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Mrs. Machado from Pleasant Hill, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Exploring Today's News to Achieve Perspective & Tolerance

My students need a class set of Scholastic Jr. Scholastic Magazines.

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Machado's classroom raised $458

This project is fully funded

My Students

The 8th grade students that enter my classroom are diverse in their cultural, ethnic, and socio-economic backgrounds. While they have vastly different lives outside of school, the thing they all have in common is that they are a part of our national, local, and school-wide communities.

My students, like most middle-schoolers, have a number of things in their outside lives that loom over them while they are on campus.

Part of my job is to provide curricula that is both universally-accessible and universally-relatable. Doing this enables them to be fully present, actively engaged, and achieve high levels.

My Project

Everywhere they turn, today's students are being bombarded with all sorts of information. I use the time spent in my room to encourage them to avoid bias, consider others' perspectives, and be altogether savvy in their consumption of knowledge. This resource, Junior Scholastic Magazine, greatly adds to this task.

The articles focus on current events, as well as historical events, at a level of comprehension that is geared towards middle school students.

The topics included in this publication often lead to valuable conversations with their peers and the whole class - which allows us to talk about today's world and the need for well-educated, active, and above all else, TOLERANT citizens!

Mrs. Machado Sequoia Middle School Grades 6-8

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

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Pleasant Hill, CA View local requests

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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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Junior Scholastic, Grades 6 - 8 (min. 10 subscriptions per order) - 16 Issues / Min. 10 Subscriptions / Grades 6–8 • Scholastic Classroom Magazines $8.49 35 $297.15

Materials cost

$297.15

Vendor shipping charges

 $29.72

Sales tax

 $27.19

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.46

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$388.52

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$68.56

Total project goal

$457.08

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $457.08

3 Donors

-$228.19

Donations toward project cost

-$194.56

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$33.63

match offer

-$228.19

Match offer toward project cost

-$193.96

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$34.23

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$0.70

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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