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Mr. J from Los Angeles CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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AP Materials Needed for Highly Motivated Inner-City Students

My students need flash cards and study guides to help them overcome the challenge of the Advanced Placement curriculum.

  • $859 goal

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This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Students

I teach at an inner-city high school in Los Angeles in a rough neighborhood that suffers from many of the problems that the media tend to emphasize: drugs, gangs, poverty, and high-unemployment. Yet in the midst of these tribulations a group of students have managed to transcend these problems.

The students at my school are the children of Latino immigrants or even immigrants themselves and they are focused on academic achievement and professional success.

Like virtually every ethnic group before them – Irish, Germans, Swedes, Italians – they have been drawn to America because they simply want a better life for their families. They want to go to college and earn the degrees that will help them attain professional careers: they want to be engineers, doctors, business executives and all the other professions that young people everywhere typically aspire to. They are deeply respectful of their school and their teachers, and they are fully engaged in their education. For example, some of my previous AP students are attending UCLA, UC Berkeley, UC Santa Barbara and other top-tier schools. We also send students to the Culinary Institute of America and the Fashion Institute of Merchandising through our culinary arts and fashion design programs.

My Project

My students need this study guide and the flash cards to accompany the collegiate textbook required by my district for this course. One of heir biggest challenges is reading and comprehending academic material. Since the textbook is written for college students without the guide they have a severely diminished chance of success on the AP Exam. The guide highlights specific themes and important points in each section, which greatly increases student access to the material. The guide also contains multiple choice questions and primary source questions, which facilitates student understanding and retention of the material. Since the students get to keep the study guide, they can make notes and flag pages for easier review.

Success in the Advanced Placement program for high school students is one of the factors that college admissions counselors consider when they evaluate applicants.

The study guides and flash cards I am requesting for my students will allow them access to the material that they will need to know not only for this class, but also for subsequent AP classes. The more AP classes my students take and the more success they achieve the more attractive they will be to college admissions officers.

Mr. J
Grades 9-12

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Essential AP World History (flashcards) • AKJ Books $14.81 4 $59.24
5 Steps to a 5 AP English Language, 2010 edition • AKJ Books $18.95 30 $568.50

Materials cost

$627.74

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $57.44

3rd party payment processing fee

$9.42

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$729.60

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$128.75

Total project goal

$858.35

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $858.35

6 Donors

-$838.94

Donations toward project cost

-$729.60

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$109.34

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$19.41

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