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Ms. Prost from Chicago IL is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Relevant Literacy Helps Create Leaders!

My students need need these 2 current titles so they can truly understand what amazing literature dealing with real-life issues really is!

  • $555 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Celebrate Black Teachers and Students

This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.

My Students

My middle school students are the absolute best! They come to school daily ready to tackle, challenge, and explore. Although they come from all different walks of life, their commonality is in their love for learning. They all hold one another to the highest standards. Newberry is located in Lincoln Park community, however, the majority of my students are bussed from all around the City of Chicago. They know that as an educator, I always have my students best interest in mind. Although we have limited access to current novels, I challenge my students to always seek out opportunities and never let the notion of limited access obtaining materials hold them back! The majority of my students learn better with actual paper novels, in which they can annotate and physically hold versus electronic copies.

My Project

These materials are crucial to my students reading, writing, listening and speaking opportunities within the classroom and beyond. My students need literature that deals with real-world ideas, themes, and outcomes. These important issues need to be addressed! We need authentic literature in our classroom. Both of these titles will assist in bringing reality into the classroom and we will have open discussions that will assist in student understanding. Fortunately, I was able to secure 20 copies of each novel. However, 20 copies means that several of my students would be without copies. This is not an ideal situation for middle schoolers. By helping with this project, my students will each have a copy of these novels to use in class, so they can read to learn and truly understand at their own pace. This will improve their learning, and motivation as well. They will feel empowered and powerful because they can effectively contribute to our deep classroom conversations.

Ms. Prost
Grades 6-8

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Best We Could Do • AKJ Education $18.21 15 $273.15
The Hate U Give • AKJ Education $10.78 15 $161.70

Materials cost

$434.85

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.52

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$471.37

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$83.18

Total project goal

$554.55

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $554.55

6 Donors

-$554.55

Donations toward project cost

-$471.37

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$83.18

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