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Mr. O'Herlihy from San Leandro, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Super Great Anti-Depressing Books On The Great Depression

My students need new class sets of literacy library books, including 17 copies each of "You Can't Win" and "Beggars of Life."

FULLY FUNDED! Mr. O'Herlihy's classroom raised $944

This project is fully funded

My Students

I teach in a therapeutic environment with at risk students who have not been a part of the school system in quite a while. The age range is from middle school to college track students. They are not accustomed to reading books and working on literacy so we have to be creative in our classroom!

We are in the Bay Area of Northern California and our students are wrestling with issues of stability, success in school, family advocates, and legal issues.

There is nothing more exciting for us than to see our students light up reading a book they are actually enjoying while also learning about cultures and peoples they are unfamiliar with. My students age and maturity make it difficult for them to tell you who they are but, the more they learn about others the more they are able to tell you who they are NOT. We have been focused on empathy and understanding of who other people are and what their lives were like and my students have really been responding to the depression era in our classroom. This new group of class sets of books will give us the material we need to fully explore this time in a florid and fulfilling way.

My Project

These books are exciting, well written and timely explorations of the early twentieth century and the Great Depression in particular. My students have some difficulty finding a way in to appreciate peoples and places different from what they know personally. These books are great examples of exciting materials that will engage the students in our literacy program and they are truly hungry for this material. The success we have found in our initial attempts to teach this time and place have been quite rewarding for both the students and ourselves seeing their enthusiasm for new material that they can relate to and enjoy consuming the curriculum wholeheartedly! Each one of these books targets students at different levels of academic ability and gives the opportunity to develop related materials and classroom activities that benefit from and supplement this teaching arc for the early twentieth century in the United States. We can't wait to get started on this and our students can't either.

This literacy project will help us to complete a classroom library and our reading class to have full class sets of these books that our students have literally used up the original single copies of these books.

These full sets will enable us to guarantee a longer life for these books, so many many more students will get the benefit from these great tools that we are ready to use and the kids are ready to read voraciously!

Mr. O'Herlihy Butler Academic Center Grades 9-12

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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More than half 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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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Beggars of Life (Black Squirrel Books) • Amazon $15.15 17 $257.55
You Can't Win • Amazon $12.54 17 $213.18
Sister of The Road: The Autobiography of Boxcar Bertha - as told to Dr. Ben Reitman (NABAT) • Amazon $8.38 17 $142.46
Riding the Rails: Teenagers on the Move During the Great Depression • Amazon $30.95 1 $30.95
On Hobos and Homelessness (Heritage of Sociology Series) • Amazon $25.34 1 $25.34
Beggars of Life: A Hobo Autobiography • Amazon $21.96 1 $21.96
The Hobo Handbook: A Field Guide to Living by Your Own Rules • Amazon $5.98 1 $5.98

Materials cost

$697.42

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $63.81

3rd party payment processing fee

$10.46

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$801.69

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$141.47

Total project goal

$943.16

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $943.16

1 Donor

-$943.16

Donations toward project cost

-$801.69

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$141.47

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