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Mrs. Temel from Mystic CT is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Diversity in Biography

Help me give my students a selection of books like Who Is Kamala Harris? and Who Is Chloe Kim? to add diversity to the biography section of our classroom library.

  • $157 goal

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My Project

My students will be excited to begin our unit on biographies of famous Americans. We will read biographies and make "bottle biography figures" to represent our research. I want to have the selection of biographies mirror the diversity of the students in my room. Students value each other and the differences as well as our similarities. I hope to provide my students with a multicultural selection of biography books to choose from as they learn about famous people who have overcome obstacles in their lives.

Biographies such as Who Is Chloe Kim and Who is Kamala Harris will enhance the diversity of our classroom selection.

I want each and every student to find a biography to research that is meaningful to their lives. Our classroom library should be inclusive of all students so that everyone feels that they are seen and heard.

Mrs. Temel
Grades 6-8

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Who Is Shaquille O'Neal? (Who Was?) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Who Are Venus and Serena Williams? (Who Was?) • Amazon Business $6.15 1 $6.15
Who Is Cristiano Ronaldo? (Who HQ Now) • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Who Was Harriet Tubman? • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Who Is Zendaya? (Who HQ Now) • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Who Was Muhammad Ali? • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Who Was Jackie Robinson? • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Who Was Louis Armstrong? • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Who Is PelĂ©? (Who Was?) • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Who Was Maya Angelou? • Amazon Business $5.78 1 $5.78
Who Was Frida Kahlo? • Amazon Business $5.68 1 $5.68
Who Is Barack Obama? (Who Was?) • Amazon Business $5.68 1 $5.68
Who Is Colin Kaepernick? (Who HQ Now) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Who Is Kamala Harris? (Who HQ Now) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Who Is Ketanji Brown Jackson? (Who HQ Now) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Who Was Kobe Bryant? (Who HQ Now) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Who Is Chloe Kim? (Who HQ Now) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Who Is Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson? (Who HQ Now) • Amazon Business $4.74 1 $4.74

Materials cost

$101.90

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.53

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$133.43

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$23.55

Total project goal

$156.98

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$156.98

4 Donors

-$152.18

Donations toward project cost

-$133.43

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$18.75

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$4.80

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

$0.00

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