My students need 11 assorted high-interest teen titles like "Starters" by Lisa Price, "Son" by Lois Lowry and "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding.
$510 goal
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My students love to read! Unfortunately for them, budget cuts currently hinder their ability to satisfy their big reading appetites. With dated texts and pages falling out of books, it is no wonder that my students are feeling down on books. You can help change that by giving my kids new books!
As a teacher in a 6th-12th grade school in the South Bronx, I have the pleasure of teaching my current sophomores twice, once in middle school and now in high school!
With that said, my beloved middle school babies who once loved to read have become reluctant readers as a result of few resources.
As seventh graders, my students were ravenous for books. Now, as a sophomores, due to poorly funded classroom libraries, they have forgotten what it's like to love to read. I want to remind my babies (because they will always be my babies) how much they loved to read by providing them with some fantastic books.
My students are young women and men who will soon inherit the world. The texts that I have chosen will both inspire and challenge them. They are texts about embarking on great adventures and texts about coming into one's own. They are novels of great sorrow, great joy - they are novels of life. My students deserve books that move them and remind them how much they love to read.
My Project
My students need a variety of high interest texts that are relatable, motivational, and exciting. Too often English classrooms are relegated to following the canon often times losing students in the old rhetoric. My students deserve to have an opportunity to savor language and life through novels that embody what life is like today, not 100 years ago.
Currently, my school does not have the funding needed to update classroom texts. The books that we currently have are falling apart and antiquated. There is not enough variety to really encompass the many reading levels of my students and many of my students find themselves either reading a book that is too hard or a book that is too easy. As English teachers, we are stuck teaching the same texts over and over again - texts that continue to go over our students' heads in diction and language. My students deserve to read about characters that seem truly real to them, characters that they see in everyday life.
Right now, many of my students are reading far below grade level.
Without the proper tools to move them, it is inevitable that they will not be college-ready. The best way for a child to grow in reading levels is to read, but without high-interest books, few of my children will do so voluntarily. With your gift, you will have the power to give the gift of literacy to children who truly need it.
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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