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Ms. Chung from Bronx, NY is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Motivate Reluctant Readers With These Awesome Books!

My students need small sets of high-interest teen books like Ann Aguirre's Outpost, Emmy Laybourne's Monument 14, and Allison Van Diepen's Snitch.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Chung's classroom raised $507

This project is fully funded

Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

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

As a teacher in a 6th-12th grade school in the South Bronx, I have the pleasure of teaching my current sophomores twice, once in middle school and now in high school! With that said, my beloved middle school babies who once loved to read have become reluctant readers as a result of few resources.

As seventh graders, my students were ravenous for books.

Now, as a sophomores, due to poorly funded classroom libraries, they have forgotten what it's like to love to read. I want to remind my babies (because they will always be my babies) how much they loved to read by providing them with some fantastic books. Watching my students grow into young adults has been both poignant and a struggle as I recognize some of their weaknesses in middle school have become ingrained habits. At the same time, some of their strengths have catapulted them into compassionate young women and men who will soon inherit the world. The texts that I have chosen will both inspire and challenge them. They are texts of embarking on great adventures and texts about coming into one's own. They are novels of great sorrow, great joy - they are novels of life.

My Project

My students need a variety of high interest texts that are relatable, motivational, and exciting. Too often English classrooms are relegated to following the canon oftentimes losing students in the old rhetoric. My students deserve to have an opportunity to savor language and life through novels that embody what life is like today not 100 years ago. Currently, my school does not have the funding needed to update classroom texts. The books that we currently have are falling apart and antiquated. There is not enough variety to really encompass the many reading levels of my students and many of my students find themselves either reading a book that is too hard or a book that is too easy. As English teachers, we are stuck teaching the same texts over and over again - texts that continue to go over our students' heads in diction and language. My students deserve to read about characters that seem truly real to them, characters that they see in everyday life.

With your generous donations, you will be able to rekindle in my students their love of reading and, most importantly, a love of books.

Technology is on the verge of driving books into extinction and it has become even more essential for us to remind kids how wonderful it is to hold a book in your hands and to treat it as a dear friend. I have no doubt that your small gift to our classroom will be the catalyst to many life-changing experiences in both the real and imaginary world.

Ms. Chung Urban Assembly Math & Science Grades 9-12

Equity Focus

This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Nearly all 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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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Monument 14 • AKJ Books $12.40 8 $99.20
Birthmarked • AKJ Books $7.29 4 $29.16
Daughter of Smoke and Bone • AKJ Books $13.86 4 $55.44
Outpost • AKJ Books $13.13 5 $65.65
Snitch • AKJ Books $5.83 5 $29.15
My Bloody Life: The Making of a Latin King • AKJ Books $15.26 2 $30.52
The Alchemyst (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel # • AKJ Books $6.56 3 $19.68
Shadow and Bone • AKJ Books $13.13 3 $39.39
The Girl of Fire and Thorns • AKJ Books $13.13 2 $26.26

Materials cost

$394.45

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.92

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$430.37

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$75.95

Total project goal

$506.32

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $506.32

3 Donors

-$506.32

Donations toward project cost

-$430.37

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$75.95

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