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Ms. Healy from New York, NY is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Making Midsummer Magic

Help me give my students magic, romance and Shakespeare's poetry with class sets of Midsummer.

  • $401 goal

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My Students

Imagine an oasis of art in a city, populated by students from every socioeconomic group, every background, every creative interest. That is my school, an arts magnet school that attracts students from every borough of NYC to pursue visual art, music, dance, and theater. For four years they take both studio classes and academics to graduate with a diploma and a special designation for pre-professional training in the arts.

Though they may be destined for Broadway or MoMA, English is not necessarily their strong suit.

I strive to create a class environment that is routinized, but flexible, academically rigorous, but still creative. It helps to have a variety of resources to do that - books to differentiate instruction, a projector, and document camera to show lessons, movies, and art. The students challenge me to innovate, to get creative and to make the esoteric laws of reading and writing accessible.

My Project

At my performing arts high school, I engage students with literature through acting, dancing, music, film, and visual art. Teaching plays enables my kids to get up and create while honing their reading skills. We need copies of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream for our library.

Midsummer has something for everyone: unrequited love, rebellious teenagers, fighting fairies, comical workmen, mistaken identity — and it's been a very successful text with my freshmen.

It lends itself to creative interpretation and gives students a sense of agency and accomplishment. Shakespeare is a really important author! But our books are decrepit, losing pages, and falling apart.

Ms. Healy Fiorello H Laguardia High School Grades 9-12

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New York, 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

Materials Cost Quantity Total
A Midsummer Night's Dream • AKJ Education $4.37 70 $305.90

Materials cost

$305.90

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.59

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$340.49

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$60.09

Total project goal

$400.58

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$400.58

10 Donors

-$278.99

Donations toward project cost

-$237.15

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$41.84

match offer

-$121.59

Match offer toward project cost

-$103.35

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$18.24

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$0.00

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