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Mrs. H. from Saint Paul MN is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Graphic Novel Building Blocks

My students need graphic novels to study social justice and ethics in media and literacy.

  • $314 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

My students are amazing and motivated. We are an inner-city creative arts magnet school in the heart of downtown. Every student in our school is introduced to many different paths of arts from sculpture to dance to theatre, creative writing, literary publishing, and music.

Our students are incredibly talented and focused.

We are diverse and dedicated. Our students are artistic and real. Arts are a very real part of our students' identities and purpose. Our students are, quite simply, amazing.

My Project

Our library is brand new. In the past it has been a small, dark classroom with books locked in it. Students could only go in when they were sent out of class to see the behavior specialist, because that's where he was too.

Now our library is a light-filled space for students to read, create, explore, innovate, and learn.

We've moved from that dark, locked room into an open, light-filled space without doors. It is beautiful.

But our book collection is small. Our book to student ratio is severely under where we want it to be, and as a result, we are "short" more than 6,000 books. One of our most underrepresented genres is graphic novels. This collection of books will be a gigantic boost to our collection and will excite some of our most reluctant readers.

All the graphic novels requested here deal with an issue of social justice or an ethical, moral dilemma. These books will introduce students to the ideals of media literacy through a medium they can focus on enjoy. In an era of misdirection and faux news, particularly surround social issues, this skill is vital.

Mrs. H.
Grades 6-8

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Diary of a Wimpy Kid Box of Books 1-4 Revised • Amazon Business $39.85 1 $39.85
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth / Cabin Fever / The Third Wheel / Hard Luck • Amazon Business $30.99 1 $30.99
March (Trilogy Slipcase Set) • Amazon Business $29.99 1 $29.99
The Baby-Sitters Club Graphix #1-4 Box Set: Full-Color Edition • Amazon Business $26.80 1 $26.80
Dork Diaries Box Set (Book 1-3): Dork Diaries; Dork Diaries 2; Dork Diaries 3 • Amazon Business $25.60 1 $25.60
Maus : A Survivor's Tale. I. My Father Bleeds History. II. And Here My Troubles Began • Amazon Business $18.98 1 $18.98
Smile and Sisters: The Box Set • Amazon Business $13.40 1 $13.40
Black Butler, Vol. 1 • Amazon Business $10.28 1 $10.28
Black Butler, Vol. 2 • Amazon Business $10.22 1 $10.22
Black Butler, Vol. 3 • Amazon Business $10.05 1 $10.05
Bleach, Vol. 1 • Amazon Business $6.74 1 $6.74
Bleach, Vol. 3 • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Bleach, Vol. 4 • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99

Materials cost

$232.88

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.49

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$266.37

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$47.01

Total project goal

$313.38

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$313.38

14 Donors

-$162.00

Donations toward project cost

-$138.60

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$23.40

match offer

-$150.32

Match offer toward project cost

-$127.77

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$22.55

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$1.06

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

$0.00

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