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Mrs. Curran from Jacksonville FL is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Black Panther: A Cultural Comic Book Study

My students need to see positive, powerful examples of heroes & leaders who look like them. This newest installment of Black Panther is also written AND illustrated by African Americans.

  • $170 goal

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Celebrate Black Teachers and Students

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

I serve the wonderful 4th through 8th grade, at-risk students at a high poverty school in Jacksonville, Florida. Our school is 84% minority and 100% of students receive free breakfast and lunch every day. Many of our students and families have suffered severe/multiple trauma(s).

Our school is the only one like it on the entire eastern seaboard, providing free, public Montessori curricula in English and Spanish classrooms, serving high at-risk youth in our city's "deadliest zip code." Through the Montessori Method, we develop inquisitive, reflective, and self-reliant humanitarians.

Our peaceful sanctuary builds relationships like no other, beginning in Pre-K, Kindergarten and 1st grade. Our students matriculate through elementary and middle school together, in preparation for high school and college. The community, teachers, staff, and administration are a devoted, diligent family who give our best to our students each day.

My Project

My students idolize superheroes, like many children their age. Unlike my students, however, many of their heros portrayed in literature or other media are white or caucasian. If you ask my students about Captain America, Thor, or Spider-Man, they know a great deal and speak excitedly about their origin stories and heroic acts of justice.

My students know very little, however, about positive & powerful role models who look like them in the fun, fictional world in which they engage.

With the release of "Black Panther" (the film) more attention is being drawn to the African American hero. Last year's reinstallment of "Black Panther" the comic book series has been brought to us by an African American author (Ta-Nehisi Coates) and an African American illustrator (Brian Stelfreeze). I hope to analyze with my students the implications and impact of history-shaping legacies such as colonization and slavery. Black Panther is a hero about whom my students can center discussion of their cultural roots, their land(s) of origin, and the possibilities in their futures.

Mrs. Curran
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet Book 1 • Amazon Business $11.26 10 $112.60

Materials cost

$112.60

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.69

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$144.29

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$25.46

Total project goal

$169.75

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$169.75

5 Donors

-$140.16

Donations toward project cost

-$123.04

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$17.12

match offer

-$25.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$21.25

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$3.75

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$4.59

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$0.00

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