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Ms. McDonald from Houston, TX is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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A Series of Unfortunate Events, Fortunately

My students need a classroom set of A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket to learn how to read and discuss a novel.

  • $315 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.

My Students

My students are eager to transition from learning to read to reading to learn, and this project will help them with this transition.

Our school's students are caring, kind, and curious.

For some, their families and teachers attended previously! We strive to provide a safe community for those students whose families move a little more often, and to provide kindness and understanding, in addition to education, while they are with us.

My Project

This classroom set of books will be used to introduce the fourth graders to novels. Through Read Aloud and small group, students will learn about author's voice, context clues, reading comprehension, predicting outcomes, in addition to learning how to discuss novels with each other. After we've read this as a class, students will begin to work in literature circles in which they choose what books to read and discuss with their classmates using the techniques they learn in our whole group novel study.

The wish of every reading teacher is that students learn to love to read.

"A Series of Unfortunate Events" engages students with its unique tone of voice and clever take on the ineptitude of adults, reaching the most stubbornly reluctant reader. Modeling a love of reading a novel for students and providing them the tools to choose their own books to read and relate to will help ignite that love of reading for the students who don't yet have it, and add fuel to the fire for those that do!

Ms. McDonald Northline Elementary School Grades 3-5

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.

More about Ms. McDonald

Houston, TX View local requests

Nearly all 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

30 students impacted 6donors

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Bad Beginning: Or, Orphans! (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 1) • Amazon $6.99 30 $209.70
The Beatrice Letters (A Series of Unfortunate Events) • Amazon $17.53 1 $17.53
Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography (A Series of Unfortunate Events) • Amazon $6.99 1 $6.99

Materials cost

$234.22

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.51

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$267.73

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$47.25

Total project goal

$314.98

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $314.98

4 Donors

-$264.98

Donations toward project cost

-$225.23

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$39.75

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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