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

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What Makes a Hero Part 2

Help me give my students 50 copies of "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia. This novel will allow my students to experience words from a diverse author, and from a diverse protagonist.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Allen's classroom raised $614

This project is fully funded

My Students

Our school's motto is that every student matters, and every moment counts. We strive to give every single one of our students a meaningful, engaging, and rigorous education every day. Our students come from diverse backgrounds and have very different life experiences. Every single student strives for excellence, and is empathetic to one another.

The most important thing for a student is to feel represented and included in the classroom narrative.

The best way for them to feel this way is to see themselves in the texts that we are reading in class. Incorporating diverse characters is crucial to providing our students not only with a meaningful education, but allowing them to hear from a variety of populations, and allow them to become global citizens.

My Project

Utilizing these novels will allow our students to engage with a unit about heroism and mythology. We typically read "Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief." However, we so often read novels from the perspective of a white male protagonist, and while this is representative of some of our students, it is not the majority. It is doing the students a disservice to only hear from one perspective and is an equity issue. Students deserve to have representation in their learning, and in the literature that they are reading.

While there is an increased amount of novels that contain diverse characters, they are often historical fiction or focus on the stereotypical circumstances that individuals may face coming from that background.

We believe that it is important that students see themselves in a novel that is not focusing on the negative aspects of life but also portrays these characters as a hero, and as someone who can change the world, as all our students are world changers themselves.

Also, reading this novel incorporates West African mythology and African American folk tales. By reading this novel they will be gaining another perspective or point of view that is not typically discussed. This will allow our students to become more global citizens.

Ms. Allen Dillard Drive Middle School Grades 6-8

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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More than half of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky (Tristan Strong (1)) • Amazon Business $8.99 50 $449.50

Materials cost

$449.50

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $35.06

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.74

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$521.30

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$91.99

Total project goal

$613.29

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $613.29

4 Donors

-$306.63

Donations toward project cost

-$260.64

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$45.99

match offer

-$306.66

Match offer toward project cost

-$260.66

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$46.00

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 $0.00

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