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Mrs. Harting from Millersville, PA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Mrs. Harting's classroom raised $295

Storytelling Drives Compassion

Help me give my students a selection of diverse, high-interest books that will help them take ownership of their reading and the messages they derive from it.

Mrs. Harting Penn Manor High School
Millersville, PA Grades 9-12

My Students

I remember reading Elie Wiesel's Night as a student many moons ago, and my immediate reaction was simple: How could such an atrocity occur? How could the world keep silent during a time of unspeakable hate? My 9th-grade students come to me with the same questions, feeling as though these dark moments in history are isolated events and are even abstract or fictional. I applaud my 9th graders for their mature insights on humanity and believe that sharing additional stories of injustice with them will enrich their understanding of mankind's responsibility to mankind.

What I love about teaching 9th grade is their observance of and receptiveness to hearing another's story.

If we wait too long to have these important conversations with our youngest high school students, we may miss this golden opportunity.

My Project

The books requested will be used to facilitate book clubs in my College Prep 9th Grade Foundations of Literacy class. Students will work in collaborative groups to sample and then select one of these novels to read alongside Elie Wiesel's Night. Since each of these novels explore different ways in which injustices have historically occurred, or how they may/can occur, students will be asked to synthesize what stories of injustice can teach readers about one of the following thematic concepts: community, hope, and dehumanization.

Each day, we will use Night as a mentor text to discover how these themes emerge; each day, students will also work in their groups to complete reading contracts on their selected book, engaging choice activities, and synthesis activities that connect their selected novel to Night.

At the end of the unit, students will write a collaborative essay using textual evidence from both texts on what individuals can learn from reading various stories of injustice.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

More than half of students from low‑income households

75 students impacted 2 donors
Mrs. Harting Penn Manor High School Grades 9-12

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Millersville, PA 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

75 students impacted 2donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Love, Hate and Other Filters • AKJ Education $13.86 5 $69.30
Just Mercy (Adapted for Young Adults) • AKJ Education $13.86 5 $69.30
Between Shades of Gray • AKJ Education $8.75 5 $43.75
When My Name Was Keoko • AKJ Education $5.83 5 $29.15

Materials cost

$211.50

Vendor shipping charges

 $6.00

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.17

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$250.67

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$44.24

Total project goal

$294.91

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $294.91

1 Donor

-$294.91

Donations toward project cost

-$250.67

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$44.24

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