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Ms. Plourde from Las Vegas, NV is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Mirrors and Windows: New Books to Reflect my Diverse Students

Help me give my students books that can serve as MIRRORS (reflecting back their culture, values, and experiences) or WINDOWS (empathetic glimpses into another's world).

  • $395 goal

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My Students

My students are resilient, kind, young adults at a Title I school. Many of them struggled immensely last year during distance learning. The struggle continues this year as we try to build back some of the academic stamina and social-emotional skills that students need to feel confident, safe, and supported at school.

Our students have been out of the practice of reading for pleasure for some time, and it is crucial to provide them with reading opportunities that excite them and reflect their varied interests and backgrounds.

It is my hope that providing them with more independent reading choices and new, exciting young adult titles will rekindle the joy to be found in reading.

My Project

My students are loving their independent reading time where they get both class time and time at home to dive into a book of their choosing. This project would help add to my classroom library collection and offer more diversity in the books accessible to them.

We talk all the time in my classroom about books being either MIRRORS or WINDOWS; they can either reflect back our own experiences, or they can provide us with a glimpse into a very different life than the one we live; my students need more of both in their lives in order to spark their love of reading and progress their reading stamina and skills.

Bringing more contemporary titles into my classroom library is a way to show my students that I see them, that I value their identities, and that I'm committed to making them lifelong readers.

Ms. Plourde
Grades 9-12

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Before Takeoff • Amazon Business $18.99 1 $18.99
You Truly Assumed • Amazon Business $18.99 1 $18.99
I Guess I Live Here Now • Amazon Business $18.99 1 $18.99
The Water Child • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
Heartbreak Symphony • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
Color Me In • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
Me (Moth) • Amazon Business $15.59 1 $15.59
Trust the Grind: How World-Class Athletes Got To The Top (Motivational Book for Teens, Gift for Teen Boys, Teen and Young Adult Football, Fitness and Exercise) • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
Come With The Fire: Young Adult Fiction Novel • Amazon Business $13.99 1 $13.99
Blackout: The new blockbuster YA romance fiction novel of summer 2021 • Amazon Business $12.68 1 $12.68
THE COUSINS • Amazon Business $12.64 1 $12.64
Kneel (Inkyard Press / Harlequin Teen) • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage • Amazon Business $11.79 1 $11.79
When Dimple Met Rishi • Amazon Business $11.49 1 $11.49
One of Us Is Lying • Amazon Business $11.00 1 $11.00
All the Little Lights • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Meet Cute Diary • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
We Are Not Free • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Somewhere Only We Know • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
The Invincible Summer of Juniper Jones • Amazon Business $8.79 1 $8.79

Materials cost

$278.85

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $21.89

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.18

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$334.92

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$59.10

Total project goal

$394.02

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $394.02

3 Donors

-$130.36

Donations toward project cost

-$113.31

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$17.05

match offer

-$260.72

Match offer toward project cost

-$221.61

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$39.11

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$2.95

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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