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Ms. Gilchrist from Sardis MS is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Books In The Hands Of Every Student

My students need 62 copies of "Their Eyes Were Watching God" to take home; it is crucial to hold 16-17 year-olds accountable for reading at home!

  • $1,000 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

My students approach the acquisition of books with indignation. They are hard to come by here. Please help me to show them that books are about the relationship you develop with the story, & that they are capable of engaging with a book & completing assignments on their own outside of class.

My students attend a small high school of about 400 in rural north Mississippi.

They are mostly African-American, ages 16-17. The county is very poor and plagued with drug use and gang violence. We already have lost a student to gang violence this year.

My Project

We will read Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were Watching God as a junior class. I am excited to explore the themes of gender and race, and to discuss the writer's background following our reading of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. If every student has their own copy, we will be able to use class time to explore the story through out-of-the-box activities, such as acting out scenes in class.

This project is a critical first step in building full sets of books in my high school's "Book Room" so that each child can engage with a text the way that most high schoolers in our country do: on their own.

The first step in creating an "I can read this" book culture is putting books in the hands of every single student. I can tell them every day that they are capable, blossoming readers, but until they have books in their hands, they simply won't believe it.

Ms. Gilchrist
Grades 9-12

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Their Eyes Were Watching God • Amazon $12.18 62 $755.16

Materials cost

$755.16

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $52.86

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.33

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$849.35

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$149.89

Total project goal

$999.24

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $999.24

26 Donors

-$753.82

Donations toward project cost

-$657.25

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$96.57

match offer

-$226.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$192.10

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$33.90

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$19.42

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 $0.00

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