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Mrs. Worthy from Downey CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Exploring Civil Rights with Brown Girl Dreaming

Help me give my students access to Jacqueline Woodson's "Brown Girl Dreaming".

  • $452 goal

This project expired on May 15, 2020.

This project expired on May 15, 2020.

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My Students

My students are extremely creative, kind and ambitious. They want to go to college and for many of them they would be the first in their family to do so. I have English learner and Accelerated students who would benefit from Woodson's poetry.

67% of our students are considered socio-economically disadvantaged and their families cannot afford to buy the extra supplies.

Our current unit focuses on the civil rights movement, and I would like to have a copy of "Brown Girl Dreaming" by Jacqueline Woodson for the 40 students I have in each class.

My Project

Woodson beautifully demonstrates what it was like to grow up in the 1960s and 1970s through poetry.

Poetry will allow for students who are struggling with English to chunk their reading and digest the words.

My accelerated students will develop additional poetry skills as well by developing an understanding for imagery, syntax and word choice.

Students will read each poem together. The culminating project is to pick a poem from the books and create a visual representation of the piece. They can perform it, animate a video, paint and more to share their visual representation of Woodson's coming of age story.

Mrs. Worthy
Grades 6-8

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Brown Girl Dreaming • Amazon Business $7.99 40 $319.60

Materials cost

$319.60

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $29.24

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.79

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$383.63

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$67.70

Total project goal

$451.33

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