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Mrs. Demmert from Sitka AK is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

The Power of the Panel: Teaching the Holocaust

Help me give my students the books they need to help them develop an understanding of what happened during the Holocaust.

  • $1,270 goal

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My Students

My students are a diverse group of kids living in rural Alaska. Most of them have known each other since preschool and will be friends for life. They have grown up fishing, hunting, hiking, and camping in pristine wilderness.

Though we are a Title I school where many students live in poverty, their kindness and generosity toward each other always astounds me.

We live on an island. This means that most of my students have spent their lives traveling by ferry or plane to visit family or to participate in sports, music, debate, and other activities in other towns around Southeast Alaska.

They may be savvy travelers and able to survive longer than most in the wilderness, but they lack educational opportunities that others take for granted because of our isolation.

My Project

With these books, my students will be participating in Classroom Literature Circles. Small groups will read the same graphic novel together and discuss its implications and meaning for our classroom, our community, and our world.

Regardless of a student’s reading skills or proficiency in the dominant classroom language, he or she can understand a graphic novel immediately!

The images in graphic novels convey a richness and depth that require interpretation and high-level critical thinking, analysis, and evaluation skills. The graphic novels will serve as an introduction into a deeper study of the Holocaust and can be used by students as the impetus for their research project on this unit of study.

Mrs. Demmert
Grades 6-8

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
We Spoke Out: Comic Books and the Holocaust • Amazon Business $33.99 6 $203.94
Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation (Pantheon Graphic Library) • Amazon Business $17.97 6 $107.82
The Complete Maus • Amazon Business $18.89 5 $94.45
We Are On Our Own: A Memoir • Amazon Business $14.85 6 $89.10
Hidden: A Child's Story of the Holocaust • Amazon Business $14.34 6 $86.04
Survivors of the Holocaust: True Stories of Six Extraordinary Children • Amazon Business $13.49 6 $80.94
They Called Us Enemy • Amazon Business $15.59 5 $77.95
Seeking Refuge • Amazon Business $14.24 5 $71.20
A Family Secret • Amazon Business $11.04 5 $55.20
The Search • Amazon Business $10.94 5 $54.70
Lily Renée, Escape Artist: From Holocaust Survivor to Comic Book Pioneer • Amazon Business $9.99 5 $49.95
Resistance: Book 1 • Amazon Business $14.17 1 $14.17
Defiance: Resistance Book 2 • Amazon Business $12.95 1 $12.95
Victory: Resistance Book 3 • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99

Materials cost

$1,010.40

Vendor shipping charges

$7.98

Sales tax

$15.16

3rd party payment processing fee

$15.16

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,078.70

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$190.36

Total project goal

$1,269.06

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$1,269.06

10 Donors

-$782.32

Donations toward project cost

-$668.72

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$113.60

match offer

-$482.33

Match offer toward project cost

-$409.98

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$72.35

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$4.41

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$0.00

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