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Mrs. DiVincenzo from Los Angeles, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Traveling Through Our Imaginations

Help me give my students books to read in their English classes and in reading clubs.

  • $592 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

Our middle school is on Skid Row in Downtown Los Angeles. My students encourage me daily with their unending resolve, continual resilience, and strength of will. They are so starved for knowledge and they have a great desire to learn, despite many traumatic circumstances. Truly, they are my inspiration.

Many students at our school are lacking meaningful interactions with texts.

There is a shortage of class sets of novels at our school, and students struggle to stay engaged because they have to share books. Each child in my classes wants to learn, and I am raising funds for student book clubs and content English Language Arts classes.

I fully believe that when we match students with the right book, it can spark a love that lasts a lifetime. Literacy is power. Words create meaning. We can give this power to these under-served students, and create inquisitive, voracious readers--readers who crave to discover their newest adventure, and readers who can serve their families and communities.

My Project

My students must be able to read and write at grade level in order to feel successful at school, and because of their circumstances, many cannot. They're falling farther behind each day, and ONE interesting story can change everything. I want to share the love of reading and discovery with them through novel study and book clubs. Please consider the following data:

The consequences of not reading although you are able to are only marginally less frightening than those arising from illiteracy itself.

(Crompton, 1980, p. 80)

If we teach a child to read, yet develop not the taste for reading, all of our teaching is for naught. We shall have produced a nation of ‘illiterate literates’–those who know how to read but do not read. (Huck, 1973, p.305)

Young people who cannot read at all are far outnumbered by young people who can read (poorly or well) but won’t. The latter, who choose not to read, for whatever reason, have little advantage over those who are illiterate. (Holbrook, 1983, p. 38)

Mrs. DiVincenzo Para Los Ninos Middle Charter School Grades 6-8

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 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

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Chains (The Seeds of America Trilogy) • Amazon Business $8.19 30 $245.70
The Giver (Giver Quartet) • Amazon Business $7.69 15 $115.35
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl • Amazon Business $5.99 11 $65.89

Materials cost

$426.94

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $39.07

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.40

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$502.41

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$88.66

Total project goal

$591.07

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $591.07

3 Donors

-$591.07

Donations toward project cost

-$502.41

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$88.66

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