Ladder of Prejudice Book Club Project

$400! WOW!
I couldn't believe it when I woke up this morning and saw that we reached $400. I can't express how grateful we are to all of you for your support. We have spent most of this year encouraging independent reading. My students have spent over 500 minutes in class reading a book of their choice. Giving students that kind of ownership does amazing things for their academic confidence. We have each spent a lot of our own money buying high-interest, current books for students, and your support will impact students for many years.

One of the books we hope to use in our next unit is the new John Green novel Turtles All The Way Down. It is written from the perspective of a teen girl with OCD- which the author also has struggled with since he was a child. I am hoping students can begin to think about the stigma of mental illness, particularly those that are viewed more as a joke than a serious illness.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/10/10/books/john-green-anxiety-obsessive-compulsive-disorder.html?referer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F