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Science Fiction Library: Visions and Revisions of the Future

Help me give my students a rich and diverse library of science fiction literature by both the old masters and the new.

FULLY FUNDED! Mr. West's classroom raised $591

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My Students

Most seniors will move on from the halls of our inner city campus to attend a two or four year college. These students are likely to be an immigrant or the child of an immigrant, and the first person in their family to attend college. Though they have worked hard and strove to achieve, most of them will have not read enough to prepare them for the rigors they will face in the coming year.

I want my students to love reading!

I want them to make the connections between ideas and themes of literature to the world they are confronted with. My ambition is to improve students' fluency and stamina in reading by providing numerous high-interest, complex, and challenging texts. Through close reading, analysis, comparison, and synthesis, my students will have some familiarity with the rigors they are soon to face in their college classes.

I have a wonderful textbook for this class, but I want to build a library that students can use as a resource to explore more novels than we can get to in class. Help me expand their Science Fiction universe!

My Project

Students need long and complex texts to improve their reading literacy and fluency. Apart from the stories in our great anthology, students are assigned an Independent Reading Project in which they select any science fiction novel that interests them. Students complete a number of assessments throughout the assignment to help focus and engage their reading: they compose weekly journal entries, prepare and present a "book talk" for their peers, and they compose a formal analysis of one of the themes present in their novel.

Students in the Science Fiction Literature course need a library of mind expanding and engaging books from a variety of authors to help accomplish their reading goals.

Science Fiction has expanded tremendously over the last couple of decades; voices previously absent are starting to make a serious impact in the world of speculative fiction. Young people need to hear these voices. This library is a good start.

Mr. West George Washington High School Grades 9-12

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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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
Wayfarers Series 4 Books Collection Set by Becky Chambers (The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, A Closed and Common Orbit, Record of a Spaceborn Few & To Be Taught, If Fortunate) • Amazon Business $35.99 1 $35.99
MADDADDAM TRILOGY BOX: Oryx & Crake; The Year of the Flood; Maddaddam • Amazon Business $35.49 1 $35.49
Southern Reach Trilogy 3 Books Collection Set By Jeff VanderMeer (Annihilation, Authority, Acceptance) • Amazon Business $34.99 1 $34.99
The Power • Amazon Business $14.49 2 $28.98
The Expanse Boxed Set: Leviathan Wakes, Caliban's War and Abaddon's Gate • Amazon Business $28.69 1 $28.69
The Midnight Library: A Novel • Amazon Business $19.93 1 $19.93
The Windup Girl • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
The Fat Years • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
The Ministry for the Future: A Novel • Amazon Business $15.49 1 $15.49
I, Robot • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
Snow Crash • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
Rosewater (The Wormwood Trilogy, 1) • Amazon Business $14.59 1 $14.59
Cryptonomicon • Amazon Business $13.99 1 $13.99
The Time Traveler's Wife • Amazon Business $13.79 1 $13.79
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?: The inspiration for the films Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049 • Amazon Business $13.61 1 $13.61
Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 1) • Amazon Business $12.01 1 $12.01
The Last Policeman: A Novel (The Last Policeman Trilogy) • Amazon Business $11.59 1 $11.59
Stories of Your Life and Others • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
The Children of Men • Amazon Business $10.76 1 $10.76
The Man in the High Castle • Amazon Business $10.59 1 $10.59
Kindred • Amazon Business $10.49 1 $10.49
Station Eleven • Amazon Business $10.23 1 $10.23
The Martian Chronicles • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
I Am Legend • Amazon Business $7.04 1 $7.04
Foundation • Amazon Business $6.79 1 $6.79

Materials cost

$415.98

Vendor shipping charges

 $11.95

Sales tax

 $38.06

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.24

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$502.23

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$88.63

Total project goal

$590.86

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $590.86

6 Donors

-$463.91

Donations toward project cost

-$394.32

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$69.59

Matching donations from our partners

-$126.95

Match offers toward project cost

-$107.91

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$19.04

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