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This request is funding for a copy of his book for every English Language Arts and Humanities middle and high school classroom in the Beaverton School District.
My name is Martina Pedersen, and I teach ELA (English Language Arts) and AVID at Aloha High School. I have a copy of Alter Wiener's "64735 From a Name to a Number" in my classroom library, but I am the only one in my building with the book. Alter Wiener, passing away earlier this week, spent many of his hours sharing his message to nearly 1000 different audiences. His mission was to keep Holocaust education continuing in the classroom. (Alter quoted the NY Times, saying 11% of Americans don't know about the Holocaust, with several people even dying it ever happened.) Ninth grade students at Aloha read Elie Wiesel's book Night, but students new to Aloha may not get that experience. (We have lots of mobility in the district.) Thus, Holocaust instruction needs to continue, and with these books in our classroom library, students will have the opportunity to read Mr. Wiener's book. When we teach "choice book" reading with classroom libraries, we give book talks each day and allow kids to read for 10-15 minutes. Then they present their book in "book talks" and do other projects. Additionally, there are recorded interviews and teaching materials on Teacher Source (a sharing space within our district) for our professional instruction.
The book costs $11.51 plus S/H, I am requesting $2500, to supply all 200 classrooms with the book.
With that, the books can be added in classroom libraries to keep his message alive.
This project is supported by the Beaverton Education Foundation.
Founded in 1988, the Beaverton Education Foundation raises money to provide hands-on innovative academic enrichment and advancement programs & projects that go beyond normal school funding at all Beaverton public schools and is a 501(c)(3) community-based nonprofit organization. BEF mobilizes community resources to fund innovative classroom, summer and after-school programs.
In the event that this project does not reach its goal, BEF may apply the funds received to another project in need.
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