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Mrs. Brisentine from Farmville, VA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Mrs. Brisentine's classroom raised $544

Dear America: Teaching History to Middle Schoolers

My students need classroom sets of 2 Dear America book sets to help enrich the material and spark their interest more.

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Mrs. Brisentine Prince Edward Middle School
Farmville, VA Grades 6-8

My Students

Whenever a school year starts and I get my new students for the first time, they always seem to want to tell me stories about themselves. That gave me the idea of using stories from the view point of kids their age to help tell them a little more about history.

My students are a very vibrant and diverse group of 100 students who attend a low income, high poverty public school.

Their abilities range from way above grade level all the way to needed that extra boost to get them near grade level. Each student has their own personality, their own story, and often their own trial or struggle. School is often the only place these students get a chance to experiment and explore into the wonderful world of education. In our area, its not really cool to be smart but at least we can try to make it interesting. My students love to experiment with information and run with ideas.

My Project

These books will help to create and foster the idea that history is fun to learn and isn't boring. These books will let the students see situations from the eyes of 11 and 12 year old kids. Using these books, we will read about the events and then create our own journals to share how we see certain events in time. By getting one written from a girl's point of view and one from a boy's point of view will allow the students to experiment with that idea and try to write from that perspective. The students will get to see the differences in the way people see situations.

Our school started a new program where the entire school focuses on reading for a portion of the day, twice a week.

These books would be valuable for my students to use during that time and they could be used by other teachers as well to help enrich their students history knowledge. These books will help make history interesting and engaging. Please help my students, and my school, see the broader picture of history and how interesting it can be!

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Nearly all students from low‑income households

100 students impacted 9 donors
Mrs. Brisentine Prince Edward Middle School Grades 6-8

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Farmville, VA View local requests

Nearly all students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

100 students impacted 9donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Dear America: The Winter Of Red Snow Kristiana Gregory • AKJ Books $10.13 30 $303.90
Westward To Home: Joshua''s Oregon Trail Diary Pbk • AKJ Books $3.89 30 $116.70

Materials cost

$420.60

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.31

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$461.91

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$81.51

Total project goal

$543.42

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $543.42

7 Donors

-$518.42

Donations toward project cost

-$440.66

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$77.76

match offer

-$25.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$21.25

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$3.75

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 $0.00

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