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Mrs. Gamble from Cottondale, AL is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Help us Discover A Song for a Whale

Help me give my students a class set of A Song For a Whale by Lynne Kelly and a few copies of Becoming Muhammad Ali. These books will help our students better understand others.

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Gamble's classroom raised $309

This project is fully funded

My Students

My students walk into our school library with excitement in their eyes. They can't wait to be able to let their imagination go wild in the library Makerspace. You can see students taking apart and putting together computers, designing 3-D models, constructing structures, learning about circuitry, or playing board games. You will also see students curled up in the corner reading a book or asking me for a new book for them to read. It always puts a smile on my face when they come back to me, after reading a book, to tell me how much they loved a book.

The library has become a safe place, where my students have an opportunity to experience things that they can't access otherwise because of their socioeconomic background, and one of the best parts about my school is that we have such a diverse background of students.

This project will help us learn and appreciate the greatness of the diversity in our school and the world around us.

My Project

As a school librarian, I am always encouraging my teachers to read and find books that our students will feel they can relate to. We started the first ProjectLIT chapter in our school system. ProjectLIT is a grassroots movement that was started by a group of high school students in Tennessee. The focus is on diverse books and social justice topics. This is year three of being a chapter and it has really helped increase the reading culture in our school and to be able to see themselves in the books they read.

This project will allow us to expand our reach by allowing some of our elective classes to do whole-class book studies on these books and will allow them to have the time to really delve into the books and have great discussions.

A Song for a Whale is one of the most touching stories that I have read. It is a story of a deaf girl growing up as the only deaf person in her home and going to school as the only deaf person in her school. Communication is a constant struggle and all she wants to do is be understood. One day, her science teacher introduced her to Blue 55. Blue 55 is a whale that is like no other whale and he also can't communicate with others around him. She sets out to create a song that Blue 55 can understand so finally, he can hear something he understands. The copies of Becoming Muhammad Ali will be added to our other copies to give us a full class set. This novel in verse will introduce my students to a young Cassius Clay and his struggles growing up during racial unrest and his journey to become the best.

Mrs. Gamble Davis - Emerson Middle School Grades 6-8

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Nearly all 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
Song for a Whale • Amazon Business $6.59 28 $184.52
Becoming Muhammad Ali • Amazon Business $6.74 4 $26.96

Materials cost

$211.48

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $17.24

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.17

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$261.89

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$46.22

Total project goal

$308.11

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $308.11

12 Donors

-$150.44

Donations toward project cost

-$139.11

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$11.33

match offer

-$144.45

Match offer toward project cost

-$122.78

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$21.67

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$13.22

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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