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Ms. Burch from Brooklyn, NY is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Buy BIPOC Bookclub Books!

Help me give my students diverse books for their senior portfolio project as they challenge themselves in English and literary analysis.

  • $671 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

I teach a fantastic group of high school seniors who are inquisitive, persistent, and creative. Hailing from over 45 different countries, the students in our small, Brooklyn-based, public high school are all recently arrived refugees and immigrants who have come to the U.S. for the promise of opportunity and the ability to forge a new path for themselves and their families.

All of my students are learning English as a new language and they truly are the best future this country could hope for.

One challenge I have is finding texts that are both accessible to my students as English Language Learners as well as texts that pique their interests.

My Project

As part of their senior portfolio project, students need to read and analyze a novel, write an essay, and facilitate their own small group bookclub meeting. In an effort to meet the diverse needs of my students in terms of both English language acquisition and the interests of 82 different teenagers, I gave them twenty-three book options written by a number of excellent BIPOC authors. These eight are their top choices! Genres include magical realism, contemporary fiction, and historical fiction and topics run the gamut of teen pregnancy in a pre-Roe era, police violence and the American justice system, the rescue of precious historical documents in 1930s China, romance on the Manhattan subway, Navajo Code Talkers in WWII, and family hauntings in Texas.

Students like mine rarely get a real book to hold, let alone a new copy.

Putting books into their hands will allow them to take ownership of their reading and engage with the text at home, on the subway, and at school. They will be able to share ideas, analyze literary devices, and collaborate in their bookclub groups from their very own copy of the text.

Representation matters. I have seen the impact of stories on my students and the pride they exude when they read a text created by a writer who looks and speaks like them. Help me kindle and sustain their love of reading by buying BIPOC bookclub books for my students.

Ms. Burch International High School at Lafayette 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

82 students impacted 12donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Girls Like Us • Amazon Business $9.39 14 $131.46
The Sun Is Also a Star • Amazon Business $10.83 12 $129.96
The Library of Legends: A Novel • Amazon Business $12.99 6 $77.94
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter • Amazon Business $5.91 11 $65.01
Running • Amazon Business $9.49 4 $37.96
Running • Amazon Business $9.49 4 $37.96
Tigers, Not Daughters • Amazon Business $8.45 4 $33.80
Take the Mic: Fictional Stories of Everyday Resistance • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99

Materials cost

$532.08

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.98

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$570.06

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$100.60

Total project goal

$670.66

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $670.66

10 Donors

-$528.31

Donations toward project cost

-$454.46

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$73.85

match offer

-$136.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$115.60

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$20.40

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$6.35

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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