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Ms. Kelley Wolcott from Brooklyn, NY is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Stop a Bookless Class from Drying LikeA Raisin in the Sun!

My students need 80 copies of "A Raisin in the Sun" for our unit "exploring the American dream".

  • $697 goal

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I teach 11th grade English at a high school in NY. It is a high poverty, public, and urban college preparatory high school, that is affiliated with Outward Bound program and has a focus on project based learning.

Eleventh grade is a particularly challenging year for our students for so many reasons. Many, for the first time, are thinking about their life beyond high school, and worried about all of the the hurdles that they will have to jump over to get there from academic success to overcoming personal and economic challenges. Because of the shortcomings of urban education, the vast majority of our students enter the 11th grade 2-6 years below grade level in reading and writing. Therefore our students tend to find junior a great challenge because of the need to sharpen reading and writing skills that will enable them to become more successful on SATs and to pass the English Regents, a two day long state examination that is necessary for graduation.

Because so many students have come to urban, public high schools from extremely diverse backgrounds,with learning disabilities, varying levels of educational experience and mastery of the English language, it becomes so important (and difficult) to find the "right book" to teach, and even more difficult to find the book for them to fall in love with. In the past seven years that I have been teaching, I have found that the key to getting kids hooked on reading is through the use of drama. If there is one thing that lures students to reading quality literature, is going beyond reading words on a page but "getting into a character" and "speaking their words." Getting students to engage with their reading by entering the world of their text they through the eyes of a character that they are playing, is a very powerful experience for all students and helps them to become more confident and proficient readers. "A Raisin in the Sun" is a play that our student population is able to strongly identify with and lends to giving students a very moving learning experience, while thinking about the topic of our study, "exploring the American dream."

In the past seven years that I have been teaching in under-resourced schools, I have never had the opportunity to put a book in the hands of every single student due to of the lack of funding. For the first time, the generous donations made by donors, has made it possible for me to order the books that my students deserve to have. Nothing would make me and my students (who don't know the joy yet) happier than to have enough copies of the book, so that each student has the chance to fall in love with a timeless play that still resonates in the present day. Help me continue my work as a reading match-maker with your donation. Thank you so much for your help!

Ms. Kelley Wolcott Brooklyn School - Collab Studies Grades 9-12

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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.

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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
A Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansberry, Robert Nemiroff (Introduction) • Barnes and Noble $6.30 80 $504.00

Materials cost

$504.00

Vendor shipping charges

 $50.40

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.56

Fulfillment labor & materials

$9.00

Total project cost

$570.96

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$125.33

Total project goal

$696.29

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $696.29

7 Donors

-$342.66

Donations toward project cost

-$285.48

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$57.18

match offer

-$348.15

Match offer toward project cost

-$285.48

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$62.67

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$5.49

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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