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Mrs. King from Bayside NY is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Book Walking Through the Eastern Hemisphere

In order to complete a "Book Walk", my students will need 45 non-fiction (research) books about a variety of topics from the ancient civilizations and modern day civilizations of the Eastern Hemisphere. These include the civilizations of the Early Man era, Egypt, The Middle East, Greece, Rome, Asia, India, Middle Ages Time Period, Africa and India.

  • $910 goal

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My students love to "WALK" through books. I am a sixth grade CORE teacher in NY. I teach a combination of English and Social Studies to my students. Although the area in which we come from is a typical middle class, there are many obstacles my students face in these hard economic times. And unfortunately, being part of the New York City School System, our school is NOT rewarded much funding as a middle class environment.

My students enjoy the methodology of teaching themselves. They appreciate the idea of opening a book and exploring different facts and ideas for themselves. I would love to guide them in the process of learning our sixth grade social studies curriculum of Ancient Civilizations, doing just that...teaching themselves! However, there is not enough resource books in our classroom library to accomplish this goal.

I would greatly appreciate if donors would supply our classroom with the necessary tools to allow my students the opportunity to teach themselves. I would need a tremendous amount of research books about the ancient civilization and the modern day civilizations of The Eastern Hemisphere.

I hope that you understand how valuable an opportunity this will be for my students. We are aware that there are many projects submitted and that you ultimately have the choice. It is in great hopes that you are willing to buy some research books to help students "Walk" to an interesting and successful school year!

