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Mrs. Bigham from Highland, UT is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Novels and Picture Books to Study and Learn From!

Help me give my students a variety of diverse novels and picture books to study, learn from, and enjoy!

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Bigham's classroom raised $999

This project is fully funded

My Students

My students are some of the best 7th-grade students in the world. My school serves around 1,300 students and I teach English Language Arts to 240 of them. I also teach all students in the 7th grade who have Reading and Writing IEPs. These students with special needs are some of the most incredible students I have ever had. I have witnessed in both my regular and special education classroom students strive, study, and succeed.

My students may come from a demographically homogeneous pool, but they are each so unique, special, and individual.

They each have such different skills and talents and I want to do all I can to best serve each one of them. Sometimes, this feels close to impossible because there are so many, but it is my mission to strive for the learning of each and every student.

My Project

Diverse literature in classroom libraries is of the utmost importance. An incredible thing about books is that they function as mirrors and sliding glass doors. It's necessary for students to see themselves reflected in stories that they read, but it's also so important for them to use the story as a lens to see what other people go through, and maybe step across the barrier into a more empathetic world. This is particularly important during this time of upheaval brought on by the pandemic and other events. Having access to this kind of literature will have a profound impact on students' emotional and mental well-being. This is why I've chosen the variety of novels that I have. However, I don't think that it's just novels that are beneficial.

Students in middle school learn from a variety of diverse literature, whether they be picture books or above-level novels.

I've chosen a variety of diverse picture books in this DonorsChoose request as well. I have several different units that I teach that involve using picture books in addition to novels. For example, picture books are a great resource when teaching elements of fiction such as plot and theme. They're also helpful when teaching critical reading skills and looking beyond essays as a traditional form of text. But I don't always want to use classic picture books to achieve this end - I think it's valuable to use diverse picture books that give students the experience to, once again, either see themselves reflected in literature or head into another world. And using real, tangible books brings a level of comfort missing from this COVID-19 pandemic-ridden world.

These diverse literature choices will be so valuable in educating and entertaining my students. Please consider donating!

Mrs. Bigham Mountain Ridge Junior High School Grades 6-8 Highland, UT View local requests 240 students impacted 1donor

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Baby-sitters Club Graphic Novels #1-7: A Graphix Collection: Full-Color Edition (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphix) • Amazon Business $45.96 1 $45.96
Click 4 Book Boxed Set A Click Graphic Novel • Amazon Business $31.40 1 $31.40
Five Kingdoms Complete Collection: Sky Raiders; Rogue Knight; Crystal Keepers; Death Weavers; Time Jumpers • Amazon Business $27.99 1 $27.99
All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team (Newbery Honor Book) • Amazon Business $20.99 1 $20.99
What To Do With a Box • Amazon Business $18.99 1 $18.99
Together • Amazon Business $18.69 1 $18.69
The Little Ghost Who Was a Quilt • Amazon Business $17.18 1 $17.18
Winter Sleep: A Hibernation Story • Amazon Business $17.09 1 $17.09
When Santa Was a Baby • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
Red, White, and Whole • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
Someone Builds the Dream • Amazon Business $16.29 1 $16.29
Alone • Amazon Business $16.19 1 $16.19
What About Will • Amazon Business $16.19 1 $16.19
Last Stop on the Reindeer Express • Amazon Business $16.19 1 $16.19
Pick a Pine Tree • Amazon Business $16.07 1 $16.07
Apple Cake: A Gratitude • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
My Heart • Amazon Business $15.89 1 $15.89
Neighbors • Amazon Business $15.69 1 $15.69
We Dream of Space • Amazon Business $15.29 1 $15.29
Gustavo, the Shy Ghost • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
Gloom Town • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
Time is a Flower • Amazon Business $14.77 1 $14.77
Moon Pops • Amazon Business $14.40 1 $14.40
The One Thing You'd Save • Amazon Business $14.40 1 $14.40
Everything You Need for a Treehouse: (Children?s Treehouse Book, Story Book for Kids, Nature Book for Kids) • Amazon Business $14.39 1 $14.39
Your Name Is a Song • Amazon Business $14.37 1 $14.37
Outside In • Amazon Business $13.79 1 $13.79
Ten Beautiful Things • Amazon Business $13.69 1 $13.69
We Are Water Protectors • Amazon Business $13.63 1 $13.63
Kalamata's Kitchen • Amazon Business $13.60 1 $13.60
The Anti-Book • Amazon Business $13.60 1 $13.60
The 1619 Project: Born on the Water • Amazon Business $13.41 1 $13.41
Milo Imagines the World • Amazon Business $13.36 1 $13.36
The Edge of Anything • Amazon Business $13.16 1 $13.16
Fatima's Great Outdoors • Amazon Business $13.00 1 $13.00
The Keeper of Wild Words: (Nature for Kids, Exploring Nature with Children) • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
What We'll Build: Plans For Our Together Future • Amazon Business $12.89 1 $12.89
This Was Our Pact • Amazon Business $12.60 1 $12.60
I Am Every Good Thing: An inspiring and critically acclaimed celebration of black boyhood • Amazon Business $12.52 1 $12.52
How Winston Delivered Christmas • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
This Is Not My Hat • Amazon Business $11.65 1 $11.65
The Tree in Me • Amazon Business $10.89 1 $10.89
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse • Amazon Business $10.35 1 $10.35
Garvey's Choice • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry, And The Big Hungry Bear • Amazon Business $9.86 1 $9.86
The Gilded Ones • Amazon Business $9.49 1 $9.49
The Inheritance Games (The Inheritance Games, 1) • Amazon Business $9.34 1 $9.34
Different--A Great Thing to Be! • Amazon Business $9.10 1 $9.10
American as Paneer Pie • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Up for Air • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Tomatoes for Neela • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Red and Green and Blue and White • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
An Ordinary Day • Amazon Business $8.69 1 $8.69
The List of Things That Will Not Change • Amazon Business $8.49 1 $8.49
Fallout • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
The Middle Kid • Amazon Business $3.28 1 $3.28

Materials cost

$806.68

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$12.10

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$848.78

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$149.78

Total project goal

$998.56

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $998.56

1 Donor

-$998.56

Donations toward project cost

-$848.78

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$149.78

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