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Ms. Cunningham from Laveen AZ is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Culturally Responsive Whole-Class Novel for Honors 9th Grade English!

Help me give my students their own copy of The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline!

  • $910 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

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.

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 Project

Our school, located in Southwest Phoenix, serves students from a wide variety of cultural backgrounds including a number of local Indigenous tribes and communities. These students, however, rarely get to see themselves and their culture reflected in the classroom, on the syllabus, and in the texts they read.

Learning to love reading starts with capturing student attention, making the reading real and authentic for them; therefore, it's crucial that underrepresented groups are given just as many chances to see and hear their stories as their peers are.

The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline is a novel by an Indigenous Métis author that highlights the struggles and joys of Indigenous people. The book is dynamic and fun to read but still captures important messages about human nature, the historic mistreatment of Indigenous Americans, identity, the power of knowing who you are and where you're from, and hope. This project will allow students who are financially unable to purchase their own book to have their own physical copy of the novel to read as a class, take notes in, and keep forever!

Ms. Cunningham
Grades 9-12

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Marrow Thieves • Amazon Business $15.19 45 $683.55

Materials cost

$683.55

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $48.87

3rd party payment processing fee

$10.25

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$772.67

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$136.35

Total project goal

$909.02

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $909.02

1 Donor

-$909.02

Donations toward project cost

-$772.67

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$136.35

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