms. Miller Chicago High School for the Arts Grades 9-12

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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More than half 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

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Bright Dead Things: Poems • Amazon Business $10.49 8 $83.92
Electric Arches • Amazon Business $9.59 8 $76.72
Postcolonial Love Poem • Amazon Business $7.69 4 $30.76
The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On • Amazon Business $15.59 1 $15.59

Materials cost

$206.99

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.10

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$240.09

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$42.37

Total project goal

$282.46

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $282.46

3 Donors

-$279.52

Donations toward project cost

-$240.09

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$39.43

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$2.94

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 $0.00

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