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

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Multicultural Myths Re-imagined

Help me give my students shared access to books that reimagine myths and folktales for modern times.

FULLY FUNDED! Mr. Douglas's classroom raised $362

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 Students

Middle schoolers have a reputation for hating reading. And our younger generations are said to lack the attention span to sit down to a good book. Our students are here to prove them wrong. Our students are a mighty group of middle schoolers from deep East Oakland who dream, achieve and prepare for success in high school, college, and life. And a big part of that is our school's culture of reading. Our students read books of their choosing in at least one of their core classes each day. They compete to see which grade level can read the most. They smile for pictures when they reach milestones. And they champion their favorite books with one another.

To quote JK Rowling, "If you think you don't like reading, you just haven't found the right book yet." And so we work together at our school to help everyone find just right books.

These are books that are neither too hard nor too easy--books with just the right push. And these are books that match our interests, our curiosities.

My Project

In their distance-learning English class this fall, our students are reading the modern fantasy adventure "Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordian and exploring how it echoes the themes of Greek mythology. This unit is engaging and rigorous, but it's not culturally responsive to our community of African American, Latino, and Tongan students.

Our students deserve to see kids that look like themselves as the heroes of the story and the stories of their ancestors honored.

This project will add 2 copies each of new titles to our shared 6th grade Kindle library. While learning from home, each of our students has a donated Kindle with a large shared library of high-interest books so that they can get lost in the pages of a text that's just-right for them and continue building their independent reading skills. We will purchase a range of new adventures to compliment our existing independent reading library of multicultural myths and folklore, including the following:

"Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia, in which a 7th grade boy accidentally opens a passage between our world and one where ancient African gods battle with the characters of African American legend.

"Paola Santiago and the River of Tears" by Tehlor Kay Mejia, in which a 12-year old whose classmate had drowned the previous year encounters La Llorona.

"The Storm Runner" by J. C. Cervantes, in which a boy in New Mexico discovers what he always thought was his physical disability is actually part of his connection to the ancient Mayan gods.

"One Boy, No Water" by Lehua Parker, in which a boy's island life is made boring by his bizarre allergy to water until he dives into an adventure in which Pacific island myths and legends become real.

Mr. Douglas Elmhurst United Middle School Grades 6-8

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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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

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Paola Santiago And the River of Tears - Kindle ebook • Amazon $10.99 2 $21.98
Race to the Sun • Amazon $10.99 2 $21.98
Pashmina • Amazon $9.99 2 $19.98
Children of Blood and Bone - Kindle Edition • Amazon $9.99 2 $19.98
American Born Chinese • Amazon $9.99 2 $19.98
Kane Chronicles, Book One: The Red Pyramid: The Graphic Novel • Amazon $9.99 2 $19.98
Charlie Hernández & the League of Shadows • Amazon $8.99 2 $17.98
Loki's Wolves (The Blackwell Pages Book 1) • Amazon $7.99 2 $15.98
Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky (Volume 1) (Tristan Strong Novel, A) • Amazon $0.99 2 $1.98
The Jumbies • Amazon $6.64 2 $13.28
Aru Shah and the End of Time: A Pandava Novel Book 1 (Pandava Series) • Amazon $5.99 2 $11.98
Dragon Pearl (Rick Riordan Presents) • Amazon $5.99 2 $11.98
The Storm Runner • Amazon $5.99 2 $11.98
Sal and Gabi Break the Universe (Sal and Gabi Novel, A Book 1) • Amazon $5.99 2 $11.98
Telesā : The Covenant Keeper (The Telesa Series Book 1) • Amazon $4.99 2 $9.98
The Serpent's Secret (Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond #1) • Amazon $4.99 2 $9.98
One Boy, No Water (Niuhi Shark Saga Book 1) • Amazon $4.99 2 $9.98

Materials cost

$250.96

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $22.96

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.76

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$307.68

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$54.30

Total project goal

$361.98

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $361.98

2 Donors

-$178.78

Donations toward project cost

-$155.71

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$23.07

match offer

-$178.79

Match offer toward project cost

-$151.97

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$26.82

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$4.41

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