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Ms. Kao from Milwaukee, WI is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Help Us Graduate College in 2021!

My students need 31 college prep materials, including 24 copies of "We Beat the Street: How a Friendship Pact Led to Success".

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Ms. Kao Milwaukee Renaissance Academy
Milwaukee, WI Grades 6-8

My Students

Do you remember trying to decide which college to attend? For many of my middle school students, the question is not which college to attend but whether they will go to college at all. This needs to change today!

My 6th and 7th grade ELA students attend a charter school in Milwaukee that aims to close the achievement gap by starting middle schoolers on a path to college preparedness.

Here, they learn the importance of both academics and character development. Our school is filled with students who have the potential to be great scholars. We have the talent. We have the drive. Now we just need some of the materials.

My Project

One of our big goals this year is not only to put our middle school students on the path to college preparedness but to invest them in the extreme importance of this academic journey. In order to do so, I am asking for a wide variety of materials: exciting YA books and graphic novels that teach ACT and SAT vocabulary words; copies of guides to colleges, college majors, and the college admission process; collections of stories from real teens and young adults who have applied to and attended good colleges and universities; and workbooks that teach study and note-taking skills. In addition, I am also asking for a classroom set of We Beat the Street. Reading this inspiring book as a class will show my students that getting into a good high school and going to college is a possibility for everyone -- and a crucial key to future success.

This college-prep project will prove invaluable for my students, because it ultimately will help them both seek and gain admission to high-performing colleges and universities.

They will get to decide their own courses of study, their own career paths, and their own futures. Your donation will make a huge difference.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

85 students impacted 6 donors
Ms. Kao Milwaukee Renaissance Academy Grades 6-8

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Milwaukee, WI View local requests 85 students impacted 6donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
We Beat the Street: How a Friendship Pact Led to Success Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, Sharon Draper, Rameck Hunt • Barnes and Noble $3.40 24 $81.60
Busted (Smart Novels: Vocabulary) SparkNotes Editors, SparkNotes Staff • Barnes and Noble $6.79 1 $6.79
Sun-Kissed (Smart Novels: Vocabulary) SparkNotes Editors, SparkNotes Staff • Barnes and Noble $6.79 1 $6.79
Head Over Heels (Smart Novels: Vocabulary) SparkNotes Editors • Barnes and Noble $6.79 1 $6.79
Vampire Dreams (Smart Novels: Vocabulary) SparkNotes Editors, SparkNotes Staff • Barnes and Noble $6.79 1 $6.79
Psy-Comm, Volume 1: Kaplan SAT/ACT Vocabulary-Building Manga Jason Henderson, Tony Salvaggio, Shane Granger • Barnes and Noble $8.54 1 $8.54
Warcraft: Dragon Hunt, Volume 1: Kaplan SAT/ACT Vocabulary-Building Manga Richard Knaak, Jae-Hwan Kim (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $8.54 1 $8.54
Rave New World (Smart Novels: Vocabulary) SparkNotes Editors • Barnes and Noble $6.79 1 $6.79
S.C.A.M. (Smart Novels: Vocabulary) SparkNotes Editors • Barnes and Noble $6.79 1 $6.79
1100 Words You Need to Know Murray Bromberg, Melvin Gordon • Barnes and Noble $9.56 1 $9.56
Defining Eclipse: Vocabulary Workbook for Unlocking the SAT, ACT, GED, and SSAT Brian Leaf • Barnes and Noble $8.54 1 $8.54
Defining New Moon: Vocabulary Workbook for Unlocking the SAT, ACT, GED, and SSAT Brian Leaf • Barnes and Noble $8.54 1 $8.54
Defining Twilight: Vocabulary Workbook for Unlocking the SAT, ACT, GED, and SSAT Brian Leaf • Barnes and Noble $8.54 1 $8.54
Mayan Mission: Another Mission. Another Country. Another Action-Packed Adventure: 1,000 Need-to-Know SAT Vocabulary Words Karen B. Chapman • Barnes and Noble $10.54 1 $10.54
Unofficial Harry Potter Vocabulary Builder: Learn the 3,000 Hardest Words from All Seven Books and Enjoy the Series More Sayre Van Young • Barnes and Noble $13.76 1 $13.76
Van Von Hunter, Volume 1: Kaplan SAT/ACT Vocabulary-Building Manga Ron Kaulfersch, Mike Schwark • Barnes and Noble $8.54 1 $8.54
Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream George Jenkins, Sampson Davis, Rameck Hunt • Barnes and Noble $26.76 1 $26.76
Letters to a Young Brother: MANifest Your Destiny Hill Harper • Barnes and Noble $9.57 1 $9.57
Letters to a Young Sister: DeFINE Your Destiny Hill Harper, Foreword by Gabrielle Union • Barnes and Noble $10.26 1 $10.26
Book of Majors 2011 College Board Staff, Henry Holt Books Staff • Barnes and Noble $18.45 1 $18.45
Guide to College Majors, 2010 Edition Princeton Review • Barnes and Noble $17.05 1 $17.05
What Color Is Your Parachute? For Teens, 2nd Edition: Discovering Yourself, Defining Your Future Carol Christen, Richard N. Bolles • Barnes and Noble $10.93 1 $10.93
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens Workbook Sean Covey • Barnes and Noble $4.27 24 $102.48
Chicken Soup for the College Soul: Inspiring and Humorous Stories about College Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Dan Clark, Kimberly Kirberger • Barnes and Noble $10.22 1 $10.22
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Teens Talk Getting In. . . to College: 101 True Stories from Kids Who Have Lived Through It Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Amy Newmark • Barnes and Noble $12.14 1 $12.14
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Campus Chronicles: 101 Inspirational, Supportive, and Humorous Stories about Life in College Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Amy Newmark, Madeline Clapps • Barnes and Noble $12.14 1 $12.14
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Teens Talk Growing Up: Stories about Growing up, Meeting Challenges, and Learning from Life Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Amy Newmark • Barnes and Noble $12.14 1 $12.14
Blank Study Cards (SparkNotes Study Cards) SparkNotes Editors • Barnes and Noble $4.22 1 $4.22
English Vocabulary (SparkNotes Study Cards) SparkNotes Editors • Barnes and Noble $8.50 1 $8.50
English Grammar (SparkNotes Study Cards) SparkNotes Editors • Barnes and Noble $8.50 1 $8.50
Admission Matters: What Students and Parents Need to Know About Getting into College Sally P. Springer, Marion R. Franck, Jon Reider • Barnes and Noble $10.22 1 $10.22

Materials cost

$481.02

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.22

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$523.24

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$92.34

Total project goal

$615.58

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $615.58

4 Donors

-$606.38

Donations toward project cost

-$523.24

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$83.14

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$9.20

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