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
Our high school has a population of about 1600 kids that come from two feeder middle schools. Like students of most schools, my students have a wide range of talents, interests, and abilities. I teach both 10th grade English and 10th-grade honors English with Lexile scores differing by hundreds of points.
I want my kids to read; I want them to read every day, and I want them to WANT to read!
We all know that can be a challenge, so I am incorporating individual, student-choice reading assignments into all my classes next year. I am very excited to give my students an opportunity to embrace reading and learn to love it. It is my desire that by incorporating this reading plan, students will see an increase in their Lexile scores and carry a passion for books with them when they leave me.
My Project
I am filling my classroom library with a wide variety of genres and topics so students will have many titles to pull from for their reading. I have chosen works from The Great American Read, from YALSA award winner lists, from modern reading lists, and from the cherished classics. I have even included Popular: Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek written by Statesboro High Student Maya Van Wagenen!
These titles are works my students will embrace; hopefully, they will find that literature can change the way they view the world, each other and themselves.
When reading becomes a habit for students, their achievement increases in every area and their passion for reading is developed.
Please help me to fund my classroom library! We all thank you!
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