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Mr. Adams from Salem, OR is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Poetry for Adams' Classroom Library

Help me give my students the poetry to inspire them towards the life the deserve.

FULLY FUNDED! Mr. Adams's classroom raised $996

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 Project

Thank you for helping me build a classroom library. I teach English Language Arts and English Language Development to 9-12 graders at a title 9 school. More than 80% of our students are on free or reduced lunch. These students have very little access to books and my hope as a teacher is that I am able to influence these wonderful people in the most positive way. The school is very diverse and many of my students are migrants and refugees.

Help me help my students.

I teach 12 grade English and hope to build a library of the world's great books. My plan for the library is to introduce my students to books they otherwise would not have interest or opportunity to engage with. I read with a deep unquenchable passion and hope to inspire my students to do the same. I give books talks of the books and set up a system for lending the books. I also use the books for specific assignments at different times throughout the year.

Mr. Adams McKay High School Grades 9-12

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

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Salem, OR View local requests

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

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Walt Whitman: Poetry and Prose (Library of America) • Amazon Business $45.00 1 $45.00
Poems and Prophecies • Amazon Business $33.12 1 $33.12
The Divine Comedy: Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso (Everyman's Library) • Amazon Business $31.50 1 $31.50
Ralph Waldo Emerson : Collected Poems and Translations (Library of America) • Amazon Business $29.99 1 $29.99
The Sonnets and Narrative Poems (Everyman's Library) • Amazon Business $25.00 1 $25.00
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar (Mint Editions (Black Narratives)) • Amazon Business $24.62 1 $24.62
The Complete Poems of John Keats (Modern Library (Hardcover)) • Amazon Business $23.00 1 $23.00
Collected Poems of Jack Gilbert • Amazon Business $22.88 1 $22.88
The Complete English Poems of John Milton: Introduction by Gordon Campbell (Everyman's Library Classics Series) • Amazon Business $22.52 1 $22.52
The Aeneid (Everyman's Library) • Amazon Business $21.20 1 $21.20
Collected Works Of Kahlil Gibran • Amazon Business $20.49 1 $20.49
Dog Songs: Poems • Amazon Business $18.99 1 $18.99
A Thousand Mornings • Amazon Business $18.99 1 $18.99
Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems • Amazon Business $18.00 1 $18.00
First Course In Turbulence (Pitt Poetry Series) • Amazon Business $18.00 1 $18.00
The Great Fires: Poems, 1982-1992 • Amazon Business $18.00 1 $18.00
Wordsworth: Poems: Edited by Peter Washington (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series) • Amazon Business $18.00 1 $18.00
The Hurting Kind • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems • Amazon Business $17.00 1 $17.00
Peace Of Wild Things • Amazon Business $16.40 1 $16.40
Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver • Amazon Business $16.25 1 $16.25
The Carrying: Poems • Amazon Business $16.00 1 $16.00
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
Phillis Wheatley, Complete Writings • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
Sweet Ruin (Brittingham Prize in Poetry) • Amazon Business $15.95 1 $15.95
The Love Poems of Rumi: Translated by Nader Khalili (Volume 2) (Timeless Rumi, 2) • Amazon Business $15.95 1 $15.95
The Friendship Poems of Rumi: Translated by Nader Khalili (Volume 1) (Timeless Rumi, 1) • Amazon Business $15.28 1 $15.28
Refusing Heaven: Poems • Amazon Business $15.05 1 $15.05
The Spiritual Poems of Rumi: Translated by Nader Khalili (Volume 3) (Timeless Rumi, 3) • Amazon Business $14.89 1 $14.89
The Gift • Amazon Business $14.74 1 $14.74
Night Sky with Exit Wounds • Amazon Business $14.27 1 $14.27
The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems • Amazon Business $13.89 1 $13.89
Meditations in an Emergency • Amazon Business $13.59 1 $13.59
Selected Poems of Langston Hughes: A Classic Collection of Poems by a Master of American Verse (Vintage Classics) • Amazon Business $13.20 1 $13.20
Elegy for the Last Male Northern White Rhino: (the Hollyridge Press Chapbook Series) • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction • Amazon Business $12.33 1 $12.33
Wild Iris, The • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
Time Is a Mother • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
Application for Release from the Dream: Poems • Amazon Business $11.80 1 $11.80
Poems 1962-2012 • Amazon Business $10.86 1 $10.86
Bright Dead Things: Poems • Amazon Business $10.49 1 $10.49
Faithful and Virtuous Night • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Home Body • Amazon Business $8.89 1 $8.89
The Sun and Her Flowers • Amazon Business $8.89 1 $8.89
Milk and Honey • Amazon Business $7.83 1 $7.83
Turn Up the Ocean: Poems • Amazon Business $7.69 1 $7.69
Lunch Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets Series) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99

Materials cost

$804.46

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$12.07

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$846.53

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$149.39

Total project goal

$995.92

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$995.92

6 Donors

-$497.96

Donations toward project cost

-$423.27

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$74.69

match offer

-$497.95

Match offer toward project cost

-$423.26

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$74.69

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$0.00

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