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Ms. White from Lafayette IN is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Social Justice Library

My students need a mini-library of books about social justice themed topics to read and complete a project.

  • $463 goal

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My Students

My students live day to day experiences of inequality in their world. Sometimes they feel like they do not have anyone to relate to. A social justice library would not only give the students someone/something to relate to but also encourage them to read by providing them with relevant material.

My students are racially and economically diverse.

Many of them were born into experiences that set them up for academic failure. Although they attend high school, many of them are lucky if they can read at a middle school level. Additionally, because their reading level is so far below their actual grade, many of them hate reading and are discouraged from even trying it. One thing most of my students have in common, however, is the desire to change their life experiences for the better. In class we talk about how the ONLY way to improve their life situation is to further their education.

My Project

By giving my students a library of books about people who have also experienced challenges and conquered social injustices, I hope to not only motivate them to read, but also show them how other people have overcome adversities. As often as I can, I incorporate excerpts and examples from books in this library into my day to day curriculum. With a social justice library, each of my students could read a book about a social justice related issue and do a project teaching their community of peers about issues such as these. It is important to me that students learn about social injustices so that they are inspired to act on them in the future to perpetuate social justice. The action piece not only benefits their lives as individuals but also benefits society and the world in which they live at large.

A social justice library will provide my students with relevant books of interest to their lives and help boost literacy skills by giving students opportunities to practice reading.

The reality is that some of my student have never been read to by an adult. Please provide these resources so that I can be that adult and so they can become their own advocates of a better life by furthering their education.

Ms. White
Grades 9-12

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier Ishmael Beah • Barnes and Noble $8.64 1 $8.64
A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League Ron Suskind • Barnes and Noble $11.51 1 $11.51
Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe • Barnes and Noble $7.92 1 $7.92
The Color Purple Alice Walker, Andre Bernard (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $10.76 1 $10.76
The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them The Freedom Writers, With Erin Gruwell, Foreword by Zlata Filipovic • Barnes and Noble $10.79 1 $10.79
The Outsiders S. E. Hinton • Barnes and Noble $7.20 1 $7.20
Night Elie Wiesel, Marion Wiesel (Translator), Preface by Elie Wiesel • Barnes and Noble $8.95 1 $8.95
Animal Farm George Orwell, C. M. Woodhouse (Introduction), Preface by Russell Baker • Barnes and Noble $8.99 1 $8.99
A Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansberry, Robert Nemiroff (Introduction) • Barnes and Noble $6.30 1 $6.30
Civil Disobedience Henry David Thoreau, Henry Thoreau • Barnes and Noble $7.96 1 $7.96
The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale Art Spiegelman, Fred Jordon (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $25.20 1 $25.20
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America Barbara Ehrenreich • Barnes and Noble $10.08 1 $10.08
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations about Race Beverly Tatum • Barnes and Noble $11.48 1 $11.48
Son of Hamas: A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue, and Unthinkable Choices Mosab Hassan Yousef, With Ron Brackin • Barnes and Noble $15.78 1 $15.78
The Amistad Revolt: Memory, Slavery, and the Politics of Identity in the United States and Sierra Leone Iyunolu Folayan Osagie • Barnes and Noble $20.65 1 $20.65
African Voices of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Beyond the Silence and the Shame Anne C. Bailey • Barnes and Noble $14.40 1 $14.40
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies Bartolome de Las Casas, Nigel Griffin (Translator), Anthony Pagden (Introduction) • Barnes and Noble $10.12 1 $10.12
Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools Jonathan Kozol • Barnes and Noble $10.76 1 $10.76
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Michelle Alexander • Barnes and Noble $16.34 1 $16.34
Black Like Me John Howard Griffin, Robert Bonazzi (Afterword), Epilogue by John Howard Griffin • Barnes and Noble $7.19 1 $7.19
The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini • Barnes and Noble $10.80 1 $10.80
The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane • Barnes and Noble $3.15 1 $3.15
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne • Barnes and Noble $3.55 1 $3.55
The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck, Robert DeMott • Barnes and Noble $11.52 1 $11.52
Voices of A People's History of the United States Howard Zinn, Anthony Arnove • Barnes and Noble $18.70 1 $18.70
A Lesson before Dying Ernest J. Gaines • Barnes and Noble $9.36 1 $9.36
Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston, Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Afterword), Foreword by Edwidge Danticat • Barnes and Noble $10.79 1 $10.79
Native Son Richard Wright, Arnold Rampersad (Introduction) • Barnes and Noble $10.79 1 $10.79
Beloved Toni Morrison • Barnes and Noble $10.80 1 $10.80
Forged by Fire (Hazelwood High Trilogy #2) Sharon M. Draper • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
Tears of a Tiger (Hazelwood High Trilogy #1) Sharon M. Draper • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
Darkness Before Dawn (Hazelwood High Trilogy #3) Sharon M. Draper • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee • Barnes and Noble $7.19 1 $7.19
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Mildred D. Taylor • Barnes and Noble $7.19 1 $7.19
Angry Black White Boy Adam Mansbach • Barnes and Noble $11.07 1 $11.07

Materials cost

$364.80

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.47

Fulfillment labor & materials

$9.00

Total project cost

$379.27

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$83.25

Total project goal

$462.52

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $462.52

5 Donors

-$462.52

Donations toward project cost

-$379.27

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$83.25

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