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Mr. Steinman from Oklahoma City, OK is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Between the World and the Heights

Help me give my students copies of Ta-Nehasi Coates' Between the World and Me, and an audiobook to use in class.

  • $539 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

My students come from an economically disadvantaged area in Oklahoma City. With a predominantly Hispanic, Latinx, and African American community, they don’t have access to many books and literature from people who share their background. The nearest public library is miles away from where most of our students live.

My students struggle to stay engaged with content that they can’t relate to.

They need opportunities to read content by more authors of color. This will help them ot be able to share their stories and lives.

My Project

The students will be able to understand the complicated issues they will begin to face as they prepare to enter the world. Ta-Nehasi Coates makes these real world struggles personal and engaging. What started as a letter to his son, now has grown into a memoir and meditation for all teenagers and adults to understand what others go through.

We will use the example of the book Between the World and Me, to help them create personal narratives about their daily lives.

Then, we can share these narratives with other students, so they know that their experience is no longer a hidden one.

Mr. Steinman
Grades 9-12

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Between the World and Me • Amazon Business $12.48 30 $374.40
Between the World and Me • Amazon Business $15.76 1 $15.76

Materials cost

$390.16

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$31.80

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.85

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$457.81

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$80.79

Total project goal

$538.60

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$538.60

5 Donors

-$268.00

Donations toward project cost

-$230.80

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$37.20

match offer

-$267.07

Match offer toward project cost

-$227.01

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$40.06

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$3.53

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$0.00

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