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Ms. Mulvaney from Minneapolis, MN is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Latinx Author for Urban High Schoolers

Help me give my students enough books so they each have a copy! We are short by 40 books by this amazing Latinx author, sharing a story of friendship, hardship and the need to bend.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Mulvaney's classroom raised $565

This project is fully funded

My Students

This project will benefit approximately 150, 11th grade English students in my diverse, urban classroom. Coming from all cultures and walks of life, they are curious, lively, smart and unbelievably motivated. Students enrolled in this class vary from reading and processing at college levels, to still learning the English language and needing a lot of comprehension support, to those with special needs. This class teaches them how to analyze, reason and then write about it. We practice critical reading, thinking and discussion and it is amazing to see how students open up, discover how smart they are and learn how to express themselves intellectually. Literature teaches history, human thought and reasoning and exposes them to different perspectives and ways of life. They love it. I do too.

My Project

Benjamin Alire Saenz is an author my students need to read. I have 160 students enrolled for English 11 and am 40 books short. Please help me bridge this gap in basic learning materials. We are remote learning and each student will pick up a copy of their won, if this quest is successful. "Aristotle and Dante" will expose them to a great, Latinx author who writes about friendship and the need to bend in order to keep people in one's life. My diverse students (more than half students of color), need to experience authors that reflect their cultures and skin color. Saenz has a written a thought-provoking, discussion worthy book that will help my students engage, thing critically and write. It's not a glamorous project, but it's about books and literary. We don't have essential supplies to teach. Books are what we need.

I hope to pair this book with discussions about tolerance, gender and sexuality.

Ms. Mulvaney Washburn High School Grades 9-12

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This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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More than half of 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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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe • AKJ Education $10.94 40 $437.60

Materials cost

$437.60

Vendor shipping charges

$6.00

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.56

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$480.16

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$84.73

Total project goal

$564.89

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$564.89

6 Donors

-$562.25

Donations toward project cost

-$480.16

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$82.09

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$2.64

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$0.00

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