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Mr. Lowery from Seattle, WA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Literacy For The 21st Century Historian

My students need multiple copies of 25+ books in order to successfully master Common Core literacy skills including The autobiography of Malcolm X, Chains and The Absolutely True Diary.

FULLY FUNDED! Mr. Lowery's classroom raised $851

This project is fully funded

My Students

Many of my students struggle to find books that they can see themselves and their life experiences reflected in. My students have the desire to be engaged in rigorous and meaningful exploration of literature, they just need texts that help them to stay anchored in the work.

This year, I have the opportunity to work with a group of thoughtful, passionate, principled young people.

My students are eager to learn, and use the skills they develop in class to impact their communities in meaningful ways. My students face challenges daily that many in our city do not even have to think about, and despite these challenges, or perhaps because of them, our students come with a genuine sense of hopefulness and unabashed determination. My school is working hard to provide our students with the resources, opportunities and learning experiences that support the growth and development of our kids and it is my hope that you can help us in this endeavor.

My Project

I am writing to ask for help in building my classroom library. At this point, I do not have a library that will meet the needs of the various types of learners in my classroom. We are a school that is committed to meeting the literacy needs of all learners and have chosen Columbia Teachers’ College’ approach to literacy as our methodological approach to meeting these needs. A classroom library that includes texts that are highly engaging, representative of various genres and reading levels and are reflective of student’s lives and experiences as well as books that give them access to the world beyond South Seattle are essential to ensuring student achievement and well-being. Students will use the books from their classroom library daily to take the skills we are leaning in class and apply those skills to their independent and group explorations in order to achieve mastery on various learning activities and assessments.

Your donations will directly help build a classroom library that truly meets the needs of our students.

These books will be used daily to in order to build context around historical topics and concepts we are learning, to highlight the lives and experiences of ourselves and others and provide engaging material from which to engage the hard work of the Common Core literacy standards. Providing my students with the resources they are deserving of will ensure that they reach the goals.

Mr. Lowery Cleveland STEM High School Grades 9-12

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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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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Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Truth About Alice: A Novel • Amazon Business $11.48 4 $45.92
Looking Like Me • Amazon Business $14.17 3 $42.51
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian • Amazon Business $9.63 4 $38.52
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood • Amazon Business $8.39 4 $33.56
Tears of a Tiger (Hazelwood High Trilogy) • Amazon Business $15.69 2 $31.38
Darius & Twig • Amazon Business $7.67 4 $30.68
Hole in My Life • Amazon Business $9.99 3 $29.97
The Impossible Knife of Memory • Amazon Business $9.18 3 $27.54
Lockdown • Amazon Business $9.18 3 $27.54
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History • Amazon Business $9.01 3 $27.03
John Green Box Set • Amazon Business $25.67 1 $25.67
Romiette and Julio • Amazon Business $7.99 3 $23.97
The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley • Amazon Business $5.99 4 $23.96
The Basketball Diaries • Amazon Business $11.27 2 $22.54
The Hunger Games (Book 1) • Amazon Business $7.09 3 $21.27
Dope Sick • Amazon Business $9.82 2 $19.64
The House on Mango Street • Amazon Business $6.22 3 $18.66
Batman: The Killing Joke, Deluxe Edition • Amazon Business $9.24 2 $18.48
American Born Chinese • Amazon Business $5.76 3 $17.28
A Child Called It: One Child's Courage to Survive • Amazon Business $8.53 2 $17.06
Chains (The Seeds of America Trilogy) • Amazon Business $8.09 2 $16.18
Tears of a Tiger • Amazon Business $7.99 2 $15.98
Darkness Before Dawn • Amazon Business $7.99 2 $15.98
Street Love • Amazon Business $7.32 2 $14.64
Divergent (Divergent Series) • Amazon Business $6.91 2 $13.82
Out of My Mind • Amazon Business $4.53 2 $9.06

Materials cost

$628.84

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $55.02

3rd party payment processing fee

$9.43

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$723.29

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$127.64

Total project goal

$850.93

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $850.93

2 Donors

-$401.94

Donations toward project cost

-$344.65

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$57.29

Matching donations from our partners

-$445.46

Match offers toward project cost

-$378.64

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$66.82

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$3.53

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