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Ms. Clemson from Nashville, TN is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Engaging Literature Needed!!

My students need high interest, engaging pieces of non-fiction, informational text to comply with common core AND, more importantly, to enjoy reading.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Clemson's classroom raised $871

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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.

My Students

For most kids, reading nonfiction is about as fun as outlining a social studies book. Please help me get pieces of engaging, high-interest non-fiction and matching historical fiction in the hands of my students so they can experience the excitement of detecting historical truth while learning.

My students are racially and culturally diverse and economically poor.

Students at my school speak upwards of 40 different languages at home, and 93% receive free and reduced lunch. We are a Title I public school in the Southeastern region of the United States. When the students take 8th grade US History, the discussions about slavery and the Civil Rights movement are still quite intense. As the literacy teacher, I'd like to incorporate the students' interest in this particular history while meeting common core, district, and state expectations for teaching non-fiction and fictional texts.

My Project

I am requesting a pair of books. One is nonfiction and one is historical fiction. Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case is the nonfiction piece, and Mississippi Trial, 1955 is the historical fiction account of the Emmett Till case. Both books are written by the same author which will provide a great discussion piece as well as an excellent genre study. The students will read and compare the books before setting out to do their own research. Also, the students will really learn about how scary and powerful racism was in the South in the 1950s. They don't understand how bad it was; they think they do, but they don't. Taking an in depth look at the case of Emmett Till will help them to understand how terrible it truly was, allow us to see how this event played into the beginning of the Civil Rights movement, and allow us to meet all of the informational text standards and expectations, and he students will be engaged in reading nonfiction!

In a world where students have access to an infinite amount of unfiltered information, it is extremely important that they learn how to read and analyze informational text.

They must be able to determine what is reliable information and what is not. They can only become good at this by doing it. In order to do it and do it well, they must be interested in the content they are studying. The case of Emmett Till in two different ways will provide the engaging texts we need.

Ms. Clemson Wright Middle School Grades 6-8

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More than a third of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Mississippi Trial, 1955 • AKJ Books $4.37 65 $284.05
Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till • AKJ Books $13.86 30 $415.80

Materials cost

$699.85

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$10.50

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$740.35

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$130.65

Total project goal

$871.00

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $871.00

6 Donors

-$671.00

Donations toward project cost

-$570.35

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$100.65

match offer

-$200.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$170.00

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$30.00

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 $0.00

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