Give the gift of Zora!
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I teach 11th graders at Friendship Academy of Engineering and Technology in Baltimore, Maryland. My students have goals to go to college and are determined to have a successful junior year. I'm trying to do everything in my power to make that happen.
FAET is a Title I and Turnaround school. Add the budget cuts to the equation and you can imagine the struggle we're having in getting everything our students need. We weren't able to purchase new books for the ELA curriculum this year and when I checked our book room for the novel I'll be teaching next quarter, I saw that we barely have enough for a classroom set. This means my students have to share the books and I won't be able to let them take books out of the classroom.
Sure, the kids can pair up and get through a chapter or two together; but what message does this send? They deserve to have at least one book to call their own. They deserve the opportunity to highlight, underline, and dog-ear any page they want. They should be able to take the book out of the classroom to read before practice, on the bus, and at home with their feet up on the coffee table.
My goal is to purchase 50 brand new copies of Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God and a fresh highlighter to go with each book. Ideally, I'd like to gift wrap each book to build up the excitement.
To support learning, I also want to purchase the audiobook and a few reams of printer paper.
My classes are set to read Chapter 1 on November 27th. I want to post pictures of the ripped wrapping paper, smiles, and READING on November 28th!
Please give my students the gift of Zora and help foster a lifelong love for reading! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
FAET is a Title I and Turnaround school. Add the budget cuts to the equation and you can imagine the struggle we're having in getting everything our students need. We weren't able to purchase new books for the ELA curriculum this year and when I checked our book room for the novel I'll be teaching next quarter, I saw that we barely have enough for a classroom set. This means my students have to share the books and I won't be able to let them take books out of the classroom.
Sure, the kids can pair up and get through a chapter or two together; but what message does this send? They deserve to have at least one book to call their own. They deserve the opportunity to highlight, underline, and dog-ear any page they want. They should be able to take the book out of the classroom to read before practice, on the bus, and at home with their feet up on the coffee table.
My goal is to purchase 50 brand new copies of Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God and a fresh highlighter to go with each book. Ideally, I'd like to gift wrap each book to build up the excitement.
To support learning, I also want to purchase the audiobook and a few reams of printer paper.
My classes are set to read Chapter 1 on November 27th. I want to post pictures of the ripped wrapping paper, smiles, and READING on November 28th!
Please give my students the gift of Zora and help foster a lifelong love for reading! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
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Tuere Ganges
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Baltimore, MD
