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Ms. Phelan from Hayward, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Reading and Learning About Different Perspectives Through History

Help me give my students a multitude of books that will tell multiple perspectives that often times history books have overlooked!

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Phelan's classroom raised $698

This project is fully funded

Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

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 come from a variety of cultures, low income families and hard working middle class families, which therefore results with plenty of hardships for them on a daily basis. This being said though, they are incredibly resilient. They are dedicated students with wonderful attitudes, despite their disadvantages. The struggles they overcome are more than many adults can handle, but they do so with a smile on their face.

My students deserve a learning experience just as much as those who are privileged in a school that has private funding and a multitude of resources.

My Project

In a time where empathy is vital to learn about each other and our past I strive to cultivate a classroom that allows students to learn about the events and experiences that have shaped our history as a country and state. In my entire career of teaching, I have always been left wanting more from my students history textbooks. Too often are they extremely outdated and they often only tell one perspective and lack engagement.

Through this project, I want to encourage my students to hear about all the perspectives that make up our history as Americans.

The majority of my students come from a low socio-economic status and are English Language Learners. There is a huge struggle to identify with what is being taught in 4th/5th grade social studies curriculum.

These books will continue to enhance a print-rich classroom that I strive to create.

My goal is to blend History and Language Arts within my curriculum (for distance learning and in the classroom). Through these books and their various written perspectives it will increase cross cultural awareness and understanding. With the chapter books where the main character is a child or young person living through a specific historical event in US it will help my students identify, learn about, and engage with our past. I hope to not only promote a general knowledge of historical events, but a love of reading, and a validation of their perspective in life.

Ms. Phelan Bowman Elementary School Grades 3-5

Equity Focus

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

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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More than three‑quarters 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
A Broken Flute: The Native Experience in Books for Children (Contemporary Native American Communities) • Amazon Business $57.00 1 $57.00
A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl, Belmont Plantation, Virginia 1859 (Dear America Series) • Amazon Business $22.75 1 $22.75
Before Columbus: The Americas of 1491 • Amazon Business $22.49 1 $22.49
Sacagawea (Carter G Woodson Award Book (Awards)) • Amazon Business $19.99 1 $19.99
Turtle Island: The Story of North America's First People • Amazon Business $18.99 1 $18.99
Hiawatha and the Peacemaker • Amazon Business $15.54 1 $15.54
A Young People's History of the United States: Columbus to the War on Terror (For Young People Series) • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People (ReVisioning History for Young People) • Amazon Business $14.49 1 $14.49
Struggle for a Continent: The French and Indian Wars: 1689-1763 (American Story (Hardcover)) • Amazon Business $14.39 1 $14.39
Mumbet's Declaration of Independence • Amazon Business $14.28 1 $14.28
So Tall Within: Sojourner Truth's Long Walk Toward Freedom • Amazon Business $14.19 1 $14.19
Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom • Amazon Business $13.99 1 $13.99
A Different Mirror for Young People: A History of Multicultural America (For Young People Series) • Amazon Business $13.69 1 $13.69
Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down (Jane Addams Honor Book (Awards)) • Amazon Business $13.19 1 $13.19
The Birchbark House • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
Rosa • Amazon Business $12.49 1 $12.49
Buffalo Bird Girl: A Hidatsa Story • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
The People Shall Continue • Amazon Business $9.95 1 $9.95
Frederick's Journey: The Life of Frederick Douglass (A Big Words Book (8)) • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Life in a Longhouse Village (Native Nations of North America (Paperback)) • Amazon Business $8.95 1 $8.95
Native Homes (Native Nations of North America (Paperback)) • Amazon Business $8.95 1 $8.95
Nations of the Western Great Lakes (Native Nations of North America (Paperback)) • Amazon Business $8.95 1 $8.95
Children of the Longhouse • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
My Name Is Sally Little Song • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Squanto's Journey: The Story of the First Thanksgiving • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
A More Perfect Union: The Story of Our Constitution • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
1621: A New Look at Thanksgiving (National Geographic) • Amazon Business $7.95 1 $7.95
Mounds of earth and shell (Native Dwellings) • Amazon Business $7.95 1 $7.95
The New Americans: Colonial Times: 1620-1689 (American Story (Paperback)) • Amazon Business $7.59 1 $7.59
Sacajawea • Amazon Business $7.59 1 $7.59
Between Earth & Sky: Legends of Native American Sacred Places • Amazon Business $7.59 1 $7.59
Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans • Amazon Business $7.04 1 $7.04
The Legend of the Bluebonnet • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains (annotated) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Arrow over the Door (Puffin Chapters) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Soft Rain: A Story of the Cherokee Trail of Tears • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Exploration and Conquest: The Americas After Columbus: 1500-1620 (American Story (Paperback)) • Amazon Business $5.79 1 $5.79
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry • Amazon Business $5.69 1 $5.69

Materials cost

$483.32

Vendor shipping charges

 $27.93

Sales tax

 $44.22

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.25

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$592.72

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$104.60

Total project goal

$697.32

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $697.32

5 Donors

-$519.64

Donations toward project cost

-$442.44

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$77.20

match offer

-$176.80

Match offer toward project cost

-$150.28

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$26.52

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$0.88

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