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Ms. Overturf from Brooklyn NY is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

The Secret to Online Learning? Take It Offline!

Help me give my students copies of two graphic novels by author and artist Gene Luen Yang!

  • $3,169 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

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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

Our school is a diverse Title I high school located in Brooklyn, New York. It is one of a handful of public high schools in NYC that only admit recent immigrants; many of our students enter the ninth grade just a few weeks, or even days, after first moving to the United States.

Our students come from over thirty countries around the world -- Yemen, Honduras, Nepal, Bangladesh, the Ivory Coast, and Haiti, to name a few.

They also speak well over thirty different languages, all at different levels of English language proficiency. As opposed to more traditional ESL programs, students are not pulled out of their classes. Instead, all of our students learn English through their content courses such as math, science, literature, social studies, dance, and art. Students work collaboratively to help one another with both their language skills and their understanding of life in this new country.

My Project

The secret to online learning? Take it offline! Help my students and I beat screen fatigue by helping us to get copies of graphic novels to read at home and at school.

This project will provide all 75 of my students copies of two amazing graphic novels, Boxers & Saints, by the talented author and artist Gene Luen Yang.

Boxers & Saints are two parallel stories told from two different perspectives.

In the past, students have loved the adventure, the characters, and the experience of reading Boxers & Saints together as a community! Furthermore, with a roster of 75 unique English Language Learners, these graphic novels meet students where they're at and are a great option for creating a differentiated curriculum with learners at different English literacy levels.

Ms. Overturf
Grades 9-12

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Boxers & Saints • Books are Magic $34.99 75 $2,624.25

Materials cost

$2,624.25

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$39.36

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$2,693.61

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$475.34

Total project goal

$3,168.95

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$3,168.95

28 Donors

-$2,701.73

Donations toward project cost

-$2,315.36

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$386.37

match offer

-$445.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$378.25

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$66.75

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$22.22

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$0.00

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Project Activity

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