Books for My Classroom!

Funded Mar 21, 2023

This project was so impactful for my students and for my teaching practice. In my creative writing class and my English III classes, I implemented First Chapter Fridays. We would read the first chapter of a different book every week and discuss it. Almost every week, students would get into passionate discussions about the text. They felt connected to it because, for the first time for some of them, we were reading stories about people that look like them or came from the same background. They felt seen. I even had students fighting over who would get to take the books home to read the rest for themselves. This made my little English teacher heart so happy. Reading opens doors. I'm so happy that they were able to fall in love with reading as I have.

None of this would have been possible without your generous donations. From the bottom of my heart, thank you so much.”

With gratitude,

Mrs. Carmello