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Mr. Harshman from Saint Louis, MO is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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My Students Are Yearning For Yates!

Help me give my students some books by Richard Yates that they desperately want to read!

  • $180 goal

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My Project

My AP Literature students are embarking on a unit on modern American short fiction. One of the authors we are reading is Richard Yates and he has piqued my students' interest to the point where they want to read more of him.

Let me just repeat that: my AP Literature students (students in an urban public school) just got done reading and analyzing Richard Yates... and they LOVED IT!

They got the existentialism, the Marxism, the achingly real human drama!

They understood everything Yates might have wanted them to get out of the book.

With these books, I will be distributing them to my AP Literature class and they will be reading these books in their free time and giving me informal reports as they progress and (eventually) finish these books.

It is my hope that these books will not only prepare my students fully for college but also get them so prepared that their college English classes will be effortless.

Additionally, I just love that my students are becoming such worldly, cultured, and sophisticated young readers and learners! I love that they are connecting with an author from half a century ago, who comes from a culture and era so vastly removed from their own, and yet all they care about are the living, breathing characters and the engaging stories of their lives.

Seriously, times like these are the reason why teachers get up in the morning!

Mr. Harshman Hazelwood East High School Grades 9-12

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

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At this school, more than 50% of students are Black, Latino, and/or Native American, and more than 50% come from low-income households. Learn how your donation to this school supports a more equitable education.

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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Where Your Donation Goes

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Young Hearts Crying (Vintage Contemporaries) • Amazon Business $17.00 1 $17.00
The Collected Stories of Richard Yates: Short Fiction from the author of Revolutionary Road • Amazon Business $16.66 1 $16.66
Disturbing the Peace: A Novel • Amazon Business $16.32 1 $16.32
A Special Providence (Vintage Contemporaries) • Amazon Business $16.00 1 $16.00
A Good School: A Novel • Amazon Business $14.39 1 $14.39
Cold Spring Harbor: A Novel • Amazon Business $14.22 1 $14.22
The Easter Parade: A Novel • Amazon Business $13.99 1 $13.99
Revolutionary Road • Amazon Business $12.60 1 $12.60

Materials cost

$121.18

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.82

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$153.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$27.00

Total project goal

$180.00

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $180.00

1 Donor

-$180.00

Donations toward project cost

-$153.00

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$27.00

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 $0.00

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