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Mrs. Schelling from Plantsville CT is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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We Need Diverse Books!

Help me give my students diverse books to help with our historical fiction reading unit and our historical writing unit.

  • $203 goal

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My Students

This is a group of fifth-grade students who are so excited to learn and come to school every day. They are girls and boys with so many unique qualities and interests. They love to read about history, animals, places, and people. Every day they set out to learn new things from their books! They deserve the absolute best every day and are so thankful for all that they receive. These students need the tools to help them excel!

It is incredibly difficult to provide absolutely everything for my students and every donation will make a difference for this wonderful group of boys and girls.

It is my goal to make sure that these students have the best learning experience and materials as possible.

My Project

We will be studying the Civil Rights Movement and Underground Railroad in addition to other famous historical time periods in our next reading unit. It would be great to have some more diverse books for students to learn from.

This is a collection of both historical fiction books, and nonfiction books for students to learn from.

They will be able to learn about the time period, in addition to analyzing the characters and the hardships that they had to go through during these time periods.

These books will help students understand the time periods better and also hopefully will allow them to make some types of connections to the characters as they read their stories.

Mrs. Schelling
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
They Called Us Enemy • Amazon Business $15.59 1 $15.59
Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop: The Sanitation Strike of 1968 • Amazon Business $13.74 1 $13.74
Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down (Jane Addams Honor Book (Awards)) • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
Let the Children March • Amazon Business $10.79 1 $10.79
Child of the Dream (A Memoir of 1963) • Amazon Business $8.49 1 $8.49
Brown Girl Dreaming • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
The Mighty Miss Malone • Amazon Business $7.54 1 $7.54
We March • Amazon Business $7.52 1 $7.52
The Season of Styx Malone • Amazon Business $7.52 1 $7.52
Elijah of Buxton (Scholastic Gold) • Amazon Business $7.39 1 $7.39
Stella by Starlight • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Gone Crazy in Alabama • Amazon Business $6.69 1 $6.69
Stargazing • Amazon Business $6.49 1 $6.49
The Crossover (Graphic Novel) (The Crossover Series) • Amazon Business $6.49 1 $6.49
Clayton Byrd Goes Underground • Amazon Business $6.29 1 $6.29
With the Might of Angels (Dear America) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99

Materials cost

$136.50

Vendor shipping charges

 $3.99

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.05

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$172.54

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$30.45

Total project goal

$202.99

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $202.99

1 Donor

-$101.50

Donations toward project cost

-$86.28

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$15.22

match offer

-$101.48

Match offer toward project cost

-$86.26

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$15.22

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$0.01

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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