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Mr. Rademacher from Madison WI is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Speaking to Enlighten, Entertain, and Educate

Help me give my students high quality scripts, stories and poetry to bring to life with their own voices.

  • $285 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

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My Students

My students are a highly diverse group of young people from Wisconsin. Ours is a large urban high school that serves 2200 students from all backgrounds. My students are united by their passion for public speaking and acting. They work all year preparing and performing speeches in and out of school.

Finding their voice and speaking passionately affects every aspect of their lives; it gives them the confidence they need for their futures.

These students perform throughout the year in school and at speech and debate competitions. They're very successful, and most go on to earn scholarships, attend college, and make a difference in our society.

My Project

Our students prepare and perform many different types of speeches. These range from original persuasive and informative speeches, to interpretations of drama, prose, and poetry, to speeches for special occasions. They present in school classrooms, assemblies, and in competitions around the country. Some performances require the use of published literature.

Many students cannot afford to purchase their own scripts or anthologies of stories and poetry.

These supplies will give students high quality source material, and allow them to interpret and bring them to life. The full range of speech areas need to be fully accessible, so all students can make their voices heard.

Mr. Rademacher
Grades 9-12

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Life's Journeys According to Mister Rogers: Things to Remember Along the Way • Amazon Business $15.89 1 $15.89
Beauty's Daughter, Monster, The Gimmick: Three Plays • Amazon Business $15.00 1 $15.00
Favorite Folktales from Around the World (The Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library) • Amazon Business $14.95 1 $14.95
If This Isn't Nice, What Is? (Much) Expanded Second Edition: The Graduation Speeches and Other Words to Live By • Amazon Business $14.01 1 $14.01
Fearless Girls, Wise Women & Beloved Sisters: Heroines in Folktales from Around the World • Amazon Business $13.08 1 $13.08
The World Is Waiting for You: Graduation Speeches to Live By from Activists, Writers, and Visionaries • Amazon Business $13.06 1 $13.06
World Folktales • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
The Apology • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
Queen Bees and Wannabes, 3rd Edition: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boys, and the New Realities of Girl World • Amazon Business $12.74 1 $12.74
I Am an Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World • Amazon Business $11.74 1 $11.74
Fairview • Amazon Business $11.69 1 $11.69
You Are Special: Neighborly Words of Wisdom from Mister Rogers • Amazon Business $11.29 1 $11.29
The Eight: Reindeer Monologues • Amazon Business $9.95 1 $9.95
How to Be a Sister: A Love Story with a Twist of Autism • Amazon Business $9.12 1 $9.12
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: The Poetry of Mister Rogers • Amazon Business $8.92 1 $8.92
Dear Mister Rogers, Does It Ever Rain in Your Neighborhood?: Letters to Mister Rogers • Amazon Business $8.49 1 $8.49
Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Wartime Sarajevo, Revised Edition • Amazon Business $7.79 1 $7.79
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood: Henrietta Meets Someone New (Little Golden Book) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99

Materials cost

$208.69

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.13

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$241.82

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$42.67

Total project goal

$284.49

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$284.49

1 Donor

-$284.49

Donations toward project cost

-$241.82

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$42.67

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$0.00

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