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Mrs. McNaughton from E. Brunswick, NJ is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Book Clubs Are Lit

Help me give my students a variety of diverse and multicultural reading choices for their independent reading and book club activities!

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My Students

I share a classroom with another Gen Ed English Teacher in a large, diverse public school; our class sizes range from 25 to over 30 students a class period, and we both teach students with reading levels that range from ELL and lower levels to AP. Recently, we cleaned out her old in classroom library (she has been in this room for quite some time!) and we realized we need to revamp our library collection for student use.

Our student body is comprised of primarily multicultural and dynamic young people, and they deserve to have the opportunity to be exposed to texts that reflect the dynamic culture of our school community.

As teachers, you find out quickly that students are more motivated and interested in reading when they can connect with texts that reflect who they are as individuals. Their uniqueness should be echoed in the texts they read, so as to continue to inspire and encourage their reading both inside and outside of the classroom, for years to come.

Nothing is more rewarding as a secondary ELA teacher than to see a normally unmotivated student return a book and say, with pride, "Guess what? I finished the whole thing!"

My Project

As a Gen Ed ELA Teacher in a large district, our book room cannot completely support the reading and interest needs of our student population. We can only ask for so much from our district's budget in terms of supplies each year, and those supplies are typically reserved for curriculum based (read: "the literary canon") reading and texts.

Research and experience have proved to me that student choice in independent reading and book club activities are what really get students interested in texts, and, in order to encourage independent reading, contemporary and multicultural literature is a must!

By supplying students with more options for reading, they are more likely to become engaged and interested in the text itself as well as the activities we participate in within the classroom.

Book Clubs are an integral component to my classroom syllabus, and the more access students have to interesting texts, the more success they will attain as readers and as learners!

Mrs. McNaughton East Brunswick High School Grades 9-12

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E. Brunswick, NJ View local requests 150 students impacted 3donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Long Way Down • Amazon Business $6.70 5 $33.50
All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir • Amazon Business $17.68 1 $17.68
Dear Evan Hansen: The Novel • Amazon Business $14.82 1 $14.82
The Poet X (Americas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature. Honorable Mention) • Amazon Business $14.39 1 $14.39
Americanized: Rebel Without a Green Card • Amazon Business $12.59 1 $12.59
Darius the Great Is Not Okay • Amazon Business $12.59 1 $12.59
Like a Love Story • Amazon Business $12.32 1 $12.32
Trinkets • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
The Sun Is Also a Star • Amazon Business $10.26 1 $10.26
Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America • Amazon Business $10.20 1 $10.20
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda • Amazon Business $9.71 1 $9.71
Five Feet Apart • Amazon Business $9.69 1 $9.69
My Name Is Parvana (Breadwinner) • Amazon Business $9.44 1 $9.44
Parvana's Journey (Breadwinner) • Amazon Business $9.21 1 $9.21
The Breadwinner • Amazon Business $9.18 1 $9.18
Leah on the Offbeat • Amazon Business $8.00 1 $8.00
Tell Me Three Things • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
American Street • Amazon Business $7.55 1 $7.55
Piecing Me Together • Amazon Business $7.48 1 $7.48
As Brave As You • Amazon Business $6.98 1 $6.98
Inside Out and Back Again • Amazon Business $4.39 1 $4.39

Materials cost

$238.96

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.58

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$272.54

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$48.10

Total project goal

$320.64

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $320.64

2 Donors

-$211.00

Donations toward project cost

-$179.35

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$31.65

match offer

-$109.64

Match offer toward project cost

-$93.19

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$16.45

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