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Ms. Kristina Beers-Cabrera from Oxnard, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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American History Comes Alive!

Help me give my students the experience of living through a colonial Jamestown through the purchase of a class set of the book Blood on the River.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Kristina Beers-Cabrera's classroom raised $454

This project is fully funded

Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Project

The book, Blood on the River, always inspires my students to want to learn more about American history. Historical fiction books of this quality are a wonderful way to get middle grade students interested in the historical topics studied at their grade level. I use Blood on the River as a way to introduce the concept of the colonization of the United States by settlers.

With this novel, students are introduced to various topics of 17th century history in an engaging and entertaining way; for example, dangerous sea travel, Europe's differing reasons for colonization, and the fact that indigenous people were already here.

Blood on the River is an engaging novel which really brings the experiences of that time period to life. Students love reading about Samuel's journey to the New World from England, and then his exciting adventures as he helps to establish the Jamestown settlement in Virginia.

I have also included several other picture books that are either non-fiction or historical fiction. I like to make sure to include as many other perspectives as I can find. I feel it is important to center the African-American and Native American experiences and point of view from that same time period in history.

Ms. Kristina Beers-Cabrera Christa McAuliffe Elementary School Grades 3-5

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Oxnard, CA 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

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Where Your Donation Goes

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Blood on the River - Paperback Book • AKJ Education $7.29 35 $255.15
Fort Mose: And the Story of the Man Who Built the First Free Black Settlement in Colonial America • Amazon Business $16.90 1 $16.90
A Spy Called James: The True Story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War Double Agent • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
Before She was Harriet (Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Books) • Amazon Business $10.34 1 $10.34
The People Shall Continue - Paperback Book • AKJ Education $8.72 1 $8.72
Buffalo Bird Girl: A Hidatsa Story • Amazon Business $7.39 1 $7.39
If You - If You Lived During the Plimoth Thanksgiving - Paperback Book • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56

Materials cost

$321.05

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $29.38

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.82

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$385.25

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$67.99

Total project goal

$453.24

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $453.24

1 Donor

-$226.62

Donations toward project cost

-$192.63

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$33.99

match offer

-$226.61

Match offer toward project cost

-$192.62

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$33.99

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 $0.00

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