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Exploring Disabilities using Novels and Documentaries

My students need these books and documentaries to show them that having a disability is not the end of the world, and that they are capable of accomplish and doing so much more than they think!

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Nguyen's classroom raised $1,146

This project is fully funded

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My Students

My students go to a small charter school in urban San Diego County. I teach students from 9th-12th grade that have a range of disabilities from mild to more severe classification. In my college readiness courses, it provides my students with information and transition skills that will hopefully prepare my students for the real world after high school.

I want to make sure that by the time my students leave me after high school they are ready for college, a career, and functional life skills they can use in their everyday lives.

My Project

These novels and documentaries will provide my students with information about the lives of real and fictional people that are born with disabilities or having a disability occur later on in life that changes the character's life. I want my students to explore what it means to have a disability in today's society, and for them to see it from different perspective beyond their own challenges. I want my students to understand that yes they have a disability but they can still go to college, get a job, and have a meaningful and impactful life after high school.

This is to demonstrate to my students that people who have disabilities can lead meaningful lives; and to not let their disabilities hold them back.

The purpose of this donors choose project is so that we can purchase novel sets that present the perspective of children and students who have disabilities and what they did to either overcome or learn how to live with their disabilities.

Mrs. Nguyen O'Farrell Charter School Grades 9-12

Equity Focus

This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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More than half 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
Wonder • AKJ Education $8.79 20 $175.80
Flowers for Algernon • Amazon Business $8.60 20 $172.00
Blind • Amazon Business $7.63 20 $152.60
Fish in a Tree • Amazon Business $6.81 20 $136.20
Owning It: Stories About Teens with Disabilities • Amazon Business $3.65 20 $73.00
Why I Burned My Book and Other Essays on Disability (American Subjects) • Amazon Business $28.54 1 $28.54
Including Samuel DVD • Amazon Business $25.95 1 $25.95
The K&W Guide to Colleges for Students with Learning Differences, 13th Edition: 353 Schools with Programs or Services for Students with ADHD, ASD, or Learning Disabilities (College Admissions Guides) • Amazon Business $21.61 1 $21.61
I Can't Do This But; I Can Do That: A Film For Families About Learning Differences • Amazon Business $16.62 1 $16.62
Unforgotten: Twenty-Five Years After Willowbrook • Amazon Business $14.96 1 $14.96
DAKOTA'S PRIDE • Amazon Business $9.88 1 $9.88
Reading, Grades 6 - 8: Informational Text Learning Stations (English Language Arts) • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Reading, Grades 6 - 8: Literature Learning Stations (English Language Arts) • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Writing Learning Stations, Grades 6 - 8 (English Language Arts) • Amazon Business $7.42 1 $7.42

Materials cost

$852.56

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $78.01

3rd party payment processing fee

$12.79

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$973.36

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$171.77

Total project goal

$1,145.13

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,145.13

1 Donor

-$1,145.13

Donations toward project cost

-$973.36

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$171.77

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