My students need this book, The Road by Cormac McCarthy, since the district will not buy it for the school, and the students cannot afford their own copies.
$1,058 goal
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month
This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
I have the greatest pleasure teaching at the school that I work at and working with the amazing group of students that I have. A majority of students come from lower socioeconomic homes, but that does not hinder their intelligence and creativity. The students here are compassionate, bright, eager and motivated to learn, and have so many unique, individual skills that make me so excited for them to enter the real world! We focus on real world issues in the classroom and relevant texts to spark their interest for reading.
A lot of my students do not have parents who are present in their lives, to motivate them, or be a stable support group.
This does not stop our students from finding outlets to keep them out of trouble when they are not in school and to find ways to make their neighborhood a better place. There are murals that have been painted over graffiti, and students who have started clubs outside of the school day to occupy them on their days away from campus. These students are eager to learn! The only thing missing are supplies.
My Project
My first year of teaching, I was forced to teach a novel that the students hated. They were bored, and, in return, they did not do so well on the exam that catered to the novel. The next year, I changed the book to The Road by Cormac McCarthy. The success that I had was mind blowing! The students were so drawn in! They would rush to class begging to read and then would moan with disappointment when the bell rang. They love this book, and my former students always come back and ask if this year's class will get to read it as well. The district I work for refuses to buy new books, because they believe teachers should teach what is available. I believe that we need to reach our students, especially those who hate reading, by finding modern, young adult literature, that appeals to their interests and keeps them engaged. The Road is a post-apocalyptic book set in a barren, destroyed America. The main characters are a father and his son as they travel America, trying to survive when humanity is gone. The characters remain nameless and descriptive-less which allows students to connect to the novel more, since they can picture who they see as the father and the son. The themes focus around keeping humanity and hope alive, especially when that is no longer the case for many of the characters present in the book.
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