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

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Powerful Performative Reads!

My students need copies of the best modern plays to read and learn from as critical readers, writers and performers!

  • $500 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

My students are bursting with energy and creativity and imagination as they constantly look for different ways to see the world. They know every good performance starts with good writing and reading.

They bring their own stories from all the NYC boroughs, from their families of multiple ancestries, from their experiences as people of color, and from the streets where they learned to dream.

They can see glimmers of their own selves or others they know in the lives of the characters they read.

My Project

While my students have been exposed to some of the more traditional classics, I want them to have a chance to read and perform from some of the more recent breakout dramatic literature. In my performance studies class I want students to be able to trace great dramatic writing across generations.

Though there is a clear understanding that theater presents a means to explore human truths, students lives can only be enriched by seeing a variety of ways to explore these truths.

This analysis and comparison they do with this literature will be the foundation of their end of semester essay. In addition they will have a greater depth of writing with more representative diversity in casting to choose from for their final performances.

Ms. Kelly East Side Community 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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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
Our Lady of 121st Street: Jesus Hopped the A Train; In Arabia, We'd All Be Kings • Amazon Business $15.98 5 $79.90
Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue • Amazon Business $13.04 5 $65.20
Indecent (TCG Edition) • Amazon Business $12.34 5 $61.70
Sweat (TCG Edition) • Amazon Business $12.31 5 $61.55
John (TCG Edition) • Amazon Business $12.04 5 $60.20
The Humans (Revised TCG Edition) • Amazon Business $12.03 5 $60.15

Materials cost

$388.70

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.83

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$424.53

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$74.92

Total project goal

$499.45

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $499.45

5 Donors

-$443.57

Donations toward project cost

-$381.53

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$62.04

match offer

-$50.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$42.50

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$7.50

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$5.29

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 $0.00

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