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Ms. Gates from Goldsboro NC is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Teaching Tolerance to Create Culture Change

My students need novels to read that teach tolerance, diversity, and perspective to rise above intolerance, gangs, and crime.

  • $850 goal

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My Students

All of my students have different backgrounds. Our school and my classroom are very diverse. Some kids have everything they could ever want, but some of my students can't even bring in the simplest of school supplies because they cannot afford them. Some of our students are still recovering from losses from Hurricane Matthew last year. I have heard stories of sleeping on couches and moving place to place because they do not have homes anymore.

We live in a very rural community, but we also have an extremely high crime rate.

We are averaging at least one murder a week, and most of them are young people. Our gang and drug influence are very high in our school, which only adds to the stress of being a person living in America during these times of divide. I hear many students talking about the divide among race, class, and gender every day and although I preach tolerance and perspective, I need to try a different approach to actually be heard.

My Project

Both of these novels will be used in a unit to provide lessons on tolerance. I plan to ask the students to first read two dystopian novels, 1984 by George Orwell and the Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. Both of these novels warn against the societal dangers of their respective time, and some of the predictions in both novels have seen some truth. Once we read those novels, I hope to have the students read Persepolis and Those Who Save Us.

I chose these two novels because both give a different perspective of a well-known subject than what we usually are taught.

In Persepolis, the main character is a young girl living in Iran during the triumph of the Islamic Revolution. She is a self-proclaimed "modern girl" from a very modern family who revolts against the revolution and faces many losses. I think this novel is important to teach students about the Islamic Revolution, especially in a country dealing with many accounts of Islamophobia. This will help to teach tolerance to students who may look different or practice a different religion.

I also chose this novel because it is a real world example of someone's imperfect society coming to life. It shows the students that dystopias can become reality, just like it did during the Holocaust for the Jews and the others that were persecuted by the Nazis. I chose Those Who Save Us, a novel depicting the life of a German woman trying to survive during the Nazi term of power because for many the Holocaust was a type of dystopia. They were hunted and killed for just being who they were. This novel is from the perspective of a German woman, someone we would generally think would be protected during Nazi rule.

Ms. Gates
Grades 9-12

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Complete Persepolis • Amazon Business $13.69 29 $397.01
Those Who Save Us • Amazon Business $8.15 29 $236.35

Materials cost

$633.36

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $49.40

3rd party payment processing fee

$9.50

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$722.26

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$127.46

Total project goal

$849.72

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $849.72

7 Donors

-$413.83

Donations toward project cost

-$370.51

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$43.32

Matching donations from our partners

-$413.82

Match offers toward project cost

-$351.75

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$62.07

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$22.06

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 $0.00

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