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Mrs. Eastman from San Ramon, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Powerful Stories to Teach Tolerance and Understanding

Help me give my students access to powerful refugee stories to help them gain empathy and a global perspective.

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Eastman's classroom raised $927

This project is fully funded

My Students

I teach 6th grade Language Arts and 6th-8th-grade Reading Intervention. The students who share my classroom range from the highest-achieving to those most in need of inspiration in order to discover the love of reading and increase their achievements. They are spirited and culturally diverse middle schoolers, with equally-diverse learning needs. My students have big ideas, are eager learners, and have ambitious goals for their future, and I am passionate about my quest to help them meet those goals!

Critical readers are critical thinkers--in a rigorous environment where students are challenged to engage, question, and think with passion, students are preparing for life.

Every day, I am asked several times, "Mrs. Eastman, can you help me find a good book?" My students want to read, learn, and grow. As with most middle schoolers, they are beginning to broaden their horizons and become aware of issues in the world around them. Often, they find the issues they are most passionate about in the books they read, and, they too, know how important reading is to their future.

My Project

Humans are wired to enjoy a good story--and good stories are more meaningful when shared with a friend. It is through these shared stories that we can teach empathy, tolerance and a global understanding. This project would supply our 6th-grade students with multiple copies of extremely well-written refugee stories. Students will read these stories in book clubs (groups of 4-6 students) where they will apply reading strategies as well as discussion and communication skills necessary for success in the 21st century.

Reading these refugee stories helps students gain insight and understanding into the experiences and perspectives of their peers, their own families, and the fabric of America, a nation of refugees.

This project will impact the entire 6th-grade student population at our school, as the sets of books will be shared and rotated from teacher to teacher. In recent years, our school has been a magnet for students from many countries around the world, some of which are discussed in these books. Through this group work, students will delve deeply into themes affecting our world today making them better local and global citizens.

Mrs. Eastman Windemere Ranch Middle School Grades 6-8

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

San Ramon, CA View local requests 500 students impacted 4donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Echo • Amazon Business $15.43 5 $77.15
Refugee • Amazon Business $12.65 6 $75.90
Nowhere Boy • Amazon Business $9.99 6 $59.94
Escape from Aleppo • Amazon Business $9.49 6 $56.94
Outcasts United: The Story of a Refugee Soccer Team That Changed a Town • Amazon Business $9.26 6 $55.56
90 Miles to Havana • Amazon Business $7.67 6 $46.02
A Long Pitch Home • Amazon Business $8.99 5 $44.95
Shooting Kabul (The Kabul Chronicles) • Amazon Business $7.49 6 $44.94
A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story • Amazon Business $7.19 6 $43.14
The Red Pencil • Amazon Business $6.98 6 $41.88
The Only Road • Amazon Business $6.59 6 $39.54
Inside Out and Back Again • Amazon Business $5.29 6 $31.74
Enrique's Journey (The Young Adult Adaptation): The True Story of a Boy Determined to Reunite with His Mother • Amazon Business $3.60 6 $21.60
The Turtle of Oman • Amazon Business $3.19 6 $19.14
The Arrival • Amazon Business $14.27 1 $14.27
The Journey • Amazon Business $11.61 1 $11.61

Materials cost

$684.32

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $62.62

3rd party payment processing fee

$10.26

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$787.20

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$138.92

Total project goal

$926.12

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $926.12

4 Donors

-$926.12

Donations toward project cost

-$787.20

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$138.92

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