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Ms. Diket from Windsor, ME is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Multicultural Books

Help me give my students multicultural books to enhance their learning from different world cultures, as well as our own Native American Cultures right here in Maine.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Diket's classroom raised $913

This project is fully funded

My Students

I am blessed to work in a pre-k through eighth grade rural school with just over three hundred and twenty students that values not only reading, writing and arithmetic, but also the arts and consumer sciences. So many schools lack funding for these 'extra' books and activities due to budgets that get stretched too thin to meet the general needs of academics. Over fifty percent of our students qualify for free or reduced price lunch. Our Middle School students have several outside learning interests that they ask to learn about and staff tries to meet some of those outside interests as best we can. Much of this is done through reading novels that take us all over the world.

As a rural Maine community, we try to encourage our students to learn about other cultures that aren't always covered in core classes.

We value the opportunity top expose our students to cultures, lands and experiences other than their own. These books will not only enhance my social studies curriculum and help us meet our learning targets, but will support student engagement in learning about people and places outside of their own 'worlds'.

My Project

Students are always asking questions about cultures other than their own. Books are a wonderful way to introduce students to other cultures and answer many of their questions. The books I am requesting are written on multiple levels from novels to picture books, so that every student can access the information.

Students are able to read about and learn from other cultures without leaving Windsor, Maine.

Through books, students can see and learn about food, clothing, holidays, celebrations, as well as homelife, jobs, land areas from all over the world! I am always looking for materials that will assist students in their learning of other cultures and this project will help get some much needed resources in my classroom that students can access daily.

Ms. Diket Windsor Elementary School Grades 6-8

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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More than a third 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
Down East: An Illustrated History of Maritime Maine • Amazon Business $27.42 1 $27.42
National Geographic Kids Encyclopedia of American Indian History and Culture: Stories, Timelines, Maps, and More • Amazon Business $22.49 1 $22.49
The Visual Language of Wabanaki Art (American Heritage) • Amazon Business $19.99 1 $19.99
Baseball's First Indian: The Story of Penobscot Legend Louis Sockalexis • Amazon Business $19.95 1 $19.95
Countries of the World: Our World in Pictures • Amazon Business $19.29 1 $19.29
March: Book Three • MahoganyBooks $17.99 1 $17.99
Blackout • MahoganyBooks $17.99 1 $17.99
March: Book Two • MahoganyBooks $17.96 1 $17.96
The Day You Begin • MahoganyBooks $17.10 1 $17.10
I Am Enough • MahoganyBooks $17.10 1 $17.10
The Gilded Ones (Deathless #1) • MahoganyBooks $17.09 1 $17.09
Becoming: Adapted for Young Readers • MahoganyBooks $17.09 1 $17.09
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning • MahoganyBooks $17.09 1 $17.09
The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist • MahoganyBooks $16.19 1 $16.19
Parker Looks Up: An Extraordinary Moment • MahoganyBooks $16.19 1 $16.19
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Picture Book Edition • MahoganyBooks $16.19 1 $16.19
The Undefeated • MahoganyBooks $16.19 1 $16.19
Children Just Like Me: A new celebration of children around the world • Amazon Business $15.63 1 $15.63
Something to Say • MahoganyBooks $15.29 1 $15.29
Clean Getaway • MahoganyBooks $15.29 1 $15.29
What Do You Celebrate?: Holidays and Festivals Around the World • Amazon Business $15.26 1 $15.26
Mi'kmaw Animals (English and Micmac Edition) • Amazon Business $14.95 1 $14.95
March: Book One • MahoganyBooks $13.46 1 $13.46
The Thundermaker (English and Micmac Edition) • Amazon Business $12.95 1 $12.95
Mi'kmaw Daily Drum: Mi'kmaw Culture for Every Day of the Week • Amazon Business $12.95 1 $12.95
A Place Called Home: Look Inside Houses Around the World (Lonely Planet Kids) • Amazon Business $12.93 1 $12.93
The Travel Book: A journey through every country in the world (Lonely Planet Kids) • Amazon Business $12.16 1 $12.16
Women of the Dawn • Amazon Business $12.12 1 $12.12
New Kid • MahoganyBooks $11.69 1 $11.69
Class Act • MahoganyBooks $11.69 1 $11.69
New England Indians (Illustrated Living History Series) • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
In Indian Tents: Stories Told By Penobscot, Passamaquoddy and Micmac Indians (Classic Reprint) • Amazon Business $10.87 1 $10.87
All American Boys • MahoganyBooks $10.79 1 $10.79
Louis Sockalexis: Native American Baseball Pioneer • Amazon Business $10.62 1 $10.62
101 Awesome Women Who Changed Our World • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
A Ticket Around the World • Amazon Business $9.95 1 $9.95
Just Mercy (Adapted for Young Adults): A True Story of the Fight for Justice • MahoganyBooks $9.89 1 $9.89
Brown Girl Dreaming • MahoganyBooks $9.89 1 $9.89
Pet • MahoganyBooks $8.99 1 $8.99
It's Trevor Noah: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Adapted for Young Readers) • MahoganyBooks $8.09 1 $8.09
Concrete Kids • MahoganyBooks $8.09 1 $8.09
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind • MahoganyBooks $8.09 1 $8.09
Hidden Figures Young Readers' Edition • MahoganyBooks $8.09 1 $8.09
Giants of The Dawnland: Ancient Wabanaki Tales • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Thirteen Moons on Turtle's Back: A Native American Year of Moons • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Homes in Many Cultures (Life Around the World) • Amazon Business $7.29 1 $7.29
Lu (Track #4) • MahoganyBooks $7.19 1 $7.19
Sunny (Track #3) • MahoganyBooks $7.19 1 $7.19
Patina (Track #2) • MahoganyBooks $7.19 1 $7.19
Ghost (Track #1) (PB) • MahoganyBooks $7.19 1 $7.19
Good Kind of Trouble, A • MahoganyBooks $7.19 1 $7.19
Children Around the World • Amazon Business $6.69 1 $6.69
Homes Around the World • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
DK Readers L1: Homes Around the World (DK Readers Level 1) • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99

Materials cost

$689.91

Vendor shipping charges

 $11.10

Sales tax

 $34.50

3rd party payment processing fee

$10.35

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$775.86

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$136.92

Total project goal

$912.78

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $912.78

15 Donors

-$756.89

Donations toward project cost

-$669.61

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$87.28

match offer

-$125.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$106.25

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$18.75

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$30.89

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