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Ms. Rowe from Philadelphia, PA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Help Us Understand Othello!

My students need 33 copies of Othello in an edition that offers notes to Shakespeare's text, in order to help them learn how to read and analyze the play on their own.

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My Students

Teacher: Let's read Shakespeare! Students: NO! (groan, moan, whine) It's too difficult! Teacher: Well, what if we use these awesome new Folger Library Editions of Shakespeare, complete with footnotes and explanations of all that difficult text? Students: Hooray! Now we can succeed!!

My students are wonderful!

I teach a very diverse group of seniors in the International Baccalaureate (IB) Program in a high school in Pennsylvania. IB is an outside degree program in which we participate. Our students take courses in their junior and senior years of high school which, if they pass the courses and the final exams, can give them credits towards a college degree. IB is a prestigious and internationally recognized program. My students have worked very hard over the last four years, and now are inching closer to their final semesters of high school. This is a time of intense study and great pressure, during which my students need all the help they can get.

My Project

I want my students to learn to love Shakespeare; however, I don't believe they can truly understand or love his work when they rely on books that translate the text into modern words. I want my students to use their brains to think about what they are reading and learn to interpret it themselves. That's why I'm requesting a class set of Folger Edition copies of Othello. My students need a little help to read Shakespeare, and the Folger edition will provide them with that extra support. We also plan plan on doing a cross-curricular project between English and Psychology while we read Othello, and the Folger Editions will certainly come in handy with that as well.

Part of the IB senior year course is to read four texts from the same genre and study those texts in very close detail.

This year, we have chosen to read plays. The end goal of this close study is for students to pass their final IB exams in order to obtain college credit. Since they must answer questions about the genre unit, these books will most definitely be instrumental in helping my students to do their best on the IB exams.

Ms. Rowe Northeast High School Grades 9-12

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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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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Othello (Folgers) • AKJ Books $4.37 33 $144.21

Materials cost

$144.21

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.16

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$176.37

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$31.12

Total project goal

$207.49

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $207.49

5 Donors

-$207.49

Donations toward project cost

-$176.37

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$31.12

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