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Ms. Gooden from Lynwood CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Young Historians Need to Read!

Help me give my students culturally relevant, engaging and informative books for our history classroom library.

  • $881 goal

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Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

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.

Celebrate Black Teachers and Students

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

I teach in a Middle School in Lynwood, California. My students are in the 8th grade. I love my job as an 8th grade U.S. History teacher. As a history teacher, my goal is to expose my students to the experience and events that have shaped our country. The courageous men and women that we learn about really excite the students and encourage their curiosity for learning. Knowing how our government is organized and the importance of the constitution helps my students to feel empowered about their rights and role as a citizen in our society.

A rich and relevant classroom library with multiple types of reading resources will help my students develop their knowledge of American History.

Many of my students are avid readers and would like the opportunity to develop skills inside and outside my classroom by checking out novels, picture books, children´s books biographies, and autobiographies that feature historic content.

My Project

As a history teacher, one of the most amazing ways that I help my students learn about the past is through the use of primary and secondary sources. When students touch and feel items and look at historic pictures, history comes alive for them.

By exploring primary and secondary sources beyond the textbook, my students engage with historical information on a deeper and more personal level.

When students explore picture books and novels they view history from a different lens and perspective. By providing a library rich in various cultural and historical sources, my students are developing their literacy skills as well as historical context and knowledge.

Ms. Gooden
Grades 6-8

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
An African American and Latinx History of the United States (ReVisioning American History) • Amazon Business $10.69 4 $42.76
A Disability History of the United States (ReVisioning American History) • Amazon Business $12.34 3 $37.02
Alexander Hamilton: The Graphic History of an American Founding Father • Amazon Business $12.19 3 $36.57
Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists: A Graphic History of Women's Fight for Their Rights • Amazon Business $17.99 2 $35.98
The Undefeated • Amazon Business $8.99 4 $35.96
They Called Us Enemy • Amazon Business $11.59 3 $34.77
Mexican American War 1846 - 1848 - Causes, Surrender and Treaties | Timelines of History for Kids | 6th Grade Social Studies • Amazon Business $10.53 3 $31.59
A Young People's History of the United States: Columbus to the War on Terror (For Young People Series) • Amazon Business $13.69 2 $27.38
The Dead March: A History of the Mexican-American War • Amazon Business $27.34 1 $27.34
Taking Liberty: The Story of Oney Judge, George Washington's Runaway Slave • Amazon Business $7.99 3 $23.97
Atlas of Indian Nations • Amazon Business $21.49 1 $21.49
Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
At the Mountain's Base • Amazon Business $17.42 1 $17.42
Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story • Amazon Business $17.09 1 $17.09
Encounter • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
The Proudest Blue: A Story of Hijab and Family • Amazon Business $16.19 1 $16.19
Where Are You From? • Amazon Business $15.79 1 $15.79
Spirits of the Earth: A Guide to Native American Nature Symbols, Stories, and Ceremonies • Amazon Business $14.60 1 $14.60
Under My Hijab • Amazon Business $13.92 1 $13.92
Becoming RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Journey to Justice • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
Light in the Darkness: A Story about How Slaves Learned in Secret • Amazon Business $12.84 1 $12.84
The Gettysburg Address: A Graphic Adaptation • Amazon Business $12.56 1 $12.56
Dreamers • Amazon Business $12.29 1 $12.29
Lillian's Right to Vote: A Celebration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 • Amazon Business $12.16 1 $12.16
Let the Children March • Amazon Business $10.78 1 $10.78
The Split History of Westward Expansion in the United States: A Perspectives Flip Book (Perspectives Flip Books) • Amazon Business $8.95 1 $8.95
DK Eyewitness Books: Civil War: Witness the War That Turned a Nation Against Itself from the Brutal Battles to its Legendary Commanders • Amazon Business $8.95 1 $8.95
Jefferson's Sons: A Founding Father’s Secret Children • Amazon Business $8.12 1 $8.12
499 Facts about Hip-Hop Hamilton and the Rest of America's Founding Fathers: 499 Facts About Hop-Hop Hamilton and America's First Leaders • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Guts & Glory: The American Revolution (Guts & Glory (4)) • Amazon Business $7.59 1 $7.59
The Split History of the American Revolution: A Perspectives Flip Book (Perspectives Flip Books) • Amazon Business $7.58 1 $7.58
Young Abe Lincoln: The Frontier Days: 1809-1837 • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
The Silence of Our Friends • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Texting with Harriet Tubman: An Underground Railroad Black History Biography Book for Kids (Texting with History) • Amazon Business $6.95 1 $6.95
DK Biography Abraham Lincoln: A Photographic Story of a Life • Amazon Business $6.52 1 $6.52
George vs. George: The American Revolution As Seen from Both Sides • Amazon Business $5.39 1 $5.39
What Was the Underground Railroad? • Amazon Business $4.00 1 $4.00

Materials cost

$644.46

Vendor shipping charges

 $5.75

Sales tax

 $58.97

3rd party payment processing fee

$9.67

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$748.85

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$132.15

Total project goal

$881.00

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $881.00

7 Donors

-$423.68

Donations toward project cost

-$382.43

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$41.25

match offer

-$431.08

Match offer toward project cost

-$366.42

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$64.66

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$26.24

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