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Mrs. Rogers from Rockaway Park, NY is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Building a Middle School Classroom Library

My students need a variety of high interest books including Divergent, Stargirl and Loser in order to give them a love for reading and to raise their academic achievement.

  • $595 goal

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My Students

Many of my Middle School students do not have access to high interest books. Our school is located in the Rockaways which is a low-income area and is extremely diverse. At our school we are always working to improve our student's capability to read novels that will inspire them.

My classroom is currently full of color and student work but has no books for the students to borrow!

I consistently reference high interest novels in my classroom as examples and my pupils will raise their hands and ask if they can borrow it. It's inspiring to see them so interested in a book but difficult to then have to tell them they won't be able to borrow it from the classroom. I want to provide my students with classroom access to these high interests novels in order to provide them with the same opportunities for learning as students in more high-income areas.

My Project

The project will allow the students access to more then 80 books on various topics and levels. Each marking period the students will borrow a book of their choice to read and create a report on it. Honing in on the high interest, they are taking on the novels and the students will participate in a 'Book Talk Presentation,' rather then a traditional report. In this report they will summarize the book (without giving away the ending!) and then explain to their peers what they liked about it, how it connected to them and provide a 4 star rating for it. The other students in the class will question them about their reading and use the presentations to help decide which book they will read next.

This Project will greatly improve my classroom by allowing my students the ability to borrow novels that interest them all year long.

Through presentations they will express their knowledge, practice reading techniques, hear book suggestions and engage in conversations with their peers about common literary interests.

Mrs. Rogers Channel View School for Research Grades 6-8

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This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Rockaway Park, NY View local requests

More than half of 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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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Walter Dean Myers (10 bk set) • AKJ Books $66.36 1 $66.36
Favorite Series Sampler -Harry Potter (7 bk set) • AKJ Books $63.46 1 $63.46
Favorite Series Sampler -Hunger Games (3 bk set) • AKJ Books $35.75 1 $35.75
Favorite Series Sampler - Pretty Little Liars (4 bk set) • AKJ Books $29.17 1 $29.17
Percy Jackson and the Olympians (5 bk set) • AKJ Books $29.16 1 $29.16
Maximum Ride • AKJ Books $13.47 1 $13.47
Twilight • AKJ Books $10.95 1 $10.95
A Night To Remember • AKJ Books $10.94 1 $10.94
The Hobbit, Or, There And Back Again • AKJ Books $10.18 1 $10.18
The Absolutely True Diary Of A Parttime Indian • AKJ Books $9.50 1 $9.50
The Giver • AKJ Books $8.99 1 $8.99
Uglies • AKJ Books $8.75 1 $8.75
The Diary of Anne Frank • AKJ Books $8.10 1 $8.10
If I Stay - PB • AKJ Books $8.02 1 $8.02
The Outsiders • AKJ Books $7.30 1 $7.30
An Abundance of Katherines • AKJ Books $7.29 1 $7.29
Stargirl (Trade Paper) • AKJ Books $7.29 1 $7.29
Crash • AKJ Books $7.29 1 $7.29
The Westing Game • AKJ Books $7.29 1 $7.29
Divergent • AKJ Books $6.85 1 $6.85
The Chocolate War • AKJ Books $6.56 1 $6.56
The Fault in Our Stars • AKJ Books $6.49 1 $6.49
The Maze Runner • AKJ Books $6.20 1 $6.20
Lord of the Flies • AKJ Books $6.00 1 $6.00
Holes • AKJ Books $5.83 1 $5.83
Tears Of A Tiger • AKJ Books $5.83 1 $5.83
The Lions of Little Rock • AKJ Books $5.83 1 $5.83
Hatchet (PB) • AKJ Books $5.83 1 $5.83
Bound • AKJ Books $5.83 1 $5.83
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry • AKJ Books $5.83 1 $5.83
Wednesday Wars, The • AKJ Books $5.83 1 $5.83
The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (Summer Camp Reads) • AKJ Books $5.59 1 $5.59
Loser • AKJ Books $5.10 1 $5.10
The River Between Us • AKJ Books $5.10 1 $5.10
The Call of the Wild • AKJ Books $5.07 1 $5.07
Behind Rebel Lines(Reissue Edition) • AKJ Books $5.07 1 $5.07
Esperanza Rising • AKJ Books $4.95 1 $4.95
To Kill a Mockingbird (Mass) • AKJ Books $4.85 1 $4.85
Number the Stars • AKJ Books $4.70 1 $4.70
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory • AKJ Books $4.00 1 $4.00
Flipped • AKJ Books $1.80 1 $1.80

Materials cost

$468.40

Vendor shipping charges

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Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.03

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$505.43

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$89.19

Total project goal

$594.62

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $594.62

3 Donors

-$554.62

Donations toward project cost

-$471.43

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$83.19

match offer

-$40.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$34.00

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$6.00

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