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Poetry & Pillows

My students need 20 books of poetry, including "Ego-Tripping and Other Poems for Young People" and "Where the Sidewalk Ends" and 2 beanbag chairs.

Mrs. D.
Grades 9-12

We need to eat, breathe, dream, and live poetry if we are ever to understand it. I teach English as a Second Language (ESL) in a high-need school. My class varies each year, and is always comprised of a mixture of cultures and grades 9-12.

The terse, neat structure of a poem seems to be one of the great stumbling blocks of high school lit classes. Take a haiku: just 17 little syllables can shut a kid down for an entire 40 minute class. While I teach ESL, a lot of what I do is grounded in literature, and aims to prepare students for success in regular English classes. One step I'd like to make towards this goal in the upcoming school year is tackling poetry (or at the very least, my students' fear of it). Our main obstacle is that we have a teeny-tiny (read: one shelf) classroom library which is completely devoid of poetry. I want to create a poetry corner where students can hold anthologies in their hands, study authors, and try their hand at writing their own poetry.

During a recent course in children's literature, I designed an extensive poetry webquest that I would like to implement next year along with the creation of a poetry corner in my room. The combination of these two elements will allow both an in depth examination of poetry as well as the authentic experience of reading and incorporating poetry into one's own life. My vision of a poetry corner is a cozy space in my room where kids can curl up with a book of verse and get lost in it. It will have two bean bag chairs, a variety of titles covering everything from Mother Goose to contemporary young adult poetry, and a "Poem in My Pocket" chart containing short monthly and seasonal poems for the students to enjoy. My project will benefit my students by creating an atmosphere where we can learn to enjoy poetry together on a regular basis, rather than leaving it on a dusty shelf from which it will occasionally be withdrawn, dissected, and returned.

Your support will provide a place in my classroom where students can learn to appreciate and understand poetry in a more functional and authentic way than is typically encouraged in a high school setting. By fostering a love of poetry, I hope that my students will more readily confront it on their own and in other classes.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

8 students impacted 4 donors
Mrs. D. Grades 9-12

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

8 students impacted 4donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Falling Down the Page Georgia Heard (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $13.56 1 $13.56
The Real Mother Goose (Volland Collection) Blanche Fisher Wright (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $7.98 1 $7.98
The Giving Tree Shel Silverstein, Shel Silverstein (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $13.59 1 $13.59
Where the Sidewalk Ends: 30th Anniversary Special Edition Shel Silverstein, Shel Silverstein (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $15.19 1 $15.19
Read a Rhyme, Write a Rhyme Meilo So (Illustrator), Selected by Jack Prelutsky • Barnes and Noble $7.19 1 $7.19
Love That Dog Sharon Creech • Barnes and Noble $5.39 1 $5.39
Dinothesaurus: Prehistoric Poems and Paintings Douglas Florian, Douglas Florian (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $16.19 1 $16.19
Math Attack Joan Horton, Kyrsten Brooker (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $15.25 1 $15.25
Foot in the Mouth: Poems to Speak, Sing and Shout Chris Raschka (Illustrator), Selected by Paul B. Janeczko • Barnes and Noble $16.19 1 $16.19
My People Langston Hughes, Charles R. Smith Jr. (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $16.19 1 $16.19
Bird, Butterfly, Eel James Prosek • Barnes and Noble $15.29 1 $15.29
Hip Hop Speaks to Children: A Celebration of Poetry with a Beat (A Poetry Speaks Experience Series) Nikki Giovanni (Editor), Michele Noiset (Illustrator), Kristen Balouch (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $15.99 1 $15.99
Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening Robert Frost, Susan Jeffers (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $13.59 1 $13.59
19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East Naomi Shihab Nye • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
Harlem: A Poem Walter Dean Myers, Terry Deary, Christopher A. Myers (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $15.25 1 $15.25
What Have You Lost Naomi Shihab Nye, Michael Nye (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $9.89 1 $9.89
Ego-Tripping and Other Poems for Young People Nikki Giovanni, George Ford (Illustrator), Foreword by Virginia Hamilton • Barnes and Noble $9.85 1 $9.85
Space Between Our Footsteps: Poems and Paintings From the Middle East and North Africa Naomi Shihab Nye, Naomi Shihab Nye (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $20.65 1 $20.65
Laughing Out Loud, I Fly: Poems in English and Spanish Juan Felipe Herrera, Karen Barbour (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $15.29 1 $15.29
Returning a Borrowed Tongue Nick Carbo (Editor), Nick Carbc3 (Editor), Nick Carb (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $13.45 1 $13.45
CHAIR BEANBAG ADULT BLUE • ABC School Supply, Inc. $54.99 2 $109.98

Materials cost

$372.24

Vendor shipping charges

 $37.22

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.58

Fulfillment labor & materials

$9.00

Total project cost

$424.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$93.07

Total project goal

$517.07

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $517.07

3 Donors

-$258.51

Donations toward project cost

-$211.98

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$46.53

match offer

-$258.56

Match offer toward project cost

-$212.02

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$46.54

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