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Mrs. Lazarus from Hillsborough, NC is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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People of Influence -- Biographies that Teach!

My students need well written biographies that are engaging and meaningful!

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Lazarus's classroom raised $357

This project is fully funded

My Students

Our school is nestled in the small town in North Carolina. We are a community Title I school with about 450 students and have a growing ESL population. Students at our school love learning and take pride in being a Brown Cougar!

Our fourth graders are on amazing learning teams, changing classes and working together with 2 teachers.

Speaking, listening, reading and writing are the foundational building blocks on which all other learning is built. To deliver this instruction in a meaningful way we use a variety of resources, including rigorous text discussions, accountable talk, small group reading instruction, book clubs and whole group mini-lessons that focus on common core standards. Considering that our physical building is over 40 years old and the curriculum is constantly changing, some of our materials are out of date. Students in fourth grade engage with nonfiction in both reading and writing.

My Project

Non-fiction reading skills are very important for college and career readiness. My fourth graders love reading narrative nonfiction biographies from the "Who Is" and "Who Was" series of books. They enjoy reading about famous historical figures, artists, explorers, and more.

Students will participate in daily biography book clubs based on the type of impact the person they are reading about made in the world.

Students reading about various artists will meet together to discuss the early life, young adult life, challenges, influences, and contributions the person made to our world.

Fourth graders will use their narrative and informational reading skills to make meaning from these biographies provided by this project.

Mrs. Lazarus Grady A Brown Elementary School Grades 3-5

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This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Hillsborough, NC View local requests

More than half 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
Who Were The Three Stooges? (Who Was?) • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Who Was Jane Austen? • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Who Was Winston Churchill? • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Who Was Coretta Scott King? • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Who Is Aretha Franklin? (Who Was?) • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Who Is the Dalai Lama? (Who Was?) • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Who Was Andrew Jackson? • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Who Was Frederick Douglass? • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Who Is Stevie Wonder? (Who Was?) • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Who Was Louis Armstrong? • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Who Was Andy Warhol? • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Who Was Jules Verne? • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Who Was Susan B. Anthony? • Amazon Business $5.97 1 $5.97
Who Was Alexander the Great? • Amazon Business $5.77 1 $5.77
Who Was Clara Barton? • Amazon Business $5.76 1 $5.76
Who Was Frida Kahlo? • Amazon Business $5.69 1 $5.69
Who Was Princess Diana? • Amazon Business $5.69 1 $5.69
Who Was Bob Marley? • Amazon Business $5.69 1 $5.69
Who Was Ulysses S. Grant? • Amazon Business $5.51 1 $5.51
Who Was Betsy Ross? • Amazon Business $5.48 1 $5.48
Who Was Cesar Chavez? • Amazon Business $5.44 1 $5.44
Who Is Malala Yousafzai? (Who Was?) • Amazon Business $5.40 1 $5.40
Who Was Woodrow Wilson? • Amazon Business $5.39 1 $5.39
Who Was Galileo? • Amazon Business $5.21 1 $5.21
Who Was Jacques Cousteau? • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Who Is Stan Lee? (Who Was?) • Amazon Business $4.95 1 $4.95
Who Was Pete Seeger? • Amazon Business $4.83 1 $4.83
Who Is Pope Francis? (Who Was?) • Amazon Business $4.79 1 $4.79
Who Was Isaac Newton? • Amazon Business $4.54 1 $4.54
Who Was George Washington Carver? • Amazon Business $4.53 1 $4.53
Who Was Nelson Mandela? • Amazon Business $4.51 1 $4.51
Who Was Alfred Hitchcock? • Amazon Business $4.49 1 $4.49
Who Is Ralph Lauren? (Who Was?) • Amazon Business $4.47 1 $4.47
Who Is George Lucas? (Who Was?) • Amazon Business $4.44 1 $4.44
Who Was Franklin Roosevelt? • Amazon Business $4.36 1 $4.36
Who Is Dolly Parton? (Who Was?) • Amazon Business $4.34 1 $4.34
Who Was Laura Ingalls Wilder? • Amazon Business $4.28 1 $4.28
Who Is Bruce Springsteen? (Who Was?) • Amazon Business $4.28 1 $4.28
Who Is Jeff Kinney? (Who Was?) • Amazon Business $4.28 1 $4.28
Who Was Marco Polo? • Amazon Business $4.28 1 $4.28
Who Was Sally Ride? • Amazon Business $4.22 1 $4.22
Who Is Steven Spielberg? (Who Was?) • Amazon Business $4.22 1 $4.22
Who Was Ronald Reagan? • Amazon Business $4.11 1 $4.11
Who Was Sitting Bull? • Amazon Business $4.09 1 $4.09
Who Was Charlie Chaplin? • Amazon Business $4.01 1 $4.01
Who Is Hillary Clinton? (Who Was?) • Amazon Business $3.77 1 $3.77
Who Was Edgar Allan Poe? • Amazon Business $3.77 1 $3.77
Who Was Ferdinand Magellan? • Amazon Business $3.77 1 $3.77
Who Was Jesse Owens? • Amazon Business $3.50 1 $3.50
Who Was Lucille Ball? • Amazon Business $3.12 1 $3.12

Materials cost

$249.82

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $19.49

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.75

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$303.06

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$53.48

Total project goal

$356.54

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $356.54

3 Donors

-$347.72

Donations toward project cost

-$303.06

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$44.66

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$8.82

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