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Ms. Shire from Aiea, HI is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Teaching Holocaust Literature To Middle School Students

My students need a variety of supplemental materials to support a unit on the Holocaust.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Shire's classroom raised $174

This project is fully funded

My Students

Despite living in today's modern world my students are often woefully unaware of the history of our world. Through the course of the year it is my goal to help expand their worldview in hopes that they may be able to learn from the world around them and grow up to make good choices.

I teach at a Title I public school in Hawaii.

I have taught 7th and 8th grade English over the last two years and this year I am teaching English to an ELL (English Language Learner) population which means my students come from all over the world, but mainly Asia and the Pacific Islands. Due to the variety of backgrounds among my students the challenge of teaching them about the world is much greater and I must look for topics that will interest and inspire them as well as teach them something.

My Project

Every year I do a unit on Holocaust Literature with my students, usually "The Diary of Anne Frank" or "Night." In the past my students have been extremely interested in these units because they are able to learn the stories of people their age who experienced the Holocaust. They also manage to learn some history along the way Often they want to learn even more. Just today one of my student's from last year told me on a family vacation to DC he chose for them to visit the Holocaust museum and he said it was "cool, because he already knew it all since I taught it to him (surely an exaggeration, but flattering). I am requesting a variety of literature and supplemental resources for my teaching unit on the Holocaust so that my students not lucky enough to travel can learn more about the events and people involved.

I believe it is important that we teach our children about world events such as the Holocaust so that they learn to not only have empathy for their fellow human beings but so that their generation will not make the mistakes of generations past.

Ms. Shire Aiea Intermediate School Grades 6-8

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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

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Maus: A Survivor's Tale - 2 Volume Boxed Set Art Spiegelman • Barnes and Noble $20.44 1 $20.44
...I Never Saw Another Butterfly...: Children's Drawings and Poems from Terezin Concentration Camp 1942-1944 Hana Volavkova (Editor), Vaclav Havel (Afterword), Foreword by Chaim Potok • Barnes and Noble $12.65 1 $12.65
I Am a Star: Child of the Holocaust Inge Auerbacher, Israel Bernbaum (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $5.12 1 $5.12
All But My Life Gerda Weissmann Klein • Barnes and Noble $10.26 1 $10.26
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas John Boyne • Barnes and Noble $7.68 1 $7.68
The Diary of Anne Frank (Kesselman) Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, Adapted by Wendy Kesselman, Based On Work by Anne Frank • Barnes and Noble $6.41 1 $6.41
Anne Frank and the Children of the Holocaust Carol Ann Lee • Barnes and Noble $6.83 1 $6.83
Anne Frank - Classroom Edition Robert Dornhelm, Ben Kingsley, Jeff Caster, Hannah Taylor-Gordon • Barnes and Noble $24.21 1 $24.21
Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Wartime Sarajevo Zlata Filipovic, Christina Pribichevich-Zoric (Translator), Janine Di Giovanni (Introduction) • Barnes and Noble $12.43 1 $12.43

Materials cost

$106.03

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $4.67

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.59

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$147.29

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$25.99

Total project goal

$173.28

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $173.28

3 Donors

-$173.28

Donations toward project cost

-$147.29

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$25.99

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