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Ms. Garvoille from Madison, WI is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Putting Real Life in Real Hands

My students need high-interest and especially non-fiction (Mary Roach is great!) options that we don't yet have in our school library.

  • $445 goal

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My Students

What was English like for you? Did you read what everyone else in the class HAD to read & write the same essay, or did you choose something that no one else was reading, or something that others recommended to you, at your own pace, and with your own creativity in coming up with a project?

My students are 11th graders in an urban setting (Madison, WI).

We have a high number of free/reduced lunch students, a 47% African-American/Bi-racial population, and my classes range from ELL classes (multiple native languages) to general-tracked classes to Honors classes. I have students who come into the school year at a 2nd or 3rd grade reading level, and then I have students who are reading and comprehending at the college level. My students are being given the freedom of choice-book reading.

My Project

I have a classroom library, but to allow all of my students to be able to read freely throughout the year and to have enough choices, I need to dramatically increase my library. I see my readers listening to book talks by me and their classmates; I see my readers being able to pick up a book, regardless of level, and still show that they can read and take pride in that. Right now, we only have students read 4 books/year. Students should be reading double that, triple that...and they should be able to use the literacy lessons, the grammar lessons, the quick-writes, the table talks...all with THEIR book. They will also now have time to conference with me about their progress, tell me about book titles I may not have read yet, and allow me to focus on a skill that I can see they are having troubles with. I envision most students learning to like to read...doing more reading than they have in the past 8 years combined!

Students and I will now have time to conference about their progress, tell me about book titles I may not have read yet, and allow me to focus on a skill that I can see they are having troubles with.

I envision most students learning to like to read and to do more reading than they have in the past 11 years combined! To build a community in the classroom around the books they are sharing, I need to have more books in my classroom, right at their fingertips, right in front of them.

Ms. Garvoille East 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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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

130 students impacted 11donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
In Cold Blood • Amazon Business $9.15 2 $18.30
The Underground Railroad (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel • Amazon Business $16.17 1 $16.17
Between the World and Me • Amazon Business $14.40 1 $14.40
Another Brooklyn: A Novel • Amazon Business $13.79 1 $13.79
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story • Amazon Business $12.14 1 $12.14
Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War • Amazon Business $11.90 1 $11.90
Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War • Amazon Business $11.71 1 $11.71
Between a Rock and a Hard Place • Amazon Business $11.68 1 $11.68
Into the Wild • Amazon Business $11.49 1 $11.49
Sickened: The True Story of a Lost Childhood • Amazon Business $11.44 1 $11.44
A Man Named Dave • Amazon Business $11.42 1 $11.42
Room • Amazon Business $11.31 1 $11.31
The Burn Journals • Amazon Business $11.31 1 $11.31
The Glass Castle: A Memoir • Amazon Business $10.72 1 $10.72
Every Last Word • Amazon Business $10.58 1 $10.58
The Privilege of Youth: A Teenager's Story • Amazon Business $10.35 1 $10.35
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption • Amazon Business $10.09 1 $10.09
Dope Sick • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America • Amazon Business $9.87 1 $9.87
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers • Amazon Business $9.73 1 $9.73
Once a King, Always a King: The Unmaking of a Latin King • Amazon Business $9.65 1 $9.65
Invisible Man • Amazon Business $9.04 1 $9.04
3,096 Days in Captivity: The True Story of My Abduction, Eight Years of Enslavement, and Escape • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
The Art of Racing in the Rain: A Novel • Amazon Business $8.92 1 $8.92
Gone Girl • Amazon Business $8.92 1 $8.92
In Real Life: My Journey to a Pixelated World • Amazon Business $8.90 1 $8.90
The Lost Boy: A Foster Child's Search for the Love of a Family • Amazon Business $8.61 1 $8.61
Bad Boy: A Memoir • Amazon Business $8.15 1 $8.15
Mexican WhiteBoy • Amazon Business $7.32 1 $7.32
American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History • Amazon Business $6.52 1 $6.52
We Were Here • Amazon Business $6.48 1 $6.48
A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story • Amazon Business $6.26 1 $6.26
We Beat the Street: How a Friendship Pact Led to Success • Amazon Business $6.25 1 $6.25

Materials cost

$342.40

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.14

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$377.54

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$66.62

Total project goal

$444.16

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $444.16

11 Donors

-$443.99

Donations toward project cost

-$377.54

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$66.45

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$0.17

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 $0.00

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