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Mr. Martinez Bernardino from Richmond, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Books for the Justice League

My students need books to do research for our research based informational reading and writing unit, which focuses on activism and activists.

FULLY FUNDED! Mr. Martinez Bernardino's classroom raised $217

This project is fully funded

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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 Students

My students are predominately Latino and African American and hail from North Richmond. My class has a vision for their success and is invested in their SMART goals to achieve their ambitions. In my classroom sit future doctors, lawyers, and educators, eager to learn and create knowledge for their lifelong success. Together the Justice League is developing the literacy skills they need to harness their voice and a critical consciousness.

Their markers of identity offer them a unique perspective and invaluable cultural capital that they may leverage to achieve their dreams.

I empower my students by engaging them in discourse around their own identity and their role in perpetuating systems of inequalities or offering better frameworks centered on the intersectionality of identity.

My Project

The Justice League has learned to read books like they are gold. These resources will support the research phase of our next reading and writing unit. These books are will support classes' inquiry of systems of inequalities, civil rights movements, and empowering leaders that pursued justice. Students will use the knowledge that they created to write All About Activism books.

Students will overcome barriers in their reading and writing so that they may access complex text and create complex text that will help others overcome barriers that stand in the way of justice.

"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Mr. Martinez Bernardino Verde Elementary School Grades 3-5

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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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

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
We Were There, Too! Young People in U.S. History • AKJ Education $25.54 1 $25.54
Portraits of Hispanic American Heroes • AKJ Education $14.59 1 $14.59
One Peace Stories of Young Activists • AKJ Education $14.56 1 $14.56
The Tree Lady The True Story of How One Tree-Loving Woman Changed a City Forever • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Do Something! A Handbook for Young Activists • AKJ Education $12.56 1 $12.56
For the Right to Learn Malala Yousafzai's Story • AKJ Education $11.64 1 $11.64
Rad American Women A-z • AKJ Education $10.91 1 $10.91
Nobel's Women for Peace • AKJ Education $7.99 1 $7.99
Nobody Gonna Turn Me 'Round Stories and Songs of the Civil Rights Movement • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
Animal Rights Activist • AKJ Education $6.53 1 $6.53
How Did This Happen Here?: Japanese Internment Camps • AKJ Education $6.05 1 $6.05
Rachel Carson Clearing the Way for Environmental Protection • AKJ Education $5.07 1 $5.07
Malala A Hero for All • AKJ Education $3.59 1 $3.59

Materials cost

$139.45

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $12.76

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.09

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$184.30

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$32.52

Total project goal

$216.82

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $216.82

3 Donors

-$216.82

Donations toward project cost

-$184.30

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$32.52

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