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Ms. Henderson from Friars Point MS is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Hola Mexico!

My students need 40 copies of Esperanza Rising for our novel study!

  • $300 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

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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

What do you know about Mexico? Well, for my entering sixth grades, not a whole lot. In social studies my students are charged with learning and understanding the Mexican culture, and what better way to do it than with a fun novel!

My students come from a small town with one school in it.

Most of them rarely leave the town they live and have never left the state, let alone the country. My students come from a low income area where the school is just like everything else in the town, small and a little run down.

My Project

My students are charged with improving their skills in both English and Social Studies. My students have a hard time focusing on learning about foreign places when they see no relation to their own lives. This novel will allow my students to improve their reading skills, expand their knowledge about Mexico, and also realize the common thread of humanity found in every person, whether you are a kid in a small town in the South or a young girl from Mexico.

This project is important for my students to see the value of other cultures as well as the common human experience.

In a place where everyone looks the same and foreign is scary this will open my students eyes to the commonality found among us all and make it a little less frightening.

Ms. Henderson
Grades 6-8

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Where Your Donation Goes

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Esperanza Rising • AKJ Books $5.17 40 $206.80

Materials cost

$206.80

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $14.48

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.10

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$254.38

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$44.89

Total project goal

$299.27

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $299.27

4 Donors

-$298.39

Donations toward project cost

-$254.38

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$44.01

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$0.88

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 $0.00

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