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Ms. Mason from Baileyville ME is requesting Books through DonorsChoose, the #1 classroom funding site for teachers.

Help Ms. M teach About The Past

Help me give my students explore the 1960's and the Civil Rights Movement.

  • $186 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

My students are historically curious high schoolers who reside in a rural area in the Great State of Maine. These kiddos are motivated self-starters who are delving into the 1960's of their own free choice. I am looking to engage them even further with the subject matter. They are students who need multiple forms of instruction and I am looking to use literature to peek their interests and broaden their horizons. This semester, I would love to expose them to the book, "The Help".

My Project

I am teaching a class this semester about the chaos that was the 1960's in the United States. My students will be discussing everything from Camelot to the Civil Rights movement. I am looking to have my students read the novel "The Help" and to bring into sharper focus the socioeconomic climate of the 1960's and what led to the fight for equality and Civil Rights.

My students come from a relatively sheltered climate where they have minimal to no exposure to diversity.

I feel these sorts of novels bring into their conscientiousness what realities exist outside their rural roots.

Ms. Mason
Grades 9-12
More than half of students from low‑income households

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This project will reach 15 students.

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Help • Amazon Business $7.99 15 $119.85

Materials cost

$119.85

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

State sales tax

$5.99

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.80

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$157.64

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$27.82

Total project goal

$185.46

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$185.46

7 Donors

-$185.46

Donations toward project cost

-$157.64

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$27.82

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$0.00

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