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Ms. Jones from Springfield IL is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Navigating Social Issues Through Book Club

My students need an individual copy of this book, All American Boys: they will devour it, and the discussion to follow will be profound.

  • $415 goal

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Celebrate Black Teachers and Students

This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.

My Students

"Keep Calm and Read On" was the choice quote of the Southeast Book Club last year. This quote made it onto the backs of t-shirts, social media pages, and even graffiti in the bathrooms. My students are urban in all ways, and they are voracious readers. The Book Club is the cool place to be on Thursday afternoons. Every stereotypical teen clique is represented in book club. We are a family: we respect each other and our differences, so we read about each other and protagonists with differences. My students typically want to read about marginalized voices: this group of kids is the most accepting group of people I have ever met. They want to discuss controversial issues, they want to share their trials and perseverance, and most of all they want to read anything they can get their hands on.

My Project

The story, All American Boys, is told in dual-narration: one black protagonist, one white protagonist. The main conflict of the novel is alleged police brutality on a minority. The story is told two ways, with two different perspectives. My students will be able to exhibit the true essence of a book club: intellectual conversation about literature. The topic of this book is both relevant and engaging: therefore, the benefits of this project are immeasurable. Teenagers all across the country are having to grapple with what the media is showing them about race relations--this book will offer my students an opportunity to develop opinions and to have a safe-place to share ideas.

Ms. Jones
Grades 9-12

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
All American Boys • Amazon Business $10.58 30 $317.40

Materials cost

$317.40

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.76

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$352.16

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$62.15

Total project goal

$414.31

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $414.31

6 Donors

-$414.31

Donations toward project cost

-$352.16

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$62.15

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 $0.00

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