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All Hands on Human Rights!

My students need 45 history and humanities titles, including "Safe Area Gorazde: The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995" and "Malcolm X: A Graphic Biography".

  • $873 goal

This project expired on August 12, 2010.

This project expired on August 12, 2010.

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Ms. C.
Grades 9-12

My Students

"Why are we doing this?!" is a common refrain in high school classrooms. History and Human Rights often feel abstract to young people, especially those who haven't been given ways to understand their importance. This project will use high interest books to engage students on these topics.

My students are bright and thoughtful young people who struggle to access the curriculum presented in their classes without the appropriate scaffolds and supplemental materials.

My students have learning disabilities ranging from dyslexia to emotional disturbance. They are growing scholars whose imaginations and ideas soar when provided structure and accessible, relevant content. They are from low-income, inner city neighborhoods and most live in single-parent households. Some of the students are English Language learners, and some are in foster care. Though talented in many ways, these students struggle with reading fluency and comprehension. In many cases, they enter ninth grade with third or fourth grade reading skills. These students participate in a full-inclusion model of special education, which allows them to learn alongside their peers in a rigorous, college preparatory school in California, but with extensive, supplemental support.

My Project

The texts selected from Barnes and Noble were specifically chosen to reflect the core curriculum being taught at our school. They are meant to present context as well as in-depth analysis. They were selected with the intent of extending and deepening the access that students with disabilities have to the intersection of History and Human Rights, including immigrants rights, prisons, youth rights, and human rights situations worldwide. In many cases, these students have family who are in prison and / or who come from Central America and the Middle East. The books selected are meant to reflect those personal connections. Additionally, student access to this content will be achieved through the purchase of relevant graphic novels and CD collections.

Your support is crucial for this project for two reasons.

The first is that my students do not currently have materials that enable them to access and absorb this content. In this way, they have been deeply affected by California's budget cuts to education. Second, your contribution will offer students the opportunity to make personal connections, and to use History and Human Rights to better understand current events and how they affect their own context and situation.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

40 students impacted
Ms. C. Grades 9-12

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

40 students impacted

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Human Rights Watch World Report 2007 Human Rights Watch • Barnes and Noble $21.60 1 $21.60
Human Rights Adela Soliz • Barnes and Noble $24.07 1 $24.07
Human Rights Watch World Report 2008 Human Rights Watch, Human Rights Watch (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $21.60 1 $21.60
Human Rights Watch World Report 2006 Manufactured by Seven Stories Press • Barnes and Noble $21.60 1 $21.60
Human Rights Watch World Report 2009 Seven Stories • Barnes and Noble $21.37 1 $21.37
The Human Rights Watch Global Report on Prisons Human Rights Watch Staff (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $18.00 1 $18.00
We Are All Born Free: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Pictures With Amnesty International • Barnes and Noble $14.36 1 $14.36
Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor Paul Farmer, Foreword by Amartya K. Sen • Barnes and Noble $13.64 1 $13.64
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa Adam Hochschild • Barnes and Noble $10.60 1 $10.60
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn • Barnes and Noble $16.34 1 $16.34
Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan Greg Mortenson • Barnes and Noble $15.75 1 $15.75
Our Word Is Our Weapon Subcomandante Marcos, Dante • Barnes and Noble $12.78 1 $12.78
Our Word Is Our Weapon: Selected Writings of Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos, Juana Ponce de Leon (Editor), Foreword by Jose Saramago • Barnes and Noble $21.33 1 $21.33
World Report 2010 Manufactured by Human Rights Watch • Barnes and Noble $18.00 1 $18.00
The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Life in the Balance Amnesty International, Amnesty International (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $6.25 1 $6.25
Freedom's Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Stories Ellen Levine • Barnes and Noble $7.19 1 $7.19
Warriors Don't Cry Melba Pattillo Beals • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
Survivors: True Stories Of Children In The Holocaust Allan Zullo, Mara Bovsun • Barnes and Noble $4.49 1 $4.49
The Diary of a Young Girl B.M. Mooyaart, B. M. Mooyaart (Translator), Eleanor Roosevelt (Introduction) • Barnes and Noble $5.39 1 $5.39
I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing up in the Holocaust Livia Bitton-Jackson • Barnes and Noble $5.39 1 $5.39
Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl David Kherdian • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
Ivan the Terrible: Tsar of Death Sean Price • Barnes and Noble $5.35 1 $5.35
Catherine the Great: Empress of Russia Zu Vincent • Barnes and Noble $5.35 1 $5.35
I Want To Live: The Diary of a Young Girl in Stalin's Russia Nina Lugovskaya, Andrew Bromfield (Translator), Anne Fine (Introduction) • Barnes and Noble $14.53 1 $14.53
Behind The Secret Window: A Memoir of A Hidden Childhood During World War Two Nelly Toll • Barnes and Noble $5.39 1 $5.39
The Secret of Priest's Grotto: A Holocaust Survival Story Peter Lane Taylor, With Christos Nicola • Barnes and Noble $8.05 1 $8.05
The Endless Steppe: Growing up in Siberia Esther Hautzig • Barnes and Noble $5.39 1 $5.39
Lenin C. Read • Barnes and Noble $22.18 1 $22.18
Russian Revolution, 1917 Jim Whiting • Barnes and Noble $26.95 1 $26.95
Joseph Stalin: Dictator of the Soviet Union Brenda Haugen • Barnes and Noble $31.14 1 $31.14
Amos Fortune, Free Man Elizabeth Yates, Nora S. Unwin (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
Rigoberta Menchu: Defending Human Rights in Guatemala Michael Silverstone, Foreword by Charlotte Bunch • Barnes and Noble $11.07 2 $22.14
Nelson Mandela: "No Easy Walk to Freedom" Barry Denenberg • Barnes and Noble $4.49 1 $4.49
Frederick Douglass: Young Defender of Human Rights Elisabeth P. Myers, Cathy Morrison (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $13.63 1 $13.63
Impact of the Holocaust Linda Jacobs Jacobs Altman • Barnes and Noble $23.69 1 $23.69
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood Marjane Satrapi • Barnes and Noble $9.32 1 $9.32
Maus: A Survivor's Tale Volume 1: My Father Bleeds History Art Spiegelman, Tom Engelhardt (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $10.76 1 $10.76
Maus: A Survivor's Tale Volume 2: And Here My Troubles Began Art Spiegelman • Barnes and Noble $10.76 1 $10.76
Footnotes in Gaza Joe Sacco • Barnes and Noble $21.56 1 $21.56
A People's History of American Empire Howard Zinn, Paul Buhle, Mike Konopacki • Barnes and Noble $13.44 1 $13.44
The Photographer: Into War-Torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders Emmanuel Guibert, Frederic Lemercier, Didier Lefevre, Alexis Siegel (Translator) • Barnes and Noble $21.56 1 $21.56
The United States Constitution: A Graphic Adaptation Jonathan Hennessey, Aaron McConnell (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $12.66 1 $12.66
A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge Josh Neufeld • Barnes and Noble $17.96 2 $35.92
Malcolm X: A Graphic Biography Andrew Helfer (Editor), Randy DuBurke (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $11.48 1 $11.48
Safe Area Gorazde: The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995 Joe Sacco, Christopher Hitchens (Introduction) • Barnes and Noble $14.90 1 $14.90

Materials cost

$649.26

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $47.07

3rd party payment processing fee

$9.74

Fulfillment labor & materials

$9.00

Total project cost

$715.07

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$156.97

Total project goal

$872.04

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