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
This project is for fifty struggling middle-school students who need extra support learning English as their second language. These kids have gotten caught behind the door academically and my goal is empowering students through art with very best illustrated literature to help them love reading.
Think back -- remember when your books had pictures?
That was the best! The illustrations added meaning and beauty to the story. They made it fun and interesting to read! In fact, those illustrations were part of the storytelling itself. But then one sad day, someone told you that it was time to read books without pictures, and if you were like most of us, that was the day that reading became less fun, less interesting, and less understandable.
"Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, 'and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice 'without pictures or conversations?'" -- So begins Lewis Carroll's wonderful novel "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, which is also beautifully illustrated with witty illustrations by John Tenniel. And the drawings are as much a part of the story as the tale itself.
My Project
My students really need rich reading material, with art that connects them to the story. Our school simply does not have enough class sets of novels, and we aren't going to have them either, unless you help. Though quality reading is fundamental to our school's purpose, our Title I school must spend funds elsewhere, and the community is impoverished enough that the parents simply cannot provide supplemental materials.
The story of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" is both familiar and exciting enough for my students that I know they will read it eagerly.
They heard it might be coming, and they ask me about it every day. Thank you for helping to put this wonderful book into the hands of my students!
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
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