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Teacher Ryder Duffey from Lake Mary, FL is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Time That We Recognized That Ours Was In Truth A Noble Cause

My students need 13 different Vietnam War resources, including 15 copies of "Bloods; An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans", "Eyewitness Book Series" titles and videos.

  • $521 goal

This project expired on July 21, 2010.

This project expired on July 21, 2010.

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Teacher Ryder Duffey Lake Mary High School
Lake Mary, FL Grades 9-12

My Students

It's funny that even though Vietnam happened in my lifetime, I don't remember much more than my mother crying when her cousin Bobby died. Vietnam-such a defining time in America- WWII is the "good" war while the Persian Gulf/Iraq are seen by others as "bad". Vietnam is that pivotal bridge of change. Critical thinking skills are essential in college.

I teach in an inner city classroom.

Most, if not all of my students have no frame of reference for Vietnam other than they have heard it terms of Iraq. I have students who want to learn and understand, but lack exposure to relevant materials to understand what is happening today and how the war thousands of miles away and 40 years ago in "Nam" still has such a profound effect on the American political scene and the American collective memory of the sixties and seventies. I don't have a high school library in my school, I don't have the resources I need to help the students really dig into all of the perspectives of this war and come to their conclusions about this war and this time period. Good history teachers let the student decide how and what should be remembered about critical and controversial times in history, they don't need to be told what to think, but instead provide them with materials so they can deliberate, reflect and decide what they think and believe and these are the skills needed in collge to be successful.

My Project

You will help my students look at Vietnam from so many angles, they will be able to glimpse the turmoil and patriotism, the earnestness, the fervor and the misunderstandings of the time. These materials will be used to teach students "center" style- meaning students move from station to station to read, share, make maps, look at letters, listen to protest and patriotic songs and read so they can slowly form a picture of what was happening in this time. I model my history class with inquiry based learning so that students can investigate history with a greater depth of knowledge. Being able to analyze and interpret primary sources will help students prepare for college.

Your support of this project will help my students begin the process of critical thinking and higher level learning so that they can be prepared for the college classroom.

Using primary sources and first hand accounts help bring history alive for students and prepare them for the learning styles found in the college classroom. Worksheets don't prepare students for college the way these materials will. No more spoon feeding of ideas like was done in elementary school, today's student has to examine and challenge what we know and think about history. Vietnam is too important just to be two sections of a history textbook, these materials will help student have vivid details of a complex and painful part of American History. Thank you for reading my proposal.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

More than half of students from low‑income households

70 students impacted
Teacher Ryder Duffey Lake Mary High School Grades 9-12

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Lake Mary, FL View local requests

More than half of 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

70 students impacted

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Vietnam War (Eyewitness Books Series) DK Publishing • Barnes and Noble $13.59 3 $40.77
Killing Zone: My Life in the Vietnam War Frederick Downs Jr. • Barnes and Noble $12.76 3 $38.28
Bloods; An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans Wallace Terry • Barnes and Noble $7.19 15 $107.85
The Things They Carried Tim O'Brien • Barnes and Noble $11.96 3 $35.88
The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam Bao Ninh, Frank Palmos (Translator), Phan T. Hao (Translator) • Barnes and Noble $12.00 1 $12.00
We Were Soldiers Once ... and Young: IA Drang - the Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam Harold G. Moore, General Ha Moore • Barnes and Noble $7.19 1 $7.19
Journal of Patrick Seamus Flaherty: United States Marine Corps, Khe Sanh, Vietnam, 1968 Ellen Emerson White • Barnes and Noble $8.76 4 $35.04
National Geographic: Inside the Vietnam War • Barnes and Noble $17.99 1 $17.99
Good Morning, Vietnam/Dead Poets Society • Barnes and Noble $14.39 1 $14.39
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam Bill Couturie, Tom Berenger, Ellen Burstyn, J. Kenneth Campbell • Barnes and Noble $17.99 1 $17.99
Cronkite Remembers • Barnes and Noble $26.99 1 $26.99
Hearts and Minds Peter Davis • Barnes and Noble $35.99 1 $35.99
Vietnam War (1945-1975) (SparkNotes History Note) SparkNotes Editors • Barnes and Noble $4.45 1 $4.45

Materials cost

$394.81

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $16.70

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.92

Fulfillment labor & materials

$9.00

Total project cost

$426.43

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$93.61

Total project goal

$520.04

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