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Finding Empathy & Joy in Books

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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

My 9th grade students are eager to learn more about their identity and constantly seek answers to what their individual purpose actually is. They are desperate to talk about relevant and engaging topics they face daily. My students have a growth set mentality and challenge themselves to reach our class’ high expectations.

One of my students said the following, “From time to time I think about how you invited me to move to your honors class, and it always brings a smile to my face!

First of all THANKS, Mrs. M. for making school an awesome experience! And for believing and motivating me to join English Honors. It was a great experience I will never forget. You will forever be one of the best teachers I ever had!” I love helping my students reach goals they never knew they could achieve.

My Project

Most students are familiar with dystopian novels or fairy tales. Many can use their imagination to picture themselves as the main character of a make believe world. However, this year, our 9th grade students will be challenged to read multiple real accounts of people who may be different from them.

This project focuses on surrounding students with memoirs, actual accounts, and true stories in an attempt to help students find empathy and joy through reading.

Students will learn how reading fiction and nonfiction are different. They will learn to identify text structure including description, compare and contrast, sequential and numerical order, if/then, and problem/solution. In addition to reading multiple examples of informational texts as a class, students will have the experience of reading an informational text of their choice. Lastly, students will get the opportunity to write their own informational essay on a topic that interests them.

Students will also have the opportunity to read a memoir of their choice before they begin writing about their own life experiences. I want students to know that they are the authors of their own stories, anad this project will give them exposure to many examples of individuals who have reached success despite their challenges.

Mrs. Macias Canyon View Junior High School Grades 9-12

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Orem, UT View local requests

More than a third 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
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes from a Medical Life • Amazon Business $19.69 1 $19.69
The Cat I Never Named: A True Story of Love, War, and Survival • Amazon Business $18.39 1 $18.39
How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived • Amazon Business $17.57 1 $17.57
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 (Random House Large Print) • Amazon Business $17.39 1 $17.39
Manuelito • Amazon Business $17.24 1 $17.24
World War Two: Against The Rising Sun (Campfire Graphic Novels) • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
Lilia: a true story of love, courage, and survival in the shadow of war • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
Black Wall Street: From Riot to Renaissance in Tulsa's Historic Greenwood District • Amazon Business $16.34 1 $16.34
Know My Name: A Memoir • Amazon Business $16.20 1 $16.20
Into the Abyss: An Extraordinary True Story • Amazon Business $16.19 1 $16.19
Crying in H Mart: A Memoir • Amazon Business $16.17 1 $16.17
The Money Club: A Teenage Guide to Financial Literacy • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
The Pale-Faced Lie: A True Story • Amazon Business $15.26 1 $15.26
Voces Sin Fronteras: Our Stories, Our Truth (Bilingual) (Shout Mouse Press Young Adult Books) (Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
And Now I Spill the Family Secrets: An Illustrated Memoir • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
Rush: Memoir of a Gay Sorority Girl • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
Cloudbuster Nine: The Untold Story of Ted Williams and the Baseball Team That Helped Win World War II • Amazon Business $14.56 1 $14.56
Free Lunch • Amazon Business $14.55 1 $14.55
Young Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Memoir and a Reckoning • Amazon Business $14.55 1 $14.55
The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism • Amazon Business $14.46 1 $14.46
Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations • Amazon Business $14.40 1 $14.40
Apple: (Skin to the Core) • Amazon Business $14.21 1 $14.21
All Boys Aren't Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto • Amazon Business $14.10 1 $14.10
The Yellow House: A Memoir (2019 National Book Award Winner) • Amazon Business $13.54 1 $13.54
Great Battles for Boys: WW2 Europe • Amazon Business $13.49 1 $13.49
Boy, Dream Big • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
Brave Face: A Memoir • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
Because I Was a Girl: True Stories for Girls of All Ages • Amazon Business $12.69 1 $12.69
Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac: A Novel • Amazon Business $12.40 1 $12.40
Anxiety Relief for Teens: Essential CBT Skills and Mindfulness Practices to Overcome Anxiety and Stress • Amazon Business $12.18 1 $12.18
How To Grow Up Like Me: The Ballou Story Project (Shout Mouse Press Young Adult Books) (Volume 1) • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
SUPER: A Memoir • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
Survivors Club: The True Story of a Very Young Prisoner of Auschwitz • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
Three Little Words: A Memoir • Amazon Business $11.79 1 $11.79
Almost American Girl: An Illustrated Memoir • Amazon Business $11.69 1 $11.69
The Suffragist Playbook: Your Guide to Changing the World • Amazon Business $11.59 1 $11.59
When Stars Are Scattered • Amazon Business $10.84 1 $10.84
The Distance Between Us: A Memoir • Amazon Business $10.69 1 $10.69
Enrique's Journey: The Story of a Boy's Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with His Mother • Amazon Business $10.62 1 $10.62
Becoming: Adapted for Young Readers • Amazon Business $10.31 1 $10.31
Witches: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem • Amazon Business $10.19 1 $10.19
The Far Away Brothers (Adapted for Young Adults): Two Teenage Immigrants Making a Life in America • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Condoleezza Rice: A Memoir of My Extraordinary, Ordinary Family and Me • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921: The History of Black Wall Street, and its Destruction in America's Worst and Most Controversial Racial Riot • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Two Days and One Suitcase: The True Story of One Family's Choice of Friendship and Goodwill During World War II • Amazon Business $9.95 1 $9.95
Ordinary Hazards: A Memoir • Amazon Business $9.69 1 $9.69
Outcasts United: The Story of a Refugee Soccer Team That Changed a Town • Amazon Business $9.59 1 $9.59
The Librarian of Auschwitz (Special Edition) • Amazon Business $9.39 1 $9.39
No Better Friend: Young Readers Edition: A Man, a Dog, and Their Incredible True Story of Friendship and Survival in World War II • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Obsessed: A Memoir of My Life with OCD • Amazon Business $8.29 1 $8.29
Interesting Stories For Curious People: A Collection of Fascinating Stories About History, Science, Pop Culture and Just About Anything Else You Can Think of • Amazon Business $8.19 1 $8.19
I Escaped The Salem Witch Trials: Salem, Massachusetts 1692 • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Four Perfect Pebbles: A True Story of the Holocaust • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Behind Rebel Lines: The Incredible Story of Emma Edmonds, Civil War Spy • Amazon Business $6.95 1 $6.95
The Finest Hours (True Rescue Series) • Amazon Business $6.78 1 $6.78
Brown Girl Dreaming • Amazon Business $6.50 1 $6.50
I Survived the California Wildfires, 2018 (I Survived #20) (20) • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
47 Days: The True Story of Two Teen Boys Defying Hitler's Reich • Amazon Business $5.49 1 $5.49
Go Ask Alice (Anonymous Diaries) • Amazon Business $5.40 1 $5.40
I Survived the Attacks of September 11th, 2001 (I Survived, Book 6) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99

Materials cost

$765.28

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.48

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$806.76

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$142.37

Total project goal

$949.13

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $949.13

1 Donor

-$474.56

Donations toward project cost

-$403.38

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$71.18

match offer

-$474.56

Match offer toward project cost

-$403.38

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$71.18

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