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Mr. O'Neill from Leland MS is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Help my Class Better Understand Identity

My students need a class set of Sharon Flake's "The Skin I'm In" so that we can begin our unit on identity and self-esteem.

  • $296 goal

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Celebrate Black Teachers and Students

This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.

My Students

There are no funds for class copies of books this year. Help my class delve into issues of identity, self-esteem, and race by donating a class set of Sharon Flake's complex, personal, and inspirational novel The Skin I'm In.

My students are from a small town.

In small towns, people tend to talk. A lot. Especially in high school, it can become easy to lose perspective on why people say and do the things they do. I think this book would be a great way to show them that at the end of the day there is only on person you have to please and live with: yourself.

My Project

My kids deal with many of the issues that this book raises including skin tone, bullying, and abuse (both physical and verbal). The biases we have and the reasons for the choices we make are often hard to identify. This book puts those ideas into easily understood terms that will help start a conversation among my students that will last all year.

Although my students have come a long way already -- past negative experiences with literacy still hinder some of my students' ability to move forward.

Many have yet to find lasting joy in reading. This year I've dedicated myself to creating teaching units that analyze high-interest material that teens can relate to. There's nothing that lights a fire in my students more than when they draw a connection between what they are reading and their own lives.

Mr. O'Neill
Grades 9-12

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Skin I'm In Sharon Flake, Tk (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $6.83 30 $204.90

Materials cost

$204.90

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$14.34

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.07

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$257.31

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$38.45

Total project goal

$295.76

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$295.76

3 Donors

-$98.00

Donations toward project cost

-$85.26

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$12.74

match offer

-$197.76

Match offer toward project cost

-$172.05

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$25.71

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$0.00

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