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Ms. Luxton from Springfield, MA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Meet an Author, Make a Friend for Life

My students need 63 poetry books by New England authors. These include the works of Edgar Allen Poe, "The Pocket Emily Dickinson," and "Poetry for Young People: Robert Frost." We live in an area of the U.S.with a rich literary history, but without the poetry, students can't make friends for life.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Luxton's classroom raised $983

This project is fully funded

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Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

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

All students should have lives enriched by literature. And, as poets of the twenty-first century, students must see their link to the poets who came before them in order to see themselves as part of the history of New England poetry.

My students are wonderfully creative, intelligent, articulate, but with anything that takes time to reach fruition, they too, need access to literature that all sixth graders should become familiar with.

In order to grow they need poetry; they need the history of poets; they need to see themselves in the continuum of poets that came before them; and to look ahead at the impact they themselves will make as contributors to modern poetry.

My Project

I teach a New England author's unit, as well as a Poetry Unit; I try to intertwine both so that students have the back story of the rich literary world that are so fortunate to be a part of. I've included some non-poetry books in the cart, but Emily Dickinson, Kerouac, Emerson, writers Thoreau and Nathaniel Hawthorne and many more, all lived in New England. I would like for my students to have the resources of these books of poetry in our classroom; these books of poetry will inspire my inner city students to be our poets of the future.

Please help me help these terrific and eager and inquisitive students gain a deeper knowledge of the poetry created in our own region.

You won't be disappointed. These are students who value literature, but don't often have access to the high quality works many suburban kids do. To bridge the achievement gap, to give these kids every opportunity to learn and experience and see poetry as the exciting medium it is, they only need the books in their hands to make this dream a reality.

Ms. Luxton Van Sickle Academy Grades 6-8

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More than three‑quarters 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
Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson • AKJ Books $17.15 1 $17.15
Dickinson • AKJ Books $27.30 1 $27.30
Emily Dickinson • AKJ Books $11.66 1 $11.66
Sylvia • AKJ Books $10.92 1 $10.92
Young Romantics • AKJ Books $21.45 1 $21.45
Days to Celebrate: A Full Year of Poetry, People, Holidays, • AKJ Books $14.81 1 $14.81
Fifty Poems of Emily Dickinson • AKJ Books $13.26 1 $13.26
I&apos • AKJ Books $3.11 1 $3.11
My Letter to the World and Other Poems • AKJ Books $7.76 1 $7.76
The Great Poets • AKJ Books $11.68 1 $11.68
The Pocket Emily Dickinson • AKJ Books $5.42 1 $5.42
Edgar Allen Poe: A Collection of Stories (NU Student Pack) • AKJ Books $10.13 1 $10.13
18 Best Stories by Edgar Allan Poe • AKJ Books $5.45 1 $5.45
Classic Crime Stories • AKJ Books $10.10 1 $10.10
Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe • AKJ Books $19.50 1 $19.50
Edgar A. Poe • AKJ Books $14.81 1 $14.81
Edgar Allan Poe • AKJ Books $7.76 1 $7.76
Poetry for Young People: Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe, Br • AKJ Books $5.42 1 $5.42
Edgar Allan Poe • AKJ Books $11.66 1 $11.66
Edgar Allan Poe • AKJ Books $11.66 1 $11.66
Edgar Allan Poe & the Juke-box • AKJ Books $11.70 1 $11.70
The Beat Generation in New York • AKJ Books $10.10 1 $10.10
When I Was Cool • AKJ Books $10.88 1 $10.88
You''ll Be Okay • AKJ Books $11.66 1 $11.66
Jack of Fables 7 • AKJ Books $11.69 1 $11.69
Jack of Fables 2 • AKJ Books $11.69 1 $11.69
Jack y los Frijoles Magicos / Jack and the Beanstalk • AKJ Books $3.86 1 $3.86
Jack y los frijoles magicos/ Jack and the Beanstalk • AKJ Books $18.71 1 $18.71
The Awakener • AKJ Books $13.22 1 $13.22
21 • AKJ Books $15.56 1 $15.56
21 • AKJ Books $31.20 1 $31.20
Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath Stephanie • AKJ Books $6.23 1 $6.23
Your Own, Sylvia • AKJ Books $14.81 1 $14.81
Sylvia Plath • AKJ Books $33.38 1 $33.38
Ariel • AKJ Books $10.91 1 $10.91
Plath • AKJ Books $10.53 1 $10.53
Don''t Just Do Something, Sit There • AKJ Books $9.36 1 $9.36
Rumble Meets Sylvia And Sally Swan • AKJ Books $15.59 1 $15.59
Poems by Robert Frost • AKJ Books $3.86 1 $3.86
Poetry for Young People: Robert Frost Robert Frost, Gary D. • AKJ Books $11.66 1 $11.66
Poetry for Young People: Robert Frost • AKJ Books $5.42 1 $5.42
Robert Frost in Russia • AKJ Books $10.88 1 $10.88
Robert Frost: Selected Poems • AKJ Books $5.42 1 $5.42
The Best Poems of the English Language • AKJ Books $15.59 1 $15.59
Poetry of Robert Frost Robert Frost, Edward Connery Lathem ( • AKJ Books $17.15 1 $17.15
Robert Frost''s Poems • AKJ Books $4.67 1 $4.67
Robert Frost • AKJ Books $27.30 1 $27.30
A Killing Frost • AKJ Books $10.88 1 $10.88
Poetry for Young People • AKJ Books $11.66 1 $11.66
Poetry for Young People: Animal Poems John Hollander (Editor • AKJ Books $11.66 1 $11.66
Edna St. Vincent Millay • AKJ Books $11.66 1 $11.66
Poetry for Young People • AKJ Books $11.66 1 $11.66
Poetry for Young People • AKJ Books $11.66 1 $11.66
Langston Hughes • AKJ Books $11.66 1 $11.66
Poetry for Young People: Robert Browning Robert Browning, Ei • AKJ Books $11.66 1 $11.66
Poetry for Young People: The Seasons John N. Serio (Editor), • AKJ Books $11.66 1 $11.66
Poetry for Young People • AKJ Books $11.66 1 $11.66
Poetry for Young People • AKJ Books $11.66 1 $11.66
Robert Louis Stevenson • AKJ Books $11.66 1 $11.66
The Sandburg Treasury • AKJ Books $18.72 1 $18.72
Walt Whitman • AKJ Books $11.66 1 $11.66
William Carlos Williams • AKJ Books $11.66 1 $11.66
Poetry from A to Z: A Guide for Young Writers • AKJ Books $13.22 1 $13.22

Materials cost

$788.44

Vendor shipping charges

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Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.83

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$835.27

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$147.40

Total project goal

$982.67

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $982.67

14 Donors

-$491.33

Donations toward project cost

-$417.63

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$73.70

match offer

-$491.34

Match offer toward project cost

-$417.64

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$73.70

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