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Mrs. Bo from San Leandro, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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The Hate U Give: Deconstructing THUG

Help me give my students an engaging, relevant text to study this year! Extra credit for those who see the movie.

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My Students

This year I am co-teaching two amazing 9th grade English classes! I am supporting the class as the Resource Specialist, meaning I support the general education teacher in her curriculum and help scaffold it to ensure that ALL students are learning to the best of their abilities!

My classes are a mix of typically-developing students and those on the spectrum, with specific learning disabilities including auditory and visual processing challenges, students with ADHD, and those with cognitive delays.

The 2018-19 freshman classes have turned out to be high-skilled and ready to learn this year... making them incredibly fun and exciting to both teach and modify for. It's been such a great learning experience discussing my own challenges of being a teacher with ADHD, and relating to each other and building an environment full of trust and understanding. We are channeling our high energy into engaging curriculum and activities to tap into their kinesthetic learning style and to get the most out of each day!

My Project

Shakespeare, Steinbeck, Salinger, Orwell, and Golding. Classic authors that we have all read, and that we English teachers love to teach. We discuss about universal themes, metaphors and similes, and foreshadowing. Those men, and those books, have taught us a lot.

But it's 2018 in the Bay Area, and my kids are not relating easily to Macbeth's plight for kingship because some spooky witches foretold it-- they are too focused on news stories of young black men getting shot in their own homes and back yards, getting the cops called on them at the park or the library, or beaten in their cells.

The Hate U Give is a novel that addresses the themes and realities of their every day lives. My kids see themselves in the main character Starr, dealing with witnessing the murder of her friend, and trying to decide how much of herself to really show to her friends. They see themselves in her white boyfriend Chris, who gets that he doesn't get it-- but loves her anyway. They see themselves in her friends who struggle with racism, both giving and getting it.

We won't be getting rid of the classics-- but adding a relevant young adult novel to our repertoire that is both easy to read and incredibly complex, just like the Black Lives Matter movement itself, is-- I feel-- one of the most important things I can do for my kids.

Mrs. Bo San Leandro High School Grades 9-12

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San Leandro, CA View local requests

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
The Hate U Give • AKJ Education $12.18 60 $730.80

Materials cost

$730.80

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$66.87

3rd party payment processing fee

$10.96

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$838.63

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$147.99

Total project goal

$986.62

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$986.62

6 Donors

-$462.72

Donations toward project cost

-$401.07

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$61.65

match offer

-$514.78

Match offer toward project cost

-$437.56

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$77.22

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$9.13

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$0.00

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