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Ms. White from Lafayette, IN is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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A Cultural Melting Pot...But How Did We Get Here??

My students need supplemental literature resources about immigration and population to learn about how the United States and the World has become a melting pot of cultures.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. White's classroom raised $194

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My Students

Textbooks are good at providing foundational information about a topic or theme, but they lack real life application and authenticity that can be provided by supplemental resources with real accounts from people of varying cultures and viewpoints.

My class is a mixture of students across cultures, countries, grade levels, and reading levels.

Many of them come from low-income, transient households that do not allow them to be exposed to different cultures and customs across the world. In addition, many of my students are narrow-minded about people who are different than them. By supplementing their life experiences with information about real people from around the world, I hope to not only engage them in class but also open their minds to other cultures that have immigrated into our community.

My Project

The selection of books I have chosen for this unit varies by reading level and cultural story in an attempt to reach every single student in my class. The best part about these books is that they are about other children with whom my students will be able to identify.

I have a foreign exchange student in my class.

He has talked about his experience in traveling to our country for an extended period of time and how estranged people made him feel merely because they did not understand his culture. In addition to teaching culture, this unit will introduce students to the struggles that immigrants face as they move to a new area. Lastly, it will teach my students about some of the cultures that are now embedded into our community due to immigration.

Ms. White Jefferson High School Grades 9-12

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Lafayette, IN 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

30 students impacted 6donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Colors of Freedom: Immigrant Stories Janet Bode • AKJ BOOKS $8.50 1 $8.50
If Your Name Was Changed at Ellis Island Ellen Levine, Wayne Parmenter (Illustrator) • AKJ BOOKS $5.97 1 $5.97
Kids Like Me: Voices of the Immigrant Experience Judith M. Blohm, Terri Lapinksy, Terri Lapinsky • AKJ BOOKS $16.67 1 $16.67
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration Isabel Wilkerson, Isabel Wilkerson • AKJ BOOKS $16.67 1 $16.67
Pushes and Pulls: Why Do People Migrate? Robert Walker • AKJ BOOKS $23.18 1 $23.18
Immigration Karen Miller (Editor) • AKJ BOOKS $27.18 1 $27.18
Immigration Tom Lansford • AKJ BOOKS $29.22 1 $29.22

Materials cost

$127.39

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.91

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$164.30

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$28.99

Total project goal

$193.29

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $193.29

4 Donors

-$97.00

Donations toward project cost

-$82.45

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$14.55

match offer

-$96.29

Match offer toward project cost

-$81.85

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$14.44

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 $0.00

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