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Ms. Wilson from Spring Valley, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Ready! Set! Action! Director's Project

My students need materials on film directors for a senior English project aimed at motivating students to apply standards based skills in an innovative way!

  • $349 goal

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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

"The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught,as that every child should be given the wish to learn." - John Lubbock. That is just what this class does; motivate our students to analyze and understand literature through the use of film. But we need your help!

Many of the seniors in the Film as Literature classes will be the first to graduate in their families, some will be the first to go on to college.

Our students come from an ethnically diverse, lower socio-economic neighborhood in southern California. This course is offered as an alternative to the standard English course and the goal is to get students excited about English by tying in film with literature.

My Project

One of the major writing projects in this course is to research a director of the student's choice, discuss their background, work, technique, career, & style! Students are required to learn to use a variety of sources and document the use of each one. Help us update our available sources with books about exciting and appealing director's like Tim Burton, Quentin Tarantino, James Cameron (Avatar) and many others. Don't you wish you were in this English class in high school?!

This project is important to a significant population of our graduating class.

By offering alternative courses we are able to help motivate students to stay and finish high school who might otherwise give up and drop out. Furthermore, since the books will be housed in the high school library all students will have access to the new titles!

Ms. Wilson Mount Miguel High School Grades 9-12

Equity Focus

This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Spring Valley, CA View local requests

More than three‑quarters 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

100 students impacted 8donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
501 Movie Directors • AKJ Books $22.19 1 $22.19
Movie Director • AKJ Books $20.03 1 $20.03
My First Movie • AKJ Books $11.84 1 $11.84
Chambers Film Factfinder • AKJ Books $10.32 1 $10.32
The Film Encyclopedia • AKJ Books $25.86 1 $25.86
The Film Sense • AKJ Books $14.02 1 $14.02
Extraordinary People in the Movies • AKJ Books $12.54 1 $12.54
Altman on Altman • AKJ Books $12.58 1 $12.58
Silent Bob Speaks • AKJ Books $10.32 1 $10.32
Rebels on the Backlot • AKJ Books $11.09 1 $11.09
The Kill Bill Diary • AKJ Books $12.54 1 $12.54
The Making of Avatar • AKJ Books $29.60 1 $29.60
Gothic Fantasy • AKJ Books $13.28 1 $13.28
Burton on Burton • AKJ Books $13.32 1 $13.32
Tim Burton''s The Nightmare Before Christmas • AKJ Books $16.24 1 $16.24

Materials cost

$235.77

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$21.57

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.54

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$295.88

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$52.21

Total project goal

$348.09

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$348.09

6 Donors

-$160.69

Donations toward project cost

-$147.94

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$12.75

match offer

-$174.05

Match offer toward project cost

-$147.94

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$26.11

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$13.36

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$0.00

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