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Mrs. Nelson from Alcoa, TN is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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First Chapter Friday Collection

Help me give my students new books to read for First Chapter Friday!

  • $1,887 goal

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My Project

I teach ELA at the most wonderful school ever. My students are respectful, responsible, accountable, and genuinely love to come to school and learn. I teach five classes a day filled with a variety of levels including inclusion and non-English speaking students. One thing that my students love to do is read and they love utilizing my classroom library for free reading time!

Every Friday we do something called First Chapter Friday.

Here's how it works: I read the first chapter of a book and then students decide if they want to find out what happens next by continuing to read it on their own. By doing First Chapter Friday, I expose my students to a variety of texts and genres that they might not otherwise choose for themselves.

The problem that we have had this year is that I do not have enough copies to allow students to keep reading. I have over 100 students and often only have 2 copies of the book that I read for FCF. This creates quite a waitlist for a book that students are excited to read. To solve this problem, I would like to have 5 copies of every book so that each class has access to the book that we read.

Mrs. Nelson Alcoa Middle School Grades 6-8

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Alcoa, TN View local requests 120 students impacted 4donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
What About Will • Amazon Business $13.50 5 $67.50
Just Like That • Amazon Business $12.39 5 $61.95
Orbiting Jupiter • Amazon Business $10.99 5 $54.95
Divergent • Amazon Business $10.80 5 $54.00
Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two • Amazon Business $9.89 5 $49.45
Starfish • Amazon Business $8.99 5 $44.95
Carry Me Home • Amazon Business $8.99 5 $44.95
Lifeboat 12 • Amazon Business $8.99 5 $44.95
The Blackbird Girls • Amazon Business $8.99 5 $44.95
Before the Ever After • Amazon Business $8.99 5 $44.95
A Wish in the Dark • Amazon Business $8.99 5 $44.95
Akata Witch (The Nsibidi Scripts) • Amazon Business $8.59 5 $42.95
It's Trevor Noah: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Adapted for Young Readers) • Amazon Business $8.09 5 $40.45
We Dream of Space: A Newbery Honor Award Winner • Amazon Business $8.07 5 $40.35
The Kate In Between • Amazon Business $7.99 5 $39.95
For Black Girls Like Me • Amazon Business $7.99 5 $39.95
The War That Saved My Life • Amazon Business $9.89 4 $39.56
Out of My Mind • Amazon Business $7.49 5 $37.45
The Running Dream (Schneider Family Book Award - Teen Book Winner) • Amazon Business $9.29 4 $37.16
Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise • Amazon Business $8.99 4 $35.96
Fallout • Amazon Business $6.99 5 $34.95
How to Find What You're Not Looking For • Amazon Business $8.50 4 $34.00
City of Ghosts (1) • Amazon Business $6.78 5 $33.90
Scythe (1) (Arc of a Scythe) • Amazon Business $6.64 5 $33.20
Becoming Muhammad Ali • Amazon Business $6.59 5 $32.95
The City of Ember (The City of Ember Book 1) • Amazon Business $8.09 4 $32.36
A Night Divided (Scholastic Gold) • Amazon Business $7.99 4 $31.96
The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl • Amazon Business $7.99 4 $31.96
Towers Falling • Amazon Business $7.99 4 $31.96
Black Brother, Black Brother • Amazon Business $7.99 4 $31.96
The Graveyard Book • Amazon Business $9.82 3 $29.46
Game Changer • Amazon Business $8.99 3 $26.97
A Kind of Spark • Amazon Business $6.39 4 $25.56
Resistance (Scholastic Gold) • Amazon Business $7.99 3 $23.97
The Canyon's Edge • Amazon Business $7.99 3 $23.97
Stella by Starlight • Amazon Business $7.39 3 $22.17
Long Way Down: The Graphic Novel • Amazon Business $10.99 2 $21.98
The Door of No Return • Amazon Business $10.47 2 $20.94
Finally Seen • Amazon Business $15.39 1 $15.39
Hope in the Holler • Amazon Business $6.99 2 $13.98
How It Feels to Float • Amazon Business $10.79 1 $10.79
Forged by Fire • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Beyond the Bright Sea • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Pax, Journey Home • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
The Benefits of Being an Octopus: A Novel • Amazon Business $8.69 1 $8.69
Invisible: A Graphic Novel • Amazon Business $8.34 1 $8.34
The Night Diary • Amazon Business $8.09 1 $8.09
Mystery on Magnolia Circle • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
All the Bright Places • Amazon Business $7.48 1 $7.48
Long Way Down • Amazon Business $6.78 1 $6.78

Materials cost

$1,550.05

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$23.25

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,603.30

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$282.94

Total project goal

$1,886.24

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$1,886.24

2 Donors

-$549.43

Donations toward project cost

-$534.43

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$15.00

match offer

-$1,257.49

Match offer toward project cost

-$1,068.87

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$188.62

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$79.31

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$0.00

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