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Teacher Hawkins from Clarkesville, GA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Poetry Pairs

My students need poetry resources to pair with their musical theme projects.

FULLY FUNDED! Teacher Hawkins's classroom raised $214

This project is fully funded

My Students

"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words." ~Robert Frost One of the great challenges as teachers is to engage students through authentic learning experiences. Our musical theme project serves as a connection between poetry and music.

My students are typical middle school students who love their friends, love their music, and love to learn in new/cool ways.

Like most teens, my students thrive on personal expression and embrace opportunities to identify with others. All of my students have burdens they carry into the classroom with them, and these burdens cannot be separated from their learning experience. This musical theme project (paired with classic poetry) opens the door to communication, empathy, and learning in the classroom in a "language" students can understand.

My Project

As have generations before them, this generation of kids finds commonality in the lyrics, characters, social struggles, and emotion expressed in their music. Through our musical theme project, students analyze their favorite songs and identify the following: universal theme, figurative language, literary devices, symbolism, irony, audience, character development, point of view, tone/mood, and other literary elements. Students then pair their music selection with a classic poem, which they analyze for the previously stated elements as well. This project is not only engaging, but it also provides students with the opportunity to realize that poetry is not a foreign genre to fear. Through their analysis, students begin to realize poetry as an expression of the very same universal and human emotion that they manage in their daily life experiences.

We currently have few books in our library that have classic poetry, and these books do not have illustrations and are intimidating for our students.

Having these illustrated, student friendly poetry books in our classroom would help to make these classic poems both more accessible and more youth friendly.

Teacher Hawkins North Habersham Middle School Grades 6-8

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Clarkesville, GA 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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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Poetry for Young People: Maya Angelou • Amazon $9.28 2 $18.56
Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes • Amazon $8.63 2 $17.26
Poetry for Young People: Walt Whitman • Amazon $6.95 2 $13.90
Poetry for Young People: Edna St. Vincent Millay • Amazon $6.95 2 $13.90
Poetry for Young People: Robert Frost • Amazon $6.95 2 $13.90
Poetry for Young People: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • Amazon $6.95 2 $13.90
Poetry for Young People: Carl Sandburg • Amazon $6.95 2 $13.90
I, Too, Am America • Amazon $13.31 1 $13.31
Poetry for Young People: Edgar Allan Poe • Amazon $11.85 1 $11.85
Poetry for Young People: The Seasons • Amazon $9.54 1 $9.54

Materials cost

$140.02

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $9.66

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.10

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$181.78

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$32.08

Total project goal

$213.86

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $213.86

2 Donors

-$212.09

Donations toward project cost

-$181.78

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$30.31

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$1.77

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