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Mr. Castillo from San Antonio, TX is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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24 Books To Ignite The Love Of Reading In My Students!

My students need 24 book titles from "The Best American Short Stories 2010" to "When I Was Puerto Rican" to help ignite their passion for reading!

  • $279 goal

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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

I have spoken to many of my students and they can only remember one book. To Kill A Mockingbird. They loved that book! They keep asking me to bring in something that we can read that will make them want to read again, so I am here hoping you can help me do this.

My students are the most colorful cast of players I have ever met.

They are endlessly entertaining and genuinely invested in wanting to learn more. This had made my job easier and I in turn want to give them the resources they need so that they can achieve not only the school's goal for them, but their own personal ones as well.

My Project

Texas houses a mixture of students who all seem to want to escape. Part of my charge is to make sure these children go to college and to instill in them the understanding that there is more out there. One of the easiest way to achieve this is through reading. However my students have not yet achieved a love of reading. Some of the still hate it. I want to bring new material to them which will help them find out the simple joy of sitting down with a book. Because I also have a lot of English Language Learner I have selected comics that translate Shakespeare into a more manageable dialect for them. These comic books will help them (and other students as well) preview the texts before we jump into our big Shakespeare unit and prove that reading The Bard's words is not a daunting task.

Early in the year one of my students showed interest in reading a detective story.

I went and bought him a book to read during our Silent Sustained Reading time. When I gave it to him he said, "Wow, I've never held a brand new book before." Help me make sure this never happens again.

Mr. Castillo Edison High School Grades 9-12

Equity Focus

At this school, more than 50% of students are Black, Latino, and/or Native American, and more than 50% come from low-income households. Learn how your donation to this school supports a more equitable education.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

More about Mr. Castillo

San Antonio, TX View local requests

Nearly all 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

160 students impacted 4donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
1984 George Orwell, Erich Fromm (Afterword) • Barnes and Noble $8.54 1 $8.54
Brave New World Aldous Huxley • Barnes and Noble $9.88 1 $9.88
Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel Garc a M rquez, Edith Grossman (Translator) • Barnes and Noble $10.06 1 $10.06
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury • Barnes and Noble $6.30 1 $6.30
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee • Barnes and Noble $6.83 1 $6.83
The House on Mango Street Sandra Cisneros • Barnes and Noble $6.78 1 $6.78
The Graveyard Book Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $3.99 1 $3.99
Rose That Grew from Concrete Tupac Shakur • Barnes and Noble $10.94 1 $10.94
Anthem Ayn Rand • Barnes and Noble $5.37 1 $5.37
When I Was Puerto Rican Esmeralda Santiago • Barnes and Noble $9.66 1 $9.66
Romeo and Juliet (No Fear Shakespeare Graphic Novels) SparkNotes Editors, William Shakespeare, Matt Wiegle (Illustrator), Adapted by Matt Wiegle • Barnes and Noble $8.50 1 $8.50
Hamlet (No Fear Shakespeare Graphic Novels) SparkNotes Editors, William Shakespeare, Neil Babra (Illustrator), Adapted by Neil Babra • Barnes and Noble $8.50 1 $8.50
Macbeth (No Fear Shakespeare Graphic Novels Series) SparkNotes Editors, William Shakespeare, Ken Hoshine (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $8.50 1 $8.50
Much Ado about Nothing (Manga Shakespeare Series) Emma Vieceli (Illustrator), Adapted by Richard Appignanesi, Based On Work by William Shakespeare • Barnes and Noble $7.48 1 $7.48
Othello (Manga Shakespeare Series) Richard Appignanesi, Ryuta Osada (Illustrator), William Shakespeare • Barnes and Noble $8.89 1 $8.89
As You Like It (Manga Shakespeare Series) Richard Appignanesi, Chie Kutsuwada (Illustrator), Based On Work by William Shakespeare • Barnes and Noble $8.89 1 $8.89
The Tempest (Manga Shakespeare Series) Sonia Leong, William Shakespeare, Paul Duffield • Barnes and Noble $8.50 1 $8.50
Shakespeare's Julius Caesar: The Manga Edition Adam Sexton, William Shakespeare, Hyeondo Park • Barnes and Noble $8.54 1 $8.54
Midsummer Night's Dream ((Manga Shakespeare Series)) Kate Brown, Adapted by Richard Appignanesi, Designed by Andy Huckle • Barnes and Noble $8.89 1 $8.89
Pearl Harbor: A Novel of December 8th Newt Gingrich, William R. Forstchen • Barnes and Noble $4.25 1 $4.25
Under the Dome Stephen King • Barnes and Noble $12.72 1 $12.72
Dean Koontz's Frankenstein: City of Night Dean Koontz, Ed Gorman • Barnes and Noble $9.01 1 $9.01
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War Max Brooks • Barnes and Noble $7.62 1 $7.62
The Best American Short Stories 2010 Richard Russo (Editor), Heidi Pitlor (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $10.22 1 $10.22

Materials cost

$198.86

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.98

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$236.84

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$41.80

Total project goal

$278.64

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $278.64

2 Donors

-$97.00

Donations toward project cost

-$82.45

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$14.55

match offer

-$181.64

Match offer toward project cost

-$154.39

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$27.25

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