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Mr. Ventimiglia from Bakersfield CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Nonfiction Gems

Help me give my students access to some of these educational, fictional and nonfictional gems that will inspire and instruct them on how to live.

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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 Project

As each day passes, and I spend more time with my students, I notice that they have read very little in their lives. I sense this when they read out loud, I notice it when I read their writing. They will be, in two years, applying to various colleges across the country. It is my duty to prepare them for it. And to instill in them the joy that I have found for reading. I believe my students have not yet had the feeling of being completely immersed in a novel, of being lost inside of it. Of seeing new landscapes from another's point of view and finding that their own vision has been altered forever.

I have the unique honor of giving a very special gift to my students: the lifelong joy of reading.

My students love reading books that they are deeply passionate about. For many, access is the missing piece of the puzzle. They feel disillusioned by the school's library.

I want my classroom to be the ultimate library.

I want my students to stare at my bookshelves that line my walls and think to themselves, "I can't wait to read that next!"

I will incorporate an independent reading project into the curriculum by devoting parts of each week to allow students to read a book that they have chosen for themselves.

This will promote literacy and instill a passion for reading.

Mr. Ventimiglia
Grades 9-12

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary • Amazon Business $14.59 2 $29.18
Stoner (New York Review Books Classics) • Amazon Business $13.99 2 $27.98
The Western: Four Classic Novels of the 1940s & 50s (LOA #331): The Ox-Bow Incident / Shane / The Searchers / Warlock (The Library of America) • Amazon Business $25.80 1 $25.80
John Williams: Collected Novels (LOA #349): Butcher's Crossing / Stoner / Augustus (Library of America, 349) • Amazon Business $25.00 1 $25.00
Ways of Seeing: Based on the BBC Television Series (Penguin Books for Art) • Amazon Business $6.67 3 $20.01
The Age of Wonder: The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty and Terror of Science • Amazon Business $17.49 1 $17.49
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life (Pulitzer Prize Winner) • Amazon Business $14.21 1 $14.21

Materials cost

$159.67

Vendor shipping charges

 $7.98

Sales tax

 $14.61

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.40

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$214.66

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$37.88

Total project goal

$252.54

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