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Mrs. Senna from Middletown, CT is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Boosting Biographies!

Please help me give my students more biographies in our library collection to read and learn about.

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My Students

My students are excited learners who love to read and try new technology in our Library Media Center. I have the pleasure of seeing every classroom of students K-5 twice a week. I love seeing my 5th graders enthusiastically stopping me in the hall to tell me they have already finished their book and they want to swap it out. I love the hugs I get when I see my Kinders and their belly laughs when we have a silly read-aloud. I am constantly amazed at the clever ideas they come up with when they build with Keva planks or code on Scratch.

Despite outside circumstances that challenge my students daily, they arrive motivated, optimistic, and excited to learn.

Our school community is an incredibly diverse and welcoming one. I love providing them with engaging literacy and technology experiences to enhance their learning and challenge their thinking! I love what I do and the children I share my days with!

My Project

My students love to read! One of the most popular series circulating at our school is the Who Was series. This is a fantastic collection of easy-to-read biographies for elementary students.

I wanted to expand our biography collection to include more diverse figures representing our population, more famous figures in STEM, and more historical figures that students would benefit from learning about.

I am hoping to add these new titles to our nonfiction biography collection to help meet the demand of this series. Students love them and are always excited to learn about new people!

Mrs. Senna MacDonough 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.

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Middletown, CT View local requests

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
Who Were Stanley and Livingstone? (Who Was?) • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Who Were the Navajo Code Talkers? (Who Was?) • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Who Is Neil deGrasse Tyson? (Who Was?) • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Who Was Duke Ellington? • Amazon Business $5.74 1 $5.74
Who Was Ruth Bader Ginsburg? • Amazon Business $5.68 1 $5.68
Who Was Neil Armstrong? • Amazon Business $5.59 1 $5.59
Who Was Henry Ford? • Amazon Business $5.49 1 $5.49
Who Is Malala Yousafzai? (Who Was?) • Amazon Business $5.44 1 $5.44
Who Was Abraham Lincoln? • AKJ Education $5.39 1 $5.39
Who Was Genghis Khan? • Amazon Business $5.29 1 $5.29
Who Was Harriet Tubman? • Amazon Business $5.29 1 $5.29
Who Is Jane Goodall? (Who Was?) • Amazon Business $5.28 1 $5.28
Who Was Aretha Franklin? • Amazon Business $5.08 1 $5.08
Who Was Cesar Chavez? • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Who Is Chloe Kim? (Who HQ Now) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Who Is Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson? (Who HQ Now) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Who Was Paul Revere? • AKJ Education $4.79 1 $4.79
Who Is Barack Obama? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Isaac Newton? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was King Tut? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was John F. Kennedy? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Harry Houdini? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Eleanor Roosevelt? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Galileo? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Pablo Picasso? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Neil Armstrong? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Louis Braille? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Ben Franklin? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Thomas Alva Edison? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Nelson Mandela? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Sacagawea? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Milton Hershey? • Amazon Business $4.00 1 $4.00
Who Is Oprah Winfrey? (Who Was?) • Amazon Business $4.00 1 $4.00
Who Is Kamala Harris? (Who HQ Now) • Amazon Business $4.00 1 $4.00
Who Was Maya Angelou? • Amazon Business $4.00 1 $4.00
Who Was Nikola Tesla? • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
Who Was Ernest Shackleton? • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
Who Was Gandhi? • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
Who Is Tom Brady? (Who HQ Now) • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
Who Was Jesse Owens? • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
Who Was Levi Strauss? • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
Who Was Booker T. Washington? • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
Who Was Selena? • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
Who Was Ida B. Wells? • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
Who Was Sally Ride? • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99

Materials cost

$213.45

Vendor shipping charges

 $9.99

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.20

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$256.64

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$45.29

Total project goal

$301.93

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $301.93

3 Donors

-$150.96

Donations toward project cost

-$128.32

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$22.64

match offer

-$150.96

Match offer toward project cost

-$128.32

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$22.64

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