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Mr. McCarthy from Flushing, NY is requesting classroom basics through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Note-Taking Needs a Make-Over with an Annotation Revolution

Help me give my students quality 4-in-1 multi-color retractable pens and highlighters for reading and annotating complex texts to study in style.

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Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Students

All of our students are recent immigrants from over 20 countries who have been in the country for less than 4 years. My students are some of the hardest working, bravest, and most resilient people that I know. In addition to dealing with the regular stress of being teenagers, my students have to adapt to a new culture, environment, and learn English all within four to five years to graduate. For many, college is their goal toward their dream careers. But for others, graduating high school is a valid challenge and concern. Many of our students have low literacy, deep social-emotional challenges, financial obligations to their family, etc. Nevertheless, despite the inherent cultural, socio-economic, and political obstacles, our students defy the odds year after year. Our students come in angry, lost, scared, confused, and alone, but leave determined, confident, and poised to succeed. We are always striving to increase those numbers through love, high expectations, equity, and community.

My Project

"To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting."~Edmund Burke

When students come to school they know that reading is one of those essential skills they need to succeed in the world, but for many students, especially English language learners, reading academic texts is a daunting feat.

An effective way to improve and enhance student reading comprehension is to teach them how to constantly summarize, reflect, question, and make connections to what they are reading on, in other words, teach them how to annotate texts. Teaching students to annotate simultaneously integrates reading with writing to help students suspend their tendency to blindly accept information as fact, so that they may analyze and evaluate text to derive their own conclusions.

In addition, through annotating, students create a personal and meaningful reading experience that will further engage them as thinkers to expand and deepen their understanding about their world. Moreover, I have found that very few students come to school knowing how to annotate beyond translating, underlining, and highlighting, which most do without reason or purpose.

Research has shown that we learn faster and remember better, using colors, so this is why I believe giving each of my students a 4-in-1 multi-color retractable pen and dual highlighter will help them to customize their own annotating system, which they can internalize, remember, and use well after high school. With these special annotating tools, my students will be able to practice and develop annotating skills as each color will represent a discrete skill, i.e., summarizing in red, opinions in blue, questions in green, or any other student-choice based configuration of colors.

Just as Edmund Burke stressed how reflection during reading is important, I believe (academic) reading is that much more comprehensible when it is done with critical thinking and annotations.

Mr. McCarthy Flushing International High School Grades 9-12

Equity Focus

At this school, more than 50% of students are Black, Latino, and/or Native American, and more than 50% come from low-income households. Learn how your donation to this school supports a more equitable education.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Flushing, NY View local requests

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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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Paper Mate InkJoy Quatro Retractable Ballpoint Pens, Medium Point, Business Ink Colors, Box of 12 (1951358) • Amazon Business $29.09 11 $319.99
Double-Sided Highlighter Pens Deep Retro & Mild 10-Colors Fine Bold Dual Tip Markers Underlining • Amazon Business $15.99 10 $159.90

Materials cost

$479.89

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.20

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$517.09

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$91.25

Total project goal

$608.34

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $608.34

3 Donors

-$583.34

Donations toward project cost

-$495.85

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$87.49

match offer

-$25.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$21.25

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$3.75

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 $0.00

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