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Ms. Chung from Bronx, NY is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Powerful Books for Powerful Kids

My students need compelling, life changing novels like "Me Talk Pretty One Day," "Blindness" & "100 Years of Solitude"

  • $1,717 goal

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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

As a teacher in a 6th-12th grade school in the South Bronx, I have the pleasure of teaching my current seniors for the third time. For the very first time, my students will have the opportunity to take a high-level, honors English course as 12th graders that will challenge them to critically think.

As seventh graders, my students were ravenous for books.

Now, as a seniors, 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 like "Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides", "Another Country" that move them and remind them how much they love to read.

My Project

My students need a variety of high interest and complex texts that will prepare them adequately for the discussions and thinking that is required in a college classroom. To do this, my students require a series of rigorous texts that challenge their assumptions and push their thinking. In addition to this, 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. As English teachers, we are stuck teaching the same texts over and over again - texts that do not always address the layered world that we live in today. My students deserve to read about characters that seem truly real to them, characters that they see in everyday life, and characters that look like them. They also deserve to read texts like "Me Talk Pretty One Day," "Blindness" & "100 Years of Solitude" that ignites their inner reader and thinker.

My school is one that strives to provide our students with a college prep education that allows them to compete in both college and career.

Without the proper tools to move them, it is inevitable that they will not be college-ready. This honors English class is an opportunity for our most gifted students to rise as critics and lovers of books such as "Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace", Foreword by Dave Eggers and "Let the Great World Spin" Colum McCann.

Ms. Chung Urban Assembly Math & Science 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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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
Between the World and Me • AKJ Books $14.60 20 $292.00
One Hundred Years of Solitude • AKJ Books $13.86 20 $277.20
Me Talk Pretty One Day • AKJ Books $11.68 20 $233.60
Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace, Foreword by Dave Eggers • AKJ Books $13.14 10 $131.40
Let the Great World Spin Colum McCann • AKJ Books $12.41 10 $124.10
Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides • AKJ Books $12.41 10 $124.10
Another Country • AKJ Books $11.64 10 $116.40
Blindness • AKJ Books $10.95 10 $109.50

Materials cost

$1,408.30

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$21.12

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,459.42

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$257.54

Total project goal

$1,716.96

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,716.96

3 Donors

-$1,716.96

Donations toward project cost

-$1,459.42

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$257.54

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