My students need one full class set (37 copies) of the novel, The Wave, and the accompanying DVD.
FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Wilmot's classroom raised $398
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.
My Students
"Disregard for the past will never do us any good. Without it we cannot know truly who we are." - Syd Moore
Our students are primarily low-income, high-risk students with very limited exposure to reading and literature in general.
As teachers, we find that in order to reach out students, we have to provide an enormous amount of background knowledge and find highly engaging materials. We know that if we do this, we can get out students to meet high expectations and take their learning to deep, meaningful levels.
My Project
Teaching the whys of events like the Holocaust come far more easily than the hows in terms of how an entire society can sit back and let this happen - how this can happen again if people aren't careful - how we must know ourselves and what we stand for in our world. The Wave illustrates how one teacher and one high school learned these lessons together in a scary social experiment meant to mimic the power of Hitler and the quiet complacency of Germans.
Through this novel, we will continue the lessons our students will do in their Social Studies classes about government structures, the events leading up to WWII, and the Holocaust. In addition, we will incorporate all of our ELA reading, writing, and speaking/listening standards to engage in philosophical chairs, Socratic seminars, and writing activities surrounding the ideas in this book. We would love to round out the unit by showing the accompanying movie in order to read our visual learners.
This project will make the Holocaust not just interesting but relevant.
It will show our students that the same methodologies used to gain acceptance of the persecution of an entire people can be applied today, tomorrow, or any point in time. By showing relevance, students become highly engaged participants in their learning.
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
DonorsChoose is the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.
As a teacher-founded nonprofit, we're trusted by thousands of teachers and supporters across the country. This classroom request for funding was created by Mrs. Wilmot and reviewed by the DonorsChoose team.
