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Ms. Damlich from Chicago IL is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Understand the Past. Build the Future!

Help me give my students engaging texts about African American history and activists and events of the Civil Rights Movement. The lessons of tenacity, community, and nonviolent protest are enduringly relevant to our lives.

  • $678 goal

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This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.

My Students

My fifth and sixth-grade students are smart, curious, funny, and enthusiastic learners. At our school, we combine inclusion and resource room environments to serve the needs of our diverse learners. When I design units of study, I gather a variety of amazing books around a theme at different reading levels to accommodate all students. This enables everyone to participate successfully.

My Project

These new books will support an interdisciplinary unit on the theme of nonviolent protest and resistance in African American history. All students will read a text about the life of John Lewis while learning about important historical events to support their understanding of the era. In small groups, students will read companion books about equally important change-makers that we will purchase with these funds. While reading, students will journal and write essays about the texts. There will be a creative culminating project in which students may choose to write and recite poems, create and perform a short play, or make an art project.

I hope these stories inspire my students to continue to learn, flourish, and make our society better for everyone!

Ms. Damlich
Grades 6-8

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
The 1619 Project: Born on the Water • Amazon Business $13.41 10 $134.10
The Story of John Lewis: A Biography Book for Young Readers (The Story of: A Biography Series for New Readers) • Amazon Business $10.99 10 $109.90
Nina: A Story of Nina Simone • Amazon Business $14.77 6 $88.62
Sit-In • AKJ Education $13.86 5 $69.30
Let the Children March • Amazon Business $10.89 6 $65.34
Pies from Nowhere: How Georgia Gilmore Sustained the Montgomery Bus Boycott • Amazon Business $10.78 6 $64.68

Materials cost

$531.94

Vendor shipping charges

 $6.00

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.98

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$575.92

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$101.63

Total project goal

$677.55

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $677.55

3 Donors

-$668.73

Donations toward project cost

-$575.92

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$92.81

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$8.82

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