My students are in tenth and eleventh grades, and have a passion for the arts. Our public charter school gives students the opportunity to spend half of their day in one of the following majors: Theatre, Dance, Visual Arts, Literary Arts, Figure Skating, Instrumental Music, and Vocal. The other half of their day is in academic classes, including my English class.
We are a public charter school, and auditions to our school are academically blind - students are accepted solely based on artistic audition, and as such, we have students of all academic levels, just like a traditional public school.
Our students are passionate about their arts and this passion transfers to their academic classes. We are ranked as the #1 best high school for the Arts in the state of Pennsylvania (niche.com), and are ranked as the top performer in our region on the state English assessment and have received the designations as a Title I Reward School: High Achievement two years in a row.
My Project
In my English class, students show great interest in reading when I can provide high-interest books; however, without a school library, this has been a project of the classroom teachers. (Project photo is of our current "library.") While we attempt to find books as best we can for our students, cost is a limiting factor - as a public charter school, we receive a fraction of the funding that a traditional public school receives and often have to rely on support from outside organizations and funding. Books, along with furniture to facilitate reading the classroom, are a much needed addition to my classroom.
Many of my stronger readers will obtain books that interest them on their own, however, most of my struggling readers don’t even know where to begin.
Having these books readily available for the students would allow them to fully embrace our independent reading initiative that has been limited due to a lack of books. In addition to books, I am requesting bean bag chairs, two soft carpets, and a bookshelf to create a reading "nook" in my classroom. These items together will help to facilitate an atmosphere that will encourage my students to read!
More than a third 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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$27.99
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$55.98
Book Shelf 9 Cube 4 Tier Bookcase - Bookshelf Storage Bins
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$36.99
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$36.99
Divergent Series Four-Book Paperback Box Set: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant, Four
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$29.36
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$29.36
The Maze Runner Series (Maze Runner)
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$26.99
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The Hunger Games Box Set: Foil Edition
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$21.87
1
$21.87
Little Fires Everywhere (Random House Large Print)
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$18.26
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$18.26
Small Great Things: A Novel
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$17.18
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$17.18
Turtles All the Way Down
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$11.97
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The Nightingale: A Novel
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$11.59
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
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$11.58
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The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
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$11.12
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$11.12
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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$10.64
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$10.64
The Book Thief
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$10.39
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$10.39
House Rules: A Novel
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$10.30
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$10.30
The Storyteller
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$9.98
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All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel
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$9.98
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$9.98
Day: A Novel
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$9.93
1
$9.93
1984
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$9.41
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$9.41
The Help
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$9.29
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Official Guides to the Appalachian Trail)
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$9.07
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$9.07
I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition)
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$9.06
1
$9.06
002: Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (Pantheon Graphic Novels)
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$8.88
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$8.88
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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$8.79
1
$8.79
Another Day
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$8.73
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$8.73
Water for Elephants: A Novel
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$8.68
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$8.68
Pretties (Uglies)
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$8.31
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Extras (Uglies)
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$8.13
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Every Day
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Looking for Alaska
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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An Abundance of Katherines
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Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Pantheon Graphic Novels)
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$7.20
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Uglies
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$6.89
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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
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$5.94
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$5.94
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Pantheon Graphic Novels)
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$5.62
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$5.62
Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog
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$4.87
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Hidden Figures Young Readers' Edition
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$4.86
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
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Monster
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Materials cost
$625.82
Vendor shipping charges
FREE
Sales tax
$0.00
3rd party payment processing fee
$9.39
Fulfillment labor & materials
$30.00
Total project cost
$665.21
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
$117.39
Total project goal
$782.60
How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal
$782.60
6 Donors
-$782.60
Donations toward project cost
-$665.21
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