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Ms. Filipek from Oakland, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Love of Poetry

Help me give my students a new class set of Bronx Masquerade books

  • $322 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Project

I co-teach an English class, and one thing we want is to have books that our students want to read and can relate to.

Bronx Masquerade is a book that we have used in class for the past few years and the kids just fall in love with it.

However the class set we have has seen better days and lots of the books are falling apart. I am asking for a whole new class set. This is not a book that the district will prove but we know it is important for our students to read. After they read this book we ask them to write their own poem. In the past so many kids have found a love for reading and for poetry

Ms. Filipek
Grades 6-8

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Bronx Masquerade • Amazon Business $8.79 25 $219.75

Materials cost

$219.75

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $20.11

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.30

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$273.16

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$48.20

Total project goal

$321.36

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $321.36

1 Donor

-$64.27

Donations toward project cost

-$54.63

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$9.64

match offer

-$257.09

Match offer toward project cost

-$218.53

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$38.56

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