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Ms. V. from Miami, FL is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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A Picture Says A Thousand Words About U.S. History

My students need image-rich books that deal with class content. I have chosen award winning books with powerful images. We also need a document camera in order to engage with the books as a class.

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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.

My Students

My school is small by public school standards; it is just under 1,000 students in a building that can accommodate up to 2,400. My U.S. History students make up almost the entirety of the junior class. I have cheerleaders; football, basketball, and volleyball players; theater, band, and art students; JROTC and honors society students. Some are shy, some are loud, some are bossy, some are sly, some are goofy, some will tell it like it is, and some will spare your feelings.

My students are diverse, but they all have one thing in common: they come from minority, low-income, hard-working families and live in some of the poorest areas of our cosmopolitan city.

Prior to desegregation, our school served as the only African American public high school for miles and miles. To this day, the student population continues to be about 55% African American, but the demographics of the area have changed. The school now serves a large Latino community, made up mostly of students fleeing the hostile regimes in Central America. Many have come as unaccompanied minors and have never had formal schooling.

91% of my students are reading below grade level. 53% are English Language Learners.

My Project

Good children's books sum up their messages emphatically and succinctly through carefully selected text and powerful images. We all have had the experience of being moved by a children's book we have read or have read to others. They often stick with us. Although my students are juniors in high school, I expect that they will have similar experiences when they are exposed to the children's books I have selected that touch on key historical content.

My lessons depend heavily on rich images that engage my students, relay content, and invoke class discussion.

In class, we will use these books for several purposes:

- We will use and discuss images in the books to relay particular content using the document camera.

- We will also engage in a guided reading of the book as the introductory portion to a lesson using the document camera.

- Students will buddy read the books and pair the books with authentic primary sources to answer text-dependent questions.

- Further along in the year, for content for which we do not have a book, students will create their own children's books for that content. These books will be used in subsequent years for U.S. History classes at our school.

- Aside from use with the requested books, the document camera will also be used with other books in our class library, for modeling active reading and text annotations using an iPad, and for modeling processes for using technology, among other uses.

Ms. V. Booker T Washington Senior High School Grades 9-12

Equity Focus

At this school, more than 50% of students are Black, Latino, and/or Native American, and more than 50% come from low-income households. Learn how your donation to this school supports a more equitable education.

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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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Ipevo iZiggi-HD Wireless Document Camera for iPad, PC and Mac (CDVW-01IP) • Amazon Business $159.00 1 $159.00
The 1920s Decade in Photos: The Roaring Twenties (Amazing Decades in Photos) • Amazon Business $27.93 1 $27.93
The 1930s Decade in Photos: Depression and Hope (Amazing Decades in Photos) • Amazon Business $27.93 1 $27.93
The 1910s Decade in Photos: A Decade That Shook the World (Amazing Decades in Photos) • Amazon Business $27.93 1 $27.93
The 1940s Decade in Photos: A World at War (Amazing Decades in Photos) • Amazon Business $27.93 1 $27.93
The 1950s Decade in Photos: "The American Decade" (Amazing Decades in Photos) • Amazon Business $27.93 1 $27.93
The 1900s Decade in Photos: A Decade of Discovery (Amazing Decades in Photos) • Amazon Business $27.93 1 $27.93
The Great Migration: An American Story • Amazon Business $19.60 1 $19.60
Coolies (Asian Pacific American Award for Literature. Children's and Young Adult. Honorable Mention (Awards)) • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
When Harriet Met Sojourner • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
Barbed Wire Baseball: How One Man Brought Hope to the Japanese Internment Camps of WWII • Amazon Business $16.41 1 $16.41
Landed • Amazon Business $15.75 1 $15.75
28 Days: Moments in Black History that Changed the World • Amazon Business $15.26 1 $15.26
Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down (Jane Addams Honor Book (Awards)) • Amazon Business $15.17 1 $15.17
Harlem Renaissance Party • Amazon Business $14.20 1 $14.20
Friends for Freedom: The Story of Susan B. Anthony & Frederick Douglass • Amazon Business $14.03 1 $14.03
Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation (Jane Addams Award Book (Awards)) • Amazon Business $13.68 1 $13.68
The Inventor's Secret: What Thomas Edison Told Henry Ford • Amazon Business $12.89 1 $12.89
Locomotive (Caldecott Medal Book) • Amazon Business $12.57 1 $12.57
I, Too, Am America • Amazon Business $11.04 1 $11.04
Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99

Materials cost

$528.15

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.92

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$566.07

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$99.89

Total project goal

$665.96

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $665.96

2 Donors

-$615.96

Donations toward project cost

-$523.57

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$92.39

match offer

-$50.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$42.50

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$7.50

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 $0.00

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