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Mr. Kalver from Plantation FL is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Comics Vs. Graphic Novels

Help me give my students Art Spiegelman's graphic novel Maus I: A Survivor's Tale My Father Bleeds History for our literature study.

  • $468 goal

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My Students

At a TITLE 1 school in South Florida, my Language Arts students put the "Lit" in Literature. My classroom is wall to wall with posters and Memes that promote reading and writing, and encourage my students to grow as humans and learners.

I have 150 students who have deemed themselves Kalver's "Kool Kats." They come into class feeling cool as a cucumber, and ready to learn.

They come in ready to share. They make me feel good by telling me how they have used the information in my class in their daily lives, whether the lesson was about Financial Literacy or The Art of Persuasion.

With the goal to read at least one book a year, my classroom is the first place some of my students have ever read a book cover to cover.

My Project

Though the majority of my students are learning from home, a third of my students have come back to the physical classroom. Because many students are coming back to the Brick and mortar school-house, my incoming students could use physical books.

Multi-culturalism has been one of many themes to my class all year, and the graphic novel Maus only adds to that theme as a primary text my student's Novel Study.

It is a zoomorphism and Survivors tale of the Holocaust and living through a genocide that happened less than 80 years ago.

Because this novel reads like a cartoon, this book in particular will have my students experiencing the "Lit-art" that is my "Literature-study."

Mr. Kalver
Grades 6-8

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale My Father Bleeds History • AKJ Education $11.87 30 $356.10

Materials cost

$356.10

Vendor shipping charges

$6.00

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.34

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$397.44

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$70.14

Total project goal

$467.58

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$467.58

5 Donors

-$353.94

Donations toward project cost

-$333.69

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$20.25

match offer

-$75.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$63.75

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$11.25

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$38.64

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$0.00

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