Help me give my students access to quality young adult novels and classic literature, including stories with STEM tie-ins, such as Bomb: The Race to Build and Steal the World's Most Dangerous Weapon and Frankenstein.
Our school serves students K-9, and I teach about 140 energetic, enthusiastic junior high students. Due to our small-sized junior high school, the students and teachers get to know each other very well over the three-year span that our students learn from seventh to ninth grade. It's a privilege to get to teach the same student for three years in a row and compare his/her growth as a reader and writer from the beginning of seventh grade to the end of ninth grade.
It's a uniquely rewarding and challenging experience teaching junior high students with the added responsibility of preparing them for high school.
My students will filter into four different high schools, so I catch them as they progress from the close-quartered small school (where they know everyone's name) to a variety of large, competitive high schools where they are one among 2,000 or more students.
My Project
This year our seventh grade class increased 25% in size! We are excited our school is growing, but it also means that my classroom library is no longer large enough for all of my readers to each have their own book in their hands. I am asking for more copies of "Bomb: The Race to Build and Steal the World's Most Dangerous Weapon" and "A Christmas Carol" so that I have enough copies for all of my students.
Relatable characters, fantastic plots, and unexplored settings draw adolescent teenagers into books.
I want to encourage my students to read by providing them access to a variety of young adult novels, nonfiction books, and classic literature on my classroom bookshelves.
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