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Mrs. Gaw from Spartanburg, SC is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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YOU Can Change The World!

Help me give my students graphic novels on social justice issues to help them become informed young adults.

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Gaw's classroom raised $599

This project is fully funded

My Students

We are a K-12 residential school for students with sensory impairments. All of our students are sensory impaired and many of them have an additional disability. We have students living on and off-campus. Our residential students come from all across our state and live on our campus Sunday through Friday. Our school is considered a high poverty school.

Our students need access to specialized materials including braille, large print, and graphic novels.

My Project

I am requesting a collection of age-appropriate graphic novels on social justice topics for our hearing impaired students. Due to sensory impairments, many of our students lack background information on a variety of topics, including bias, diversity, and social justice.

Since our hearing impaired students' first language is American Sign Language, they struggle with English and need graphic novels to help them construct meaning from text.

We want our students to understand and accept people from diverse ethnic and religious backgrounds. Having access and reading materials on social justice issues will help them become more informed young adults.

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Ballad of an American: A Graphic Biography of Paul Robeson • Amazon Business $49.95 1 $49.95
Hiroshima: The Autobiography of Barefoot Gen (Asian Voices) • Amazon Business $29.00 1 $29.00
Saints (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) (Boxers & Saints) • Amazon Business $28.15 1 $28.15
Boxers (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) (Boxers & Saints) • Amazon Business $25.60 1 $25.60
Abina and the Important Men: A Graphic History (Graphic History Series) • Amazon Business $23.70 1 $23.70
Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation • Amazon Business $21.49 1 $21.49
Dragon Hoops • Amazon Business $19.99 1 $19.99
Blankets • Amazon Business $18.63 1 $18.63
Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio • Amazon Business $18.26 1 $18.26
As the World Burns: 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Stay in Denial#A Graphic Novel • Amazon Business $17.95 1 $17.95
Dangerous Woman: The Graphic Biography of Emma Goldman • Amazon Business $17.95 1 $17.95
Displacement • Amazon Business $17.87 1 $17.87
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood • Amazon Business $16.39 1 $16.39
Escape to Gold Mountain: A Graphic History of the Chinese in North America • Amazon Business $15.95 1 $15.95
Studs Terkel's Working: A Graphic Adaptation • Amazon Business $15.61 1 $15.61
The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative of a Slave's Journey from Bondage to Freedom • Amazon Business $14.69 1 $14.69
Chicken with Plums (Pantheon Graphic Library) • Amazon Business $13.95 1 $13.95
The Real Cost of Prisons Comix (PM Press) • Amazon Business $13.45 1 $13.45
Boondocks: Because I Know You Don't Read The Newspaper • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
I Am Alfonso Jones • Amazon Business $12.59 1 $12.59
Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Pantheon Graphic Library) • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
The Silence of Our Friends • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
The Breadwinner • Amazon Business $8.87 1 $8.87

Materials cost

$434.01

Vendor shipping charges

$7.98

Sales tax

$30.60

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.51

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$509.10

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$89.84

Total project goal

$598.94

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$598.94

21 Donors

-$573.59

Donations toward project cost

-$487.85

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$85.74

match offer

-$25.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$21.25

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$3.75

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$0.35

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

$0.00

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