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Mr. Overacker from Monroe, LA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Reimagining a High School English Class Using Book Clubs

My students need relevant, highly engaging books for their Book Clubs.

FULLY FUNDED! Mr. Overacker's classroom raised $802

This project is fully funded

My Students

My students want to learn and read, yet society has told them that they are not important enough. In my classroom, reading becomes an experience that teaches my students about the human condition and LIFE! Through reading engaging, relevant YA books, students in my classes discover their significance and how the world works around them. Moreover, reading transports my students and assuages the stigmatic tribulations in today's society while revealing to them why they are unique! Although disenfranchised by others, my students know at the end of the year how magnanimous and intelligent they are!

My Project

Donations will make a difference in my students' learning by impacting students' life! By making a donation, you are placing a book in a student's hand. Research states that the reason that teenagers do not read is because they do not have the access to relevant and entertaining books! By donating to this Donors Choose project, you will be helping a child grow a love for reading. The books and supplies will assist students in completing book club requirements for the 2016-2017 school year; moreover, the selected books are engaging for high school teenagers. The books will transform the way my students navigate their lives since literature teaches students what it means to be human and what it means to be broken or alive in today's world!

Mr. Overacker Wossman High School Grades 9-12

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Monroe, LA View local requests

Nearly all 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

108 students impacted 16donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Dumplin' • Amazon Business $10.58 2 $21.16
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League • Amazon Business $9.87 2 $19.74
Mongrels: A Novel • Amazon Business $17.14 1 $17.14
Staedtler Triplus Fineliner Pens, .3mm, Metal Clad Tip, 20-Pack, Assorted (334SB20BK) • Amazon Business $16.80 1 $16.80
Jazz Day: The Making of a Famous Photograph • Amazon Business $14.31 1 $14.31
Golden Boys • Amazon Business $13.90 1 $13.90
Side Effects May Vary • Amazon Business $6.48 2 $12.96
When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks It Down • Amazon Business $12.67 1 $12.67
Great Falls • Amazon Business $12.46 1 $12.46
Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter • Amazon Business $12.39 1 $12.39
Shrunken Treasures: Literary Classics, Short, Sweet, and Silly • Amazon Business $12.02 1 $12.02
Read Me Like a Book • Amazon Business $11.95 1 $11.95
Assata: An Autobiography • Amazon Business $11.84 1 $11.84
Burn Baby Burn • Amazon Business $11.38 1 $11.38
This Is Where It Ends • Amazon Business $11.35 1 $11.35
The Unexpected Everything • Amazon Business $11.06 1 $11.06
The Art of Being Normal: A Novel • Amazon Business $10.94 1 $10.94
When We Collided • Amazon Business $10.69 1 $10.69
Every Exquisite Thing • Amazon Business $10.58 1 $10.58
Shadowshaper • Amazon Business $10.58 1 $10.58
The Serpent King • Amazon Business $10.58 1 $10.58
If I Was Your Girl • Amazon Business $10.58 1 $10.58
Wink Poppy Midnight • Amazon Business $10.58 1 $10.58
Exit, Pursued by a Bear • Amazon Business $10.58 1 $10.58
The First Time She Drowned • Amazon Business $10.58 1 $10.58
The Program • Amazon Business $10.46 1 $10.46
Carrying Albert Home: The Somewhat True Story of a Man, His Wife, and Her Alligator • Amazon Business $10.38 1 $10.38
Hour of the Bees • Amazon Business $10.36 1 $10.36
Rocket Boys (The Coalwood Series #1) • Amazon Business $10.36 1 $10.36
This Savage Song (Monsters of Verity) • Amazon Business $10.36 1 $10.36
The Living • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Buck: A Memoir • Amazon Business $9.96 1 $9.96
Drama High: No Mercy (Volume 16) • Amazon Business $9.95 1 $9.95
Drama High: Street Soldiers (Volume 15) • Amazon Business $9.95 1 $9.95
Drama High, vol. 17: Sweet Dreams (Volume 17) • Amazon Business $9.95 1 $9.95
The Way I Used to Be • Amazon Business $9.89 1 $9.89
The Girl on the Train: A Novel • Amazon Business $9.89 1 $9.89
Zeitoun • Amazon Business $9.65 1 $9.65
Everything I Never Told You • Amazon Business $9.52 1 $9.52
Last Stop on Market Street • Amazon Business $9.49 1 $9.49
Red Queen • Amazon Business $8.79 1 $8.79
Challenger Deep • Amazon Business $4.39 2 $8.78
The List • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Since You've Been Gone • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Midnight Taxi Tango: A Bone Street Rumba Novel • Amazon Business $7.74 1 $7.74
The Beginning of Everything • Amazon Business $7.66 1 $7.66
Mexican WhiteBoy • Amazon Business $7.32 1 $7.32
The Treatment (Program) • Amazon Business $7.31 1 $7.31
Whoreson • Amazon Business $7.19 1 $7.19
The First Part Last • Amazon Business $7.05 1 $7.05
Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans • Amazon Business $6.70 1 $6.70
Second Chance Summer • Amazon Business $6.70 1 $6.70
To All the Boys I've Loved Before • Amazon Business $6.70 1 $6.70
We Were Here • Amazon Business $6.48 1 $6.48
A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story • Amazon Business $6.26 1 $6.26
The Running Dream (Schneider Family Book Award - Teen Book Winner) • Amazon Business $5.64 1 $5.64
Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two • Amazon Business $5.08 1 $5.08

Materials cost

$590.36

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $51.66

3rd party payment processing fee

$8.86

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$680.88

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$120.16

Total project goal

$801.04

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $801.04

14 Donors

-$758.39

Donations toward project cost

-$659.63

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$98.76

match offer

-$25.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$21.25

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$3.75

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$17.65

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