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Ms. Kight Witham from Los Angeles, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Books to Bring Us Together

Help me give my students some great new titles for the long-awaited return to in-person learning. These books will whisk them into stories of missing homelands, magical powers, and young people grappling with mental health.

  • $555 goal

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My Students

My students attend a large diverse public high school in a big city. We are part of a STEMM (Science Technology Engineering Math Medicine) magnet. English Language Arts is a place where students can explore how the arts intersect with all that science. In our classrooms, they have the opportunity to be surrounded by many different people with unique stories.

My students are intelligent, inquisitive, and enthusiastic about their studies.

They get excited when we use project-based learning to deepen connections between literature, current events, history, and STEMM-related issues. They care deeply about the future they are charged with shaping, and I am continually impressed with how eager they are to learn about ways to improve our world.

My Project

As we all find our way back to each other after a very long year and a half of mostly distance learning, my students will return to an abundant classroom library full of compelling new reads. These books are going to launch our year together as readers, writers, thinkers, and humans still grappling with the trauma of an ongoing pandemic.

Literature circles will help us reconnect through the stories of others, and these books offer so many moving, funny, insightful tales to ignite students' imaginations and deepen their sense of compassion.

In November we'll be writing novels for National Novel Writing Month, and these books will offer mentor texts to help students begin building their own worlds.

Ms. Kight Witham Venice 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 three‑quarters 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

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Everything Sad Is Untrue: (a true story) • Amazon Business $15.99 4 $63.96
Banned Book Club • Amazon Business $11.95 4 $47.80
Almost American Girl: An Illustrated Memoir • Amazon Business $11.69 4 $46.76
Playlist for the Dead • Amazon Business $10.99 4 $43.96
Song Below Water • Amazon Business $8.99 4 $35.96
Elatsoe • Amazon Business $16.99 2 $33.98
We Are Not Free • Amazon Business $16.19 2 $32.38
Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words • Amazon Business $15.49 2 $30.98
All the Bright Places • Amazon Business $7.48 4 $29.92
Even as We Breathe • Amazon Business $24.95 1 $24.95
The Talk: Conversations about Race, Love & Truth • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99

Materials cost

$398.64

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $36.48

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.98

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$471.10

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$83.14

Total project goal

$554.24

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $554.24

2 Donors

-$277.12

Donations toward project cost

-$235.55

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$41.57

match offer

-$277.12

Match offer toward project cost

-$235.55

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$41.57

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 $0.00

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