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Mr. Tumino from Bronx, NY is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Students Starving for Social Studies Selections!

My students need social studies books to keep them engaged during reading workshop, and as an added bonus, these books will help to fulfill the state standards!

FULLY FUNDED! Mr. Tumino's classroom raised $390

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

How can we ask students to think critically when they don't have a clear view of the world? History books offer a different perspective on the world, help to build schema, and make it possible to accept new information in future reading and reading the world.

When presented with a reading on the Underground Railroad, my third graders were shocked that something like this "happened for real?!" After a class conversation my students were hungry for more.

They wanted to know what else happened long ago in the world and in our country. I work in a high poverty urban area in New York State. With materials being very limited, our libraries are scarce and I am unable to provide students with the valuable resources they are desperately seeking.

My Project

A comprehensive history section of my classroom library will help students to explore a new and exciting genre. It will show them different view points of the world and help students to create reading identities other than their current reading levels. When students are highly engaged in books they are able to do higher level thinking which can be guided towards critical thinking. When viewing books through a critical lens they will be able to explore issues such as power, race, and gender. They will be able to use this new lens to make sense of the world today, and how they fit into it.

When students are able to analyze and think critically they are able to come up with a plan for change.

This can be the first step towards students making proactive choices, taking ownership of their actions, and taking responsibility for their own lives.

Mr. Tumino PS 277 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.

