Past projects 2
Bring Persepolis to Sophomores!
Funded Jul 23, 2015Your donation made a huge difference in the learning and lives of our students. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts for this wonderful gift. Having the graphic novel "Persepolis" read in the classroom completely transformed the reading experience for our students and helped understand the shift in cultural lens as we learned together about the life of Marjane in Iran, as well as the history of the country and the many complex political and religious implications it had on its people and culture. Many many thanks to you for helping us enjoy and learn from this experience.”
With gratitude,
Ms. Palenyy
Bring No Fear Shakespeare to HJHS!
Funded Dec 2, 2014Thank you so much for your contribution to our classroom. My students have benefited greatly from your generous donation. We have been able to not only read the play together, but to act out the reading in a comprehensible and relevant way. Over 90 students were impacted by your generous gift. The books have helped us understand the complicated language and be able to discuss the generous themes of the play with no characteristic concerns of reading a Shakespeare text with high school students, many of whom reading Elizabethan English for the first time. My students were pleasantly surprised that they had the capacity to have in-depth conversations about a text they believed to be far from reach academically and intellectually. They found that the text was even relevant to their own lives, and were able to discuss the rich details of the story because of the easy translation of the text on every page. We have used this book for the reading, re-enactment of the play, as well as rich discussion and writing of an expository essay using evidence from the text, arguing for or against the character of Caesar. Many of my students have been able to enjoy the story, and all of them wrote about their position on the prompt, using the resources of the book to find the evidence they needed to support their writing. They were able to learn to use critical thinking in not only the reading and discussion, but in using this evidence to write an essay on the reading. All of this was possible thanks to you.”
With gratitude,
Ms. Palenyy
This classroom project was brought to life by Kia and 3 other donors.