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Ms. Uhl from Suitland MD is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Classroom Library: No Longer a Jail of Other People's Interests...

Help me give my students engaging stories that showcase the power and beauty of cultures with which they can easily identify and connect.

  • $769 goal

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Celebrating Black History Month

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 teach four co-taught seventh-grade English classes each day. The smallest is 18, the largest is 31. Most of the students have various academic and behavioral challenges that can be difficult to serve in a standard classroom setting.

Even with my largest class, I love their sense of humor, their energy, and the way they engage with me.

I have always loved teaching middle school because you can see them embarking on developing their individual selves, and it's inspiring to be even a small part of that.

My Project

Literature circles are daunting for teachers in middle school, and I want my learners to find the magic of reading that I had growing up; the best way I can think to do this is by presenting them with characters they can easily connect and relate to.

Graphic novels have such a wider reach for younger readers because they are dynamic and visually stimulating, and I want to bring the enjoyment that I have had with them to my students today.

In a world of small screens and limited free time and access to worlds beyond their front doors, my students deserve to have their horizons expanded, to see worlds where they can see themselves.

Ms. Uhl
Grades 6-8

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Black Panther Book 5: Avengers of the New World Part 2 • Amazon Business $12.99 5 $64.95
Black Panther Book 6: The Intergalactic Empire of Wakanda Part 1 (Black Panther by Ta-Nehisi Coates (2018)) • Amazon Business $12.99 5 $64.95
Black Panther Book 7: The Intergalactic Empire of Wakanda Part 2 • Amazon Business $12.99 5 $64.95
Between the World and Me • Amazon Business $12.38 5 $61.90
Between the World and Me • Amazon Business $12.38 5 $61.90
Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet Book 3 • Amazon Business $12.30 5 $61.50
Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet Book 2 • Amazon Business $11.86 5 $59.30
Black Panther Book 4: Avengers of the New World Book 1 • Amazon Business $11.73 5 $58.65
Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America • Amazon Business $9.39 5 $46.95
Autobiography of My Dead Brother • Amazon Business $6.99 5 $34.95

Materials cost

$580.00

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $34.80

3rd party payment processing fee

$8.70

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$653.50

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$115.32

Total project goal

$768.82

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $768.82

2 Donors

-$578.90

Donations toward project cost

-$492.07

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$86.83

match offer

-$189.92

Match offer toward project cost

-$161.43

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$28.49

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