You're on track to get doubled donations (and unlock a reward for the colleague who referred you). Keep up the great work!
Take credit for your charitable giving! Check out your tax receipts
Donate
To use your $50 gift card credits, find a project to fund and we'll automatically apply your credits at checkout. Find a classroom project
Menu
Skip to main content

Help teachers & students in your hometown this season!
Use code HOME at checkout and your donation will be matched up to $100.

Your school email address was successfully verified.

See this teacher's page

This teacher needs your help!

Ms. Sorgenfrei from Tacoma, WA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

See what Ms. Sorgenfrei is requesting

Texts That Rep Are Lit!

Help me give my students access to these beautiful texts that represent our learners and greater community in wonderful ways!

  • $446 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

We have hardworking, engaged, rock star learners! They each uniquely contribute to our classroom and school community in such positive ways. Our students come from diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds, a majority are considered low-income, as well as a high percentage of English Language Learners.

Our students are high energy readers, writers, scientists, mathematicians, and crazy awesome leaders and innovators!

Our school and district culture places a large emphasis on teaching to the whole child, meeting students' needs in all ways, so that they can be socially, emotionally and academically prepared for anything they can dream of for the future lives, including college and vocational opportunities.

I work with all students in the building as a collaborative teacher. I am honored to rotate co-teaching in classrooms with amazing educators and get to know all learners in our building from Kindergarten through 5th Grade classrooms.

My Project

These mentor texts will be used in classrooms across the building, integrating into core content areas such as social emotional learning, writing, reading, social studies and more! Our students deserve books that represent them in many beautiful ways. Stories that have children that look like them, legends that have achieved greatness that represent them, accounts of history that represent diverse stakeholders and perspectives, current day stories that inspire, instill hope, persistence, and make them laugh, representation across diverse occupations. Stories with people our students, staff and community can relate to and with. Representation matters. Thank you for being a part of this important work and building goal to create libraries that will support intentional instruction, exploration, learning and growth!

Ms. Sorgenfrei
Grades 3-5

Boost your odds

Add a profile photo in addition to your classroom photo. If you add a photo, it'll show up right here on your project page.

You are more likely to receive funding if you put a face to your name.

Upload a photo

Top rated for efficiency and transparency.

You donate directly to the teacher or project you care about and see where every dollar you give goes.

Expand the "Where your donation goes" section below to see exactly what Ms. Sorgenfrei is requesting.

See our finances

TEACHERS, FEELING INSPIRED?

You can start a project with the same resources being requested here!

Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Before John Was a Jazz Giant: A Song of John Coltrane • Amazon Business $15.79 9 $142.11
Dear Primo: A Letter to My Cousin • Amazon Business $10.99 10 $109.90
Legacy: Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance • Amazon Business $17.77 1 $17.77
Grace Hopper: Queen of Computer Code (Volume 1) (People Who Shaped Our World) • Amazon Business $15.51 1 $15.51
Mario and the Hole in the Sky: How a Chemist Saved Our Planet • Amazon Business $11.89 1 $11.89
The Tree Lady: The True Story of How One Tree-Loving Woman Changed a City Forever • Amazon Business $10.35 1 $10.35
One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99

Materials cost

$316.52

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $27.70

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.75

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$378.97

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$66.88

Total project goal

$445.85

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $445.85

1 Donor

-$297.23

Donations toward project cost

-$252.65

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$44.58

match offer

-$148.61

Match offer toward project cost

-$126.32

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$22.29

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$0.01

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

Our team works hard to negotiate the best pricing and selections available.

View complete list Show less

Give the most requested basic supplies

See teacher requests

Give back to your community

Find opportunities to impact local needs by exploring a map of classroom projects near you.

See local area

Project Activity

Project Activity
Back to top

DonorsChoose is the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

As a teacher-founded nonprofit, we're trusted by thousands of teachers and supporters across the country. This classroom request for funding was created by Ms. Sorgenfrei and reviewed by the DonorsChoose team.

See how DonorsChoose works
{"pmaHash":"","showProjectRecommendations":true,"leadGenEnabled":true,"hideTeacherDetails":false,"schoolState":"WA","teacherPossessivePronoun":"her","PMsManager":null,"schoolGradeType":{"id":2,"name":"Elementary School"},"TeacherPMForms":{},"completingDonationAmount":0,"teacherHasClassroomPhoto":true,"proposalURL":"https://www.donorschoose.org/project/texts-that-rep-are-lit/5504295/","mayHaveReplacements":false,"numStudents":250,"teacherScreenName":"Ms. Sorgenfrei","isEquityFocus":true,"proposalHash":"-853345664","isApplePayMobileOnly":true,"progressBarPercentage":100.00,"photosPublished":false,"queryString":"","DonorPMForm":null,"schoolCity":"Tacoma","teachersOnPage":[4590784],"isTeacherViewingTheirOwnProject":false,"minimizedLeadGenEnabled":false,"proposalId":5504295,"proposalMessageFormModel":null,"numActiveProjects":4,"verifyShowPhotos":"","eligibleToBeCopied":false,"authorIds":{"4590784":{"owner":"Ms. Sorgenfrei","donationSalutations":{}}},"displayedPercentFunded":1.0,"proposalsOnPage":[5504295],"pmaId":"","teacherProfilePhotoURL":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp4590784_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=136&height=136&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1689025860695","teacherHasProfilePhoto":true,"currentWorkflowStatusCode":21,"teacherChallengeId":20973618,"isApplePayEnabled":true,"fundedByTarget":false,"activeProject":{"completingDonationAmount":496,"proposalURL":"project/clipboard-organization/8604956/","proposalTitle":"Clipboard Organization","proposalId":8604956},"donorIdsForImpactPhotoCheck":[],"teacherId":4590784,"schoolCounty":"Pierce","fullyFunded":true,"isStudentLed":false,"isExpired":true,"schoolStateObj":{"code":"WA","name":"Washington"}}
Supporting teachers and students since 2000

DonorsChoose makes it easy for anyone to help a classroom in need. Public school teachers from every corner of America create classroom project requests, and you can give any amount to the project that inspires you.

We've earned the highest possible ratings from Better Business Bureau, Charity Watch, Charity Navigator, and Guidestar.