Mrs. King
Grades 6-8

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Eyewitness Travel Guide: Tokyo DK Publishing, Contribution by Emi Kazuko, Contribution by Stephen Mansfield • Barnes and Noble $18.00 1 $18.00
Eyewitness Travel Guides: India DK Publishing, Abha Narain Lamba • Barnes and Noble $27.00 1 $27.00
Eyewitness Travel China Staff of DK Publishing Inc • Barnes and Noble $27.00 1 $27.00
Eyewitness Travel Rome DK Publishing • Barnes and Noble $20.00 1 $20.00
Europe (DK Eyewitness Travel Guides Series) Manufactured by Dorling-Kindersley • Barnes and Noble $27.00 1 $27.00
Eyewitness Travel Guide: Greece - Athens and the Mainland DK Publishing • Barnes and Noble $22.50 1 $22.50
Islam (Eyewitness Books Series) Philip Wilkinson, DK Publishing, Manufactured by DK Publishing • Barnes and Noble $14.39 1 $14.39
Eyewitness Travel Guide: Jerusalem and the Holy Land Fabrizio Ardito (Editor), Cristina Gambaro (Editor), Massimo Acanfora Torrefranca (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $20.00 1 $20.00
Eyewitness Travel Egypt Jane Dunford (Editor), Joann Fletcher (Editor), Carole French (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $20.00 1 $20.00
Eyewitness Mesopotamia Philip Steele • Barnes and Noble $14.39 1 $14.39
Olympics (Eyewitness Books Series) Chris Oxlade, David Ballheimer • Barnes and Noble $14.39 1 $14.39
Eyewitness: India Manini Chatterjee, Anita Roy • Barnes and Noble $14.39 1 $14.39
Eyewitness Travel Guide: Japan John Hart Benson (Editor), Jon Burbank (Editor), Mark Brazil (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $22.50 1 $22.50
Pyramid (DK Eyewitness Series) James Putnam, Peter Hayman (Photographer), Geoff Brightling (Photographer) • Barnes and Noble $14.39 1 $14.39
Ancient Greece Anne Pearson, Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff • Barnes and Noble $17.99 1 $17.99
Early Humans (Eyewitness Books Series) Phil Wilkinson (Editor), Manufactured by DK Publishing • Barnes and Noble $14.39 1 $14.39
Mummy James Putnam, DK Publishing, Manufactured by DK Publishing • Barnes and Noble $14.39 1 $14.39
The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness Ancient Rome Jon E. Lewis (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $12.55 1 $12.55
Religion (Eyewitness Books Series) Myrtle Langley, Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff • Barnes and Noble $14.39 1 $14.39
Fossil (Eyewitness Books Series) Paul D. Taylor, DK Publishing, Manufactured by DK Publishing • Barnes and Noble $17.99 1 $17.99
Eyewitness China Hugh Sebag-Montefiore, Zhou Xun • Barnes and Noble $14.39 1 $14.39
Eyewitness Workbooks: Ancient Greece Kate Scarborough • Barnes and Noble $8.99 1 $8.99
DK Readers: Secrets of the Mummies (Level 4: Proficient Readers) Harriet Griffey • Barnes and Noble $3.59 1 $3.59
The Crusades Through Arab Eyes Amin Maalouf, Jon Rothschild • Barnes and Noble $15.25 1 $15.25
Viking (Eyewitness Books Series) Susan M. Margeson, Peter Anderson (Photographer) • Barnes and Noble $14.39 1 $14.39
Eyewitness: Battle Richard Holmes, Geoff Dann (Photographer), Geoff Brightling (Photographer) • Barnes and Noble $14.39 1 $14.39
Eyewitness Workbooks: Ancient Egypt Jen Green • Barnes and Noble $8.99 1 $8.99
Eyewitness Ancient Rome DK Publishing • Barnes and Noble $8.99 1 $8.99
Ancient Rome Simon James • Barnes and Noble $14.39 1 $14.39
Ancient China (Eyewitness Books Series) Arthur Cotterell, Geoff Brightling (Photographer), Alan Hills (Photographer) • Barnes and Noble $14.39 1 $14.39
Eyewitness Ancient Greece Anne Pearson • Barnes and Noble $14.39 1 $14.39
Eyewitness Ancient Egypt George Hart • Barnes and Noble $14.39 1 $14.39
You Wouldn't Want to Be a Sumerian Slave!: A Life of Hard Labor You'd Rather Avoid Jacqueline Morley, David Antram (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $26.10 1 $26.10
You Wouldn't Want to Be a Slave in Ancient Greece!: A Life You'd Rather Not Have Fiona MacDonald, David Antram (Illustrator), Created by David Salariya • Barnes and Noble $8.95 1 $8.95
You Wouldn't Want to Be a Mammoth Hunter!: Dangerous Beasts You'd Rather Not Encounter John Malam, David Antram (Illustrator), Created by David Salariya • Barnes and Noble $8.95 1 $8.95
You Wouldn't Want to Be in a Medieval Dungeon!: Prisoners You'd Rather Not Meet Fiona MacDonald, David Antram (Illustrator), Created by David Salariya • Barnes and Noble $8.95 1 $8.95
You Wouldn't Want to Be a Viking Explorer!: Voyages You'd Rather Not Make Andrew Langley, David Antram (Illustrator), Created by David Salariya • Barnes and Noble $8.95 1 $8.95
You Wouldn't Want to Be an Assyrian Soldier!: An Ancient Army You'd Rather Not Join (You Wouldn't Want to be Series) Rupert Matthews, David Antram (Illustrator), Created by David Salariya • Barnes and Noble $8.95 1 $8.95
You Wouldn't Want to Work on the Great Wall of China!: Defenses You'd Rather Not Build Jacqueline Morley, David Antram (Illustrator), Designed by David Salariya • Barnes and Noble $8.95 1 $8.95
You Wouldn't Want to Be a Sumerian Slave!: A Life of Hard Labor You'd Rather Avoid (You Wouldn't Want to Be Series) Jacqueline Morley, David Antram (Illustrator), Created by David Salariya • Barnes and Noble $8.95 1 $8.95
You Wouldn't Want to Be Cleopatra!: An Egyptian Ruler You'd Rather Not Be (You Wouldn't Want to Be Series) Jim Pipe, David Antram (Illustrator), Created by David Salariya • Barnes and Noble $8.95 1 $8.95
You Wouldn't Want to Be a Roman Soldier!: Barbarians You'd Rather Not Meet David Stewart, David Antram (Illustrator), Designed by David Salariya • Barnes and Noble $8.95 1 $8.95
You Wouldn?t Want to Be in Alexander the Great's Army! Miles You'd Rather Not March Jacqueline Morley, David Antram (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $8.95 1 $8.95
You Wouldn't Want to Be a Roman Gladiator!: Gory Things You'd Rather Not Know John Malam, David Antram (Illustrator), Created by David Salariya • Barnes and Noble $8.95 1 $8.95
You Wouldn't Want to Be an Egyptian Mummy!: Disgusting Things You'd Rather Not Know David Stewart, David Antram (Illustrator), Created by David Salariya • Barnes and Noble $8.95 1 $8.95

Materials cost

$647.69

Vendor shipping charges

$64.77

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$16.19

Fulfillment labor & materials

$17.00

Total project cost

$746.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$163.76

Total project goal

$909.76

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$909.76

19 Donors

-$438.65

Donations toward project cost

-$372.85

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$65.80

match offer

-$439.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$359.98

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$79.02

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$16.05

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$0.00

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