My students need 2 copies of Salt: A World History, 5 copies of Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, and 3 copies of Guns, Germs, and Steel.
FULLY FUNDED! Mr. Stuart's classroom raised $157
This project is fully funded
My Students
My English students love reading books of their choice, and yet my world history students often don't see the point of reading anything but the textbook and a few primary source documents. I'd like to change that.
My kids are awesome and I love them.
We live in a small town, and yet my students are future world-shapers. I believe they can be the kinds of teens who grow up into impactful parents, spouses, thinkers, and creators. Yet, for many of them, this small town is all they've ever known -- and there's both a beauty to that reality, and a limitation to it.
My Project
Imagine a world history classroom that had a shelf full of books on any topic that caught kids' fancy. What if, when a few students became intrigued by Genghis Khan, they could pick up an entire book on that one figure from world history; what if, the same was possible when they became interested in viewing history through intriguing lenses, like the lens of a single commodity (Salt) or the key factors that make things the way they are (Guns, Germs, and Steel)?
That's what you're providing with this project -- a chance to dig deeper into history; a chance to do what few history students get to do in this country: explore deeply and richly the many stories that the textbooks cannot contain.
If you've fallen in love with history, help my students do the same. Thank you so much!
Half of students from low‑income households
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