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Mr. Garza from San Francisco, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Oprah Would Be Proud...7th Grade Historical Fiction Book Clubs!

Help me give my students the book sets they need to dive into historical fiction book clubs! Fascinating texts, historical perspectives, academic conversations, and diverse authors? YES PLEASE!!! And audio equipment so ALL students can access rigorous texts.

FULLY FUNDED! Mr. Garza's classroom raised $2,914

This project is fully funded

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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

My students are some of the most brilliant, generous, collaborative, creative, and quirky 7th graders you will ever meet! They are a representation of all that makes San Francisco unique - a special group of kids who want to make themselves, their families, their community, and their country proud by achieving their dreams and doing so in a way that makes our world more just, peaceful, and loving. And with all the middle school humor they can muster!

They are Bay Area and San Francisco natives, immigrants, multilingual, scholars and athletes and artists and tech experts, individuals with learning and physical differences, and students who are proud of their gender and sexual orientation.

They are full and genuine human beings. And they are ready to lead.

My students' interests in English Language Arts are as diverse as the students themselves. Some can't wait to dig in to fantasy and science fiction and horror books. Others rush through their argumentative essay so they can continue writing their own personal poetry collection. Some students' speaking skills are off the charts and they will be our future mayors, governors, and presidents. And ALL deeply understand the power of literacy.

My Project

At the end of this historical fiction book club unit, we want our students to know that history is not just a bunch of boring facts to be memorized but rather a collection of fascinating stories that can help us understand our modern life and offer lessons about how we should strive to shape our collective future. We want them to celebrate the achievements of those that came before us and also understand the hard truths of how those achievements came about. We want them to grapple with these stories in partnership with each other through lively and rambunctious book clubs. And to do that, we need books, books, and more books!

The curriculum we're using to guide our instruction this quarter is from Columbia University's Teacher's College Reading and Writing Project - a rigorous, culturally relevant, flexible curriculum that will help our students practice the reading skills we teach in their own historical fiction novels.

This way, they can reinforce our daily lessons in a book at their level so that, no matter their current reading level, they will be in a position to grow their skill set quickly and do so while focusing on 2-3 different historical eras - and novels - throughout the unit. The vast majority of our students are reading behind grade level and we know that this unit will push students to continue making rapid progress this year and, most importantly, spark their joy for reading!

As adults, we know the value and necessity of understanding our own history and the history of those that are different from us - and the costs when we don't. Your financial support of these book clubs will help put students on the path towards being critical historians and lifelong readers - exactly what we need right now!

Mr. Garza Everett 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
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Insignia? - Insignia CD Boombox (NS-B4111-C) - Black • Best Buy Education $25.73 6 $154.38
Refugee • AKJ Education $12.40 12 $148.80
Betty Before X • AKJ Education $12.40 12 $148.80
V7 HA310-2NP - headphones • Best Buy Education $6.04 18 $108.72
Brown Girl Dreaming • AKJ Education $8.02 12 $96.24
Baseball Saved Us • AKJ Education $7.99 12 $95.88
Stella by Starlight • AKJ Education $7.29 12 $87.48
The Book Thief • AKJ Education $6.94 12 $83.28
The Lions of Little Rock • AKJ Education $6.56 12 $78.72
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate • AKJ Education $6.56 12 $78.72
Code Talker • AKJ Education $6.56 12 $78.72
Full Cicada Moon • AKJ Education $6.56 12 $78.72
Fever 1793 • AKJ Education $6.56 12 $78.72
New Shoes • AKJ Education $5.83 12 $69.96
P.S. Be Eleven • AKJ Education $5.83 12 $69.96
When My Name Was Keoko • AKJ Education $5.83 12 $69.96
Al Capone Does My Shirts • AKJ Education $5.83 12 $69.96
Number the Stars • AKJ Education $5.78 12 $69.36
One Crazy Summer • AKJ Education $5.59 12 $67.08
Esperanza Rising • AKJ Education $5.59 12 $67.08
A Long Walk to Water • AKJ Education $5.28 12 $63.36
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes (Puffin Modern Classics) • AKJ Education $5.10 12 $61.20
Sylvia & Aki • AKJ Education $5.10 12 $61.20
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson • AKJ Education $5.10 12 $61.20
Riding Freedom • AKJ Education $5.10 12 $61.20
Magic Tree House #3: Mummies in the Morning • AKJ Education $4.37 12 $52.44
Magic Tree House #1: Dinosaurs Before Dark • AKJ Education $4.18 12 $50.16

Materials cost

$2,211.30

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $202.33

3rd party payment processing fee

$33.17

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$2,476.80

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$437.08

Total project goal

$2,913.88

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $2,913.88

10 Donors

-$2,638.15

Donations toward project cost

-$2,434.30

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$203.85

match offer

-$50.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$42.50

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$7.50

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$225.73

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