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Mrs. Bruck from Bethlehem, PA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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My Students Love Reading Again!

Help me give my students a greater selection of high-interest and diverse literature!

  • $583 goal

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My Students

My students are in tenth and eleventh grades and have a passion for the arts. Our school gives students the opportunity to spend half of their day in one of the following majors: Theatre, Dance, Visual Arts, Literary Arts, Figure Skating, Instrumental Music, and Vocal. The other half of their day is in academic classes, including my English class.

We are a public charter school, and auditions to our school are academically blind - students are accepted solely based on artistic audition, and as such, we have students of all academic levels, just like a traditional public school.

Our students are passionate about their arts and this passion transfers to their academic classes. We are ranked as the #1 best high school for the Arts in the state of Pennsylvania (niche.com), and are ranked as the top performer in our region on the state English assessment and have received the designations as a Title I Reward School: High Achievement three out of the past four years. We were also recently named a 2018 National Blue Ribbon School!

My Project

Our school does not have a library or a librarian, so we rely on donations of books in order to provide a selection for our students. Recently, the 10th grade English teachers took on an initiative to promote independent reading in our classrooms. My students spend 10-15 minutes most class periods reading a book of their choice, and then share what they are reading, both informally and formally, helping each other choose what to read next.

And, since we started this focus on independent reading, so many students have told us that they have found their love of reading again - something they never thought they would get back!

In fact, we have a waiting list for several of these titles, because, as students read them, they recommend them to their classmates. The books in this project come from both student requests and recommendations.

Your donation will help to facilitate a culture of readers in our classroom that wouldn't exist without these books!

Mrs. Bruck
Grades 9-12

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
To All the Boys I've Loved Before • Amazon Business $17.99 2 $35.98
A Spark of Light: A Novel • Amazon Business $17.39 2 $34.78
Prisoner B-3087 • Amazon Business $15.29 2 $30.58
The Sun Is Also a Star (Yoon, Nicola) • Amazon Business $15.19 2 $30.38
Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Pantheon Graphic Library) • Amazon Business $14.28 2 $28.56
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orisha) • Amazon Business $14.24 2 $28.48
All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel • Amazon Business $13.60 2 $27.20
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda • Amazon Business $12.59 2 $25.18
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter • Amazon Business $12.59 2 $25.18
Brown Girl Dreaming (Newbery Honor Book) • Amazon Business $11.89 2 $23.78
Unwind (Unwind Dystology) • Amazon Business $11.69 2 $23.38
Eleanor & Park • Amazon Business $10.21 2 $20.42
All American Boys • Amazon Business $9.89 2 $19.78
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Pantheon Graphic Library) • Amazon Business $9.73 2 $19.46
Milk and Honey • Amazon Business $8.99 2 $17.98
Sharp Objects • Amazon Business $8.99 2 $17.98
Another Day (Every Day) • Amazon Business $8.79 2 $17.58
Every Day • Amazon Business $7.99 2 $15.98
An Abundance of Katherines • Amazon Business $7.99 2 $15.98

Materials cost

$458.64

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.88

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$495.52

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$87.44

Total project goal

$582.96

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $582.96

11 Donors

-$582.96

Donations toward project cost

-$495.52

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$87.44

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