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Mrs. Agostino from Danville, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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A Classroom as a Reading Community

My students need new, exciting books to add to our classroom library.

  • $719 goal

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My Students

Most of my students are high achieving and highly motivated. They do their reading and their homework with the hopes of earning entrance into a four year college. They care greatly about getting good grades, but sometimes lose sight of their love of learning in the process. More specifically, many of them have lost their love of reading. They view reading as a boring chore, one that they do begrudgingly, or even worse, don't do at all. I believe my students need more choice in what they read and study, to entice them to be lifelong readers and learners.

In our high performing community, our students "do school," but often miss out on meaningful learning.

They crave choice and independence in their learning. Also, as in any classroom, I have a huge range of reading abilities. By giving them choice, I can better differentiate instruction and use reading conferences to make sure each student has a book that works for him or her.

My Project

My classroom library has been slowly growing over the past few years, and it's time to add some more exciting texts to the room. My students are looking for books that will hook them and keep them reading beyond the required class time. Having these books right as their fingertips encourages them to start a new book as soon as they finish one, so they never lose reading momentum.

Our classroom is a place where everyone reads, every day.

We also share our books with each other, through informal share outs, formal book talks, and all sorts of other speaking and writing based activities. We are a community of readers, and my students would love some new, fresh books to keep them going.

Mrs. Agostino San Ramon Valley High School Grades 9-12

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Danville, CA View local requests 150 students impacted 2donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Into the Water: A Novel • Amazon Business $18.32 1 $18.32
If There's No Tomorrow • Amazon Business $17.09 1 $17.09
All the Ugly and Wonderful Things: A Novel • Amazon Business $17.01 1 $17.01
The Good Daughter: A Novel • Amazon Business $16.79 1 $16.79
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis • Amazon Business $16.79 1 $16.79
Genuine Fraud • Amazon Business $15.19 1 $15.19
The Settlers (The Movement Trilogy) (Volume 1) • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
The Man Who Ended the World • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
King's Cage (Red Queen) • Amazon Business $13.98 1 $13.98
Symptoms of Being Human • Amazon Business $13.59 1 $13.59
They Both Die at the End • Amazon Business $12.36 1 $12.36
A Thousand Boy Kisses • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
Turtles All the Way Down • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
Mr. Mercedes: A Novel (The Bill Hodges Trilogy) • Amazon Business $11.61 1 $11.61
If I Was Your Girl • Amazon Business $11.61 1 $11.61
Finders Keepers: A Novel (The Bill Hodges Trilogy) • Amazon Business $11.59 1 $11.59
End of Watch: A Novel (The Bill Hodges Trilogy) • Amazon Business $11.59 1 $11.59
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything • Amazon Business $11.55 1 $11.55
The Light Between Oceans • Amazon Business $11.39 1 $11.39
The Girls: A Novel • Amazon Business $11.21 1 $11.21
Lily and the Octopus • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Lab Girl • Amazon Business $10.87 1 $10.87
The Wonder • Amazon Business $10.87 1 $10.87
Wintersong: A Novel • Amazon Business $10.44 1 $10.44
Goodbye Days • Amazon Business $10.00 1 $10.00
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda • Amazon Business $9.89 1 $9.89
United as One (Lorien Legacies) • Amazon Business $9.52 1 $9.52
The Silent Sister: A Novel • Amazon Business $9.51 1 $9.51
Salt to the Sea • Amazon Business $9.47 1 $9.47
A Visit from the Goon Squad • Amazon Business $9.40 1 $9.40
All We Have Left • Amazon Business $9.20 1 $9.20
The House of God • Amazon Business $9.04 1 $9.04
Girls Like Us: Fighting for a World Where Girls Are Not for Sale: A Memoir • Amazon Business $9.03 1 $9.03
Where'd You Go, Bernadette: A Novel • Amazon Business $8.79 1 $8.79
The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story • Amazon Business $8.56 1 $8.56
Pretty Girls • Amazon Business $8.39 1 $8.39
The Fate of Ten (Lorien Legacies) • Amazon Business $7.97 1 $7.97
The Kept Woman: A Novel (Will Trent) • Amazon Business $7.48 1 $7.48
Paperweight • Amazon Business $7.40 1 $7.40
The Problem with Forever (Harlequin Teen) • Amazon Business $7.40 1 $7.40
We Are the Ants • Amazon Business $7.20 1 $7.20
P.S. I Like You • Amazon Business $7.05 1 $7.05
Kids of Appetite • Amazon Business $6.96 1 $6.96
Life as We Knew It • Amazon Business $6.96 1 $6.96
The Female of the Species • Amazon Business $6.92 1 $6.92
A Study in Charlotte (Charlotte Holmes Novel) • Amazon Business $6.76 1 $6.76
The Boy on the Wooden Box: How the Impossible Became Possible . . . on Schindler's List • Amazon Business $6.54 1 $6.54
The Star-Touched Queen • Amazon Business $6.46 1 $6.46
The First Time She Drowned • Amazon Business $6.44 1 $6.44
The Serpent King • Amazon Business $3.88 1 $3.88

Materials cost

$525.02

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $48.04

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.88

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$610.94

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$107.81

Total project goal

$718.75

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $718.75

2 Donors

-$674.64

Donations toward project cost

-$610.94

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$63.70

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$44.11

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