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Upping Our Empathy Superpowers Through Reading
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My Students
My 7th graders are full of life, creativity, and joy. They come to class every day ready to be challenged, to explore new ideas, and to better understand themselves and their place in the world. Fortunately, books are our avenue to do just that. As their English Language Arts teacher, I have the privilege of exposing my students to literature that (hopefully) inspires them, and gets them curious about their world. One great story is all it takes to hook a kid on reading.
My Project
Empathy: the ability to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within that other person's frame of reference.
How do we help to cultivate this in our young people?
By reading other people's stories.
I would like for my students to have access to a variety of carefully chosen books that help them expand their empathy for others. How else might they develop compassion for child soldiers? or refugees fleeing unimaginable violence? or a young boy with Asperger Syndrome? This project will help me enhance my growing classroom library (made possible by past donations from donorschoose!) with stories of people from countless walks of life.
This classroom project was brought to life by The First Million Fund
and 11 other donors.
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Materials
Cost
Quantity
Total
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
• Amazon Business
$12.85
2
$25.70
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
• Amazon Business
$11.19
2
$22.38
Ayesha Dean- The Istanbul Intrigue
• Amazon Business
$10.99
2
$21.98
The Spiderwick Chronicles: The Complete Series
• Amazon Business
$21.79
1
$21.79
Amina's Voice
• Amazon Business
$9.37
2
$18.74
Love, Hate and Other Filters
• Amazon Business
$14.59
1
$14.59
Furthermore
• Amazon Business
$6.81
2
$13.62
An Ember in the Ashes
• Amazon Business
$12.39
1
$12.39
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
• Amazon Business
$12.32
1
$12.32
Turtles All the Way Down
• Amazon Business
$11.97
1
$11.97
See You in the Cosmos
• Amazon Business
$11.89
1
$11.89
Stef Soto, Taco Queen
• Amazon Business
$11.89
1
$11.89
The Bluest Eye (Vintage International)
• Amazon Business
$11.45
1
$11.45
Native Son (Perennial Classics)
• Amazon Business
$10.87
1
$10.87
The First Rule of Punk
• Amazon Business
$10.66
1
$10.66
The Book Thief
• Amazon Business
$10.39
1
$10.39
Solo (Blink)
• Amazon Business
$10.35
1
$10.35
The Crossover
• Amazon Business
$10.29
1
$10.29
The Hate U Give
• Amazon Business
$10.25
1
$10.25
Frazzled #2: Ordinary Mishaps and Inevitable Catastrophes
• Amazon Business
$10.09
1
$10.09
Lily Renee, Escape Artist: From Holocaust Survivor to Comic Book Pioneer
• Amazon Business
$9.97
1
$9.97
A Torch Against the Night (An Ember in the Ashes)
• Amazon Business
$9.58
1
$9.58
Written in the Stars
• Amazon Business
$9.21
1
$9.21
Marley Dias Gets It Done: And So Can You!
• Amazon Business
$8.68
1
$8.68
Frazzled: Everyday Disasters and Impending Doom
• Amazon Business
$8.08
1
$8.08
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
• Amazon Business
$7.98
1
$7.98
How It Went Down
• Amazon Business
$6.98
1
$6.98
Monster
• Amazon Business
$3.38
2
$6.76
The Field Guide (The Spiderwick Chronicles)
• Amazon Business
$6.63
1
$6.63
All American Boys
• Amazon Business
$6.37
1
$6.37
One Crazy Summer
• Amazon Business
$5.59
1
$5.59
When I Was Puerto Rican: A Memoir (A Merloyd Lawrence Book)
• Amazon Business
$4.79
1
$4.79
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
• Amazon Business
$4.58
1
$4.58
The Souls of Black Folk (Dover Thrift Editions)
• Amazon Business
$3.05
1
$3.05
Materials cost
$381.86
Vendor shipping charges
FREE
Sales tax
$0.00
3rd party payment processing fee
$5.73
Fulfillment labor & materials
$30.00
Total project cost
$417.59
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
$73.69
Total project goal
$491.28
How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal
$491.28
-$466.28
Donations toward project cost
-$396.34
Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
-$69.94
-$25.00
Match offer toward project cost
-$21.25
Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
-$3.75
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