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Ms. Vargaz from Los Angeles CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Future Poets Need Poetry Books!

Help me give my students Maya Angelou poetry books and multicultural poetry books as we study about the beauty of poetry.

  • $623 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

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

Our students come from a variety of different ethnic backgrounds and live in a densely populated working class community. All of our students qualify for the free breakfast and lunch program. Our school serves students in grades 2nd-5th and provides not only a safe environment for them but fantastic teachers encourage them to dream about becoming trailblazers!

As a Title I school ,our students come from multilingual homes with diverse socio-economic backgrounds.

Our students are eager to become the first ones in their family to attend college and their enthusiasm for coming to school everyday is admirable. My students are determined to be scholars regardless of their personal hardships.

My Project

The diverse collection of poetry books I am requesting for my students will motivate and inspire my students to create their own poems. The Maya Angelou poetry books, Shel Silverstein collection of poetry books, Multicultural poetry books and bilingual poetry books will give my students the see and hear great examples of powerful poets.

By donating to our project, you will not only provide essential poetry books that will improve their language skills and exposure to different types of poems, you will ultimately support a new generation of poets.

The poetry books I have selected will enable my students to hold poetry books in their hands and see first hand how powerful poetry can be to motivate and inspire people!

Ms. Vargaz
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Shel Silverstein (5 Bk Set) • AKJ Education $70.30 1 $70.30
Hip Hop Speaks to Children A Celebration of Poetry With a Beat • AKJ Education $14.59 2 $29.18
Brown Girl Dreaming • AKJ Education $21.90 1 $21.90
A Child's Anthology of Poetry • AKJ Education $18.97 1 $18.97
The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry An Anthology • AKJ Education $18.25 1 $18.25
The 100 Best African American Poems (But I Cheated) • AKJ Education $18.24 1 $18.24
Where the Sidewalk Ends Book and CD Poems and Drawings • AKJ Education $16.78 1 $16.78
A Foot in the Mouth: Poems to Speak, Sing and Shout • AKJ Education $16.19 1 $16.19
Still I Rise • AKJ Education $16.02 1 $16.02
Life Doesn't Frighten Me (25th Anniversary Edition) • AKJ Education $14.56 1 $14.56
For Laughing Out Loud: Poems to Tickle Your Funnybone Poems to Tickle Your Funnybone • AKJ Education $14.56 1 $14.56
Dinothesaurus Prehistoric Poems and Paintings • AKJ Education $13.86 1 $13.86
The Tree Is Older Than You Are A Bilingual Gathering of Poems & Stories from Mex • AKJ Education $13.86 1 $13.86
Tamalitos Un Poema Para Cocinar / a Cooking Poem • AKJ Education $13.83 1 $13.83
Chicken Scratches Poultry Poetry and Rooster Rhymes • AKJ Education $13.49 1 $13.49
Brown Girl Dreaming • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Kids Pick The Funniest Poems Poems That Make Kids Laugh • AKJ Education $12.41 1 $12.41
Selected Poems of Langston Hughes • AKJ Education $11.68 1 $11.68
Maya Angelou • AKJ Education $10.94 1 $10.94
Blues Poems • AKJ Education $10.91 1 $10.91
I Ask the Impossible Poems • AKJ Education $10.22 1 $10.22
Ego-Tripping and Other Poems for Young People • AKJ Education $9.86 1 $9.86
Poems Maya Angelou • AKJ Education $8.47 1 $8.47
Laughing Tomatoes / Jitomates Risuenos And Other Spring Poems / Y Otros Poemas De Primavera • AKJ Education $7.26 1 $7.26
Poems to Dream Together / Poemas para sonar juntos • AKJ Education $7.26 1 $7.26
Maya Angelou • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
What I Did on My Summer Vacation Kids' Favorite Funny Summer Vacation Poems • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Revenge of the Lunch Ladies The Hilarious Book of School Poetry • AKJ Education $6.53 1 $6.53
Classic Poems to Read Aloud • AKJ Education $5.84 1 $5.84
I Am the Darker Brother An Anthology of Modern Poems by African Americans • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Who Was Maya Angelou? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Great Poems by American Women An Anthology • AKJ Education $3.29 1 $3.29

Materials cost

$451.11

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$41.28

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.77

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$529.16

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$93.38

Total project goal

$622.54

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$622.54

5 Donors

-$618.13

Donations toward project cost

-$529.16

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$88.97

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$4.41

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$0.00

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