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Mrs. Mendoza-Ramirez from Chicago, IL is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Mrs. Mendoza-Ramirez's classroom raised $234

Mirror, Mirror...Poetry Books for 8th Graders

My students need books which use a variety of rich text which kids can understand and be able to use in their writings.

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Mrs. Mendoza-Ramirez Maria Saucedo Scholastic Academy
Chicago, IL Grades 6-8

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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 Students

Students today enjoy books that use rich colors to illustrate their meanings and message and the books selected for these project do just that perfectly.

My students are great kids whose parents are struggling financially to make ends meet but make sacrifices so that their children can receive a better way of life than they received.

About 98% of my students come from low-income families and more than 90% of their parents did not finish grammar school in their native lands.

My Project

The various books in this project have been carefully selected by myself that are written specifically for middle school students and cover many themes which many of them can relate to.....friendship, being different, language barriers, and just surviving middle school.

Remember being in middle school and going through some crazy "mood swings?" My students are going through that transition and these books "talk" directly to my students.

I hope you will consider supporting my project and help me enrich my students' vocabulary forever.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Nearly all students from low‑income households

130 students impacted 3 donors
Mrs. Mendoza-Ramirez Maria Saucedo Scholastic Academy Grades 6-8

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Chicago, IL View local requests

Nearly all 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

130 students impacted 3donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Mirror Mirror: A Book of Reversible Verse Marilyn Singer, Jos e Masse (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $11.61 1 $11.61
Meanwhile: Pick Any Path. 3,856 Story Possibilities Jason Shiga • Barnes and Noble $10.90 1 $10.90
The Dreamer Pam Munoz Ryan, Peter S s (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $12.30 1 $12.30
The Birthday Ball Lois Lowry, Jules Feiffer (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $10.94 1 $10.94
How to Clean a Hippopotamus: A Look at Unusual Animal Partnerships Robin Page, Steve Jenkins • Barnes and Noble $10.94 1 $10.94
Falling In Frances O'Roark Dowell • Barnes and Noble $11.61 1 $11.61
Palazzo Inverso D. B. Johnson • Barnes and Noble $11.62 1 $11.62
Shark vs. Train Chris Barton, Tom Lichtenheld (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $11.61 1 $11.61
Cosmic Frank Cottrell Boyce • Barnes and Noble $11.61 1 $11.61
Keeper Mal Peet • Barnes and Noble $5.97 1 $5.97
Keeper Kathi Appelt, August Hall (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $11.61 1 $11.61
One Crazy Summer Rita Williams-Garcia • Barnes and Noble $10.93 1 $10.93
Drizzle Kathleen Van Cleve • Barnes and Noble $11.61 1 $11.61
The Sixty-Eight Rooms Marianne Malone, Greg Call (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $11.61 1 $11.61
Cloud Tea Monkeys Elspeth Graham, Mal Peet, Juan Wijngaard (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $10.93 1 $10.93

Materials cost

$165.80

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.49

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$203.29

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$30.38

Total project goal

$233.67

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $233.67

2 Donors

-$197.00

Donations toward project cost

-$171.39

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$25.61

match offer

-$36.67

Match offer toward project cost

-$31.90

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$4.77

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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