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Ms. Barco from E Palo Alto CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Reading in Spanish is Magic

My students need 30 copies of "Like water for Chocolate" in Spanish to continue enhancing their Spanish literacy skills.

  • $517 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! 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

I am teaching Spanish for Native Speakers II at East Palo Alto, a city surrounded by guns and drugs where literacy is not a priority for teens. The only reading that they do, it's in the classes.

My students are from a place that used to be called the murder capital of USA.

Things are a bit better these days, still this is a very poor community where kids choose every day to come to school, go to work, join a gang, drop-out or get pregnant. There are only a few who are actually thinking about finishing high school and going attending college.

My Project

I am teaching Spanish as well as cooking. These books will help students understand the importance of cooking in literature and how food has been used as a medium to connects people through tick and thin regardless of race and culture. Also, these books will expose students to magic realism.

I remember when I was a little girl in a third world country, reading used Reader Digest with gusto every month.

I wanted to discover more and more about the world. I hope that my students develop, cultivate and maintain a passion for reading.

Ms. Barco
Grades 9-12

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Como Agua Para Chocolate • AKJ Books $12.16 30 $364.80

Materials cost

$364.80

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $33.38

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.47

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$438.65

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$77.41

Total project goal

$516.06

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $516.06

28 Donors

-$513.41

Donations toward project cost

-$438.65

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$74.76

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$2.65

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