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Mrs. Herbert from Salt Lake City UT is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Learning History Through Literature

Help me give my students great literary experiences despite budget cuts! All students deserve to hold a physical book in their hands. I want to give students the experience of Animal Farm and Warriors Don't Cry.

  • $1,001 goal

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My Students

My students are a diverse bunch of learners, eager for new challenges and academic opportunities. Our school teaches language arts and history as combined classes, and the students love the opportunity to read fiction and nonfiction texts that apply to the world around them. They love to debate current issues and discuss ideas in Socratic Seminars, both of which lead to informed and passionate writing.

Whenever possible, I love to combine creative, critical thinking opportunities with historical lessons: original children's books about Holocaust Heroes, artistic timelines with biography reading, poetry reflections about difficult moments in history.

The creative process allows students room to process the more difficult parts of American history in a very personal way. I find it immensely satisfying to give students that chance.

My Project

We teach history and language arts as one combined class period, which means we get to explore history through a unique perspective. It is a richer learning experience that takes students beyond the textbook. However, budget cuts leave us only able to buy classroom sets of books.

These extra books will allow students to take their books home for nightly reading instead of only having access to them at school.

This will allow students to interact and study the text on a deeper level that isn't dictated by the school bell.

Mrs. Herbert
Grades 6-8

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Animal Farm: 75th Anniversary Edition • Amazon Business $7.48 60 $448.80
Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High • Amazon Business $5.99 60 $359.40

Materials cost

$808.20

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$12.12

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$850.32

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$150.06

Total project goal

$1,000.38

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,000.38

2 Donors

-$750.38

Donations toward project cost

-$637.82

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$112.56

match offer

-$250.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$212.50

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$37.50

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 $0.00

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