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Nearly all 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
Color of My Words Lynn Joseph • AKJ BOOKS $5.40 1 $5.40
Who Was Thomas Jefferson? Dennis Brindell Fradin, John O'Brien (Illustrator), Nancy Harrison (Illustrator) • AKJ BOOKS $4.26 1 $4.26
Who Was Martin Luther King, Jr.? Bonnie Bader, Nancy Harrison (Illustrator) • AKJ BOOKS $4.26 1 $4.26
Who Was Sacagawea? Judith Bloom Fradin, Dennis Brindell Fradin, Nancy Harrison (Illustrator), Val Paul Taylor (Illustrator) • AKJ BOOKS $4.26 1 $4.26
Who Was George Washington? Roberta Edwards, Nancy Harrison (Illustrator), True Kelley (Illustrator) • AKJ BOOKS $4.26 1 $4.26
Rosa Nikki Giovanni, Bryan Collier (Illustrator) • AKJ BOOKS $6.83 1 $6.83
Who Was Harriet Tubman? Yona Zeldis McDonough, Nancy Harrison (Illustrator) • AKJ BOOKS $4.26 1 $4.26
America the Beautiful: A Pop-up Book Robert Sabuda (Illustrator), Robert Clarke Sabuda (Illustrator) • AKJ BOOKS $18.43 1 $18.43
Two Bobbies: A True Story of Hurricane Katrina, Friendship, and Survival Kirby Larson, Mary Nethery, Jean Cassels (Illustrator) • AKJ BOOKS $11.85 1 $11.85
Who Was John F. Kennedy? Yona Zeldis McDonough, Nancy Harrison (Illustrator), Jill Weber (Illustrator) • AKJ BOOKS $4.26 1 $4.26
Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood up by Sitting Down Andrea Davis Pinkney, Brian Pinkney (Illustrator) • AKJ BOOKS $11.69 1 $11.69
Who Was Ronald Reagan? Joyce Milton, Nancy Harrison (Illustrator), Elizabeth Wolf (Illustrator) • AKJ BOOKS $4.26 1 $4.26
If You Sailed on the Mayflower in 1620 Ann Mcgovern, Anna DeVito (Illustrator) • AKJ BOOKS $6.30 1 $6.30
Trail of Tears Joseph Bruchac • AKJ BOOKS $3.60 1 $3.60
If You Lived When There Was Slavery in America Anne Kamma, Pamela Johnson (Illustrator) • AKJ BOOKS $6.30 1 $6.30
Ruby Bridges Goes To School: My True Story Ruby Bridges • AKJ BOOKS $3.60 1 $3.60
A Picture Book of Frederick Douglass David A. Adler, Samuel Byrd (Illustrator) • AKJ BOOKS $5.93 1 $5.93
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Journey to Change the World... One Child at a Time Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin, Adapted by Sarah Thomson • AKJ BOOKS $8.36 1 $8.36
The Underground Railroad: An Interactive History Adventure Allison Lassieur • AKJ BOOKS $6.27 1 $6.27
Ancient Rome and Pompeii: A Nonfiction Companion to Vacation under the Volcano (Magic Tree House Research Guide Series) Mary Pope Osborne, Natalie Pope Boyce, Salvatore Murdocca (Illustrator) • AKJ BOOKS $4.50 1 $4.50
"A" Is for Abigail: An Almanac of Amazing American Women Lynne Cheney, Robin Preiss Glasser (Illustrator), Robin Preiss Glasser (Introduction) • AKJ BOOKS $12.62 1 $12.62
Freedom's Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Stories Ellen Levine • AKJ BOOKS $7.21 1 $7.21
Still I Rise: A Graphic History of African Americans Roland Laird, Taneshia Nash Laird, Elihu "Adofo" Bey (Illustrator), Foreword by Charles Johnson • AKJ BOOKS $7.22 1 $7.22
Pompeii ... Buried Alive!: (Step into Reading Books Series: A Step 4 Book) Edith Kunhardt Davis • AKJ BOOKS $3.60 1 $3.60
The Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt Elizabeth Payne • AKJ BOOKS $5.40 1 $5.40
Mummies and Pyramids: A Nonfiction Companion to Mummies in the Morning (Magic Tree House Research Guide Series) Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca, Will Osborne (Illustrator) • AKJ BOOKS $4.50 1 $4.50
Children of the Great Depression Russell Freedman • AKJ BOOKS $11.65 1 $11.65
Who Was King Tut? Roberta Edwards, True Kelley (Illustrator) • AKJ BOOKS $4.26 1 $4.26
The Story of Harriet Tubman: Conductor of the Underground Railroad Kate McMullan, Steven James Petruccio (Illustrator) • AKJ BOOKS $5.22 1 $5.22
If You Traveled On The Underground Railroad Ellen Levine, Larry Johnson (Illustrator) • AKJ BOOKS $6.30 1 $6.30
City: A Story of Roman Planning and Construction David Macaulay, David Macaulay (Illustrator) • AKJ BOOKS $7.51 1 $7.51
Leonardo da Vinci: A Nonfiction Companion to Monday with a Mad Genius (Magic Tree House Research Guide Series) Natalie Pope Boyce, Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illustrator) • AKJ BOOKS $4.50 1 $4.50
Statue of Liberty: (Step into Reading Books Series: A Step 2 Book) Lucille Rech Penner • AKJ BOOKS $3.60 1 $3.60
Gandhi (DK Biography Series) Primo Levi, Amy Pastan • AKJ BOOKS $5.40 1 $5.40
New York for Kids: 25 Big Apple Sites to Color Patricia J. Wynne • AKJ BOOKS $3.37 1 $3.37
14 Cows for America Carmen Agra Deedy, Thomas Gonz lez (Illustrator), Wilson Kimeli Naiyomah (Afterword) • AKJ BOOKS $12.35 1 $12.35
If You Lived with the Iroquois Levine, Shelly Hehenberger (Illustrator) • AKJ BOOKS $6.30 1 $6.30
The Discovery of America (Geronimo Stilton Graphic Novel Series #1) Geronimo Stilton, Maurizio Onnis, Lorenzo de Pretto (Illustrator) • AKJ BOOKS $9.01 1 $9.01
The Little Prince Graphic Novel Adapted by Joann Sfar, Sarah Ardizzone (Translator), Based On Work by Antoine de Saint-Exupery • AKJ BOOKS $15.55 1 $15.55
The Secret of the Sphinx (Geronimo Stilton Graphic Novel Series #2) Geronimo Stilton, Gianluigi Fungo • AKJ BOOKS $9.01 1 $9.01
Following the Trail of Marco Polo (Geronimo Stilton Graphic Novels Series #4) Geronimo Stilton • AKJ BOOKS $9.01 1 $9.01
The Great Ice Age Geronimo Stilton Graphic Novel Series #5) Geronimo Stilton • AKJ BOOKS $9.01 1 $9.01

Materials cost

$291.48

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.37

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$330.85

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$58.39

Total project goal

$389.24

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $389.24

5 Donors

-$389.24

Donations toward project cost

-$330.85

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$58.39

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