You're on track to get doubled donations (and unlock a reward for the colleague who referred you). Keep up the great work!
Take credit for your charitable giving! Check out your tax receipts
Donate
To use your $50 gift card credits, find a project to fund and we'll automatically apply your credits at checkout. Find a classroom project
Skip to main content

Help teachers & students in your hometown this season!
Use code HOME at checkout and your donation will be matched up to $100.

See this teacher's page

This teacher needs your help!

Mrs. Sills from Milledgeville, GA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

See what Mrs. Sills is requesting

Celebrating Black History Month Through Literature

My students need nonfiction books to learn how prominant African Americans are in our history.

  • $530 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Mrs. Sills has another project! Donate to Let's Start the School Year as Equals! to help her classroom.

$440 - complete this project and be a hero
Help Mrs. Sills

Mrs. Sills has another project! Donate to Let's Start the School Year as Equals! to help her classroom.

$440 - complete this project and be a hero

My Students

Our school is a Title l and high poverty school where every student receives free breakfast and lunch. My class is also an inclusion class full of funny, caring and adorable children who just want to learn and be like everyone else. The parents of our students want their children to succeed, but they, themselves, are very limited in the help they give to make this happen for their child.

My classroom needs books for our class library about African Americans and how they helped to make our country the grand country it is today.

February is Black History month and these would be great for us to use not only during the entire school year, but especially during the month of February. I would like for us to be able to spotlight a different person or event each day in February so for my class, which is 82% African American and 18% Caucasian, can see what an enormous impact African Americans have had on our country through the years and continuing today.

My Project

My classroom is madeup of 82% African Americans and 18% Caucasian. We are coming up on Black History Month in February and I want great literature and nonfiction to share with my class during this month and all through the school year that celebrates African Americans. This is very important for all of my students, no matter their culture or ethnicity.

I want my students to learn how important African Americans were, not only in the history of our country, but also how important they continue to be in all walks of life in our world.

We will soar the skies with the Tuskegee airmen of WWII, walk the Underground Railroad with Harriet Tubman and skat with Louie Armstrong on trumpet.

Mrs. Sills Midway Hills Academy Grades 3-5

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

Equity Focus

This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

More about Mrs. Sills

Milledgeville, GA View local requests

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

25 students impacted 43donors

Boost your odds

Add a profile photo in addition to your classroom photo. If you add a photo, it'll show up right here on your project page.

You are more likely to receive funding if you put a face to your name.

Upload a photo

Top rated for efficiency and transparency.

You donate directly to the teacher or project you care about and see where every dollar you give goes.

Expand the "Where your donation goes" section below to see exactly what Mrs. Sills is requesting.

See our finances

Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Ada Twist, Scientist • Amazon Business $10.77 2 $21.54
Misty Copeland: Power and Grace • Amazon Business $9.41 2 $18.82
Simone Biles: Superstar of Gymnastics: GymnStars Volume 6 • Amazon Business $8.19 2 $16.38
Brown Girl Dreaming • Amazon Business $8.00 2 $16.00
Fly High!: The Story of Bessie Coleman • Amazon Business $7.99 2 $15.98
Hidden Figures Young Readers' Edition • Amazon Business $7.99 2 $15.98
If A Bus Could Talk: The Story of Rosa Parks • Amazon Business $7.99 2 $15.98
Freedom's Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Stories • Amazon Business $7.25 2 $14.50
Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina • Amazon Business $7.19 2 $14.38
A Picture Book of Frederick Douglass (Picture Book Biographies) • Amazon Business $7.19 2 $14.38
America's Black Founders: Revolutionary Heroes & Early Leaders with 21 Activities (For Kids series) • Amazon Business $14.34 1 $14.34
Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans • Amazon Business $7.04 2 $14.08
Black Pioneers of Science and Invention • Amazon Business $7.04 2 $14.08
100 African-Americans Who Shaped American History (100 Series) • Amazon Business $7.01 2 $14.02
One Crazy Summer • Amazon Business $6.99 2 $13.98
Paperboy • Amazon Business $6.99 2 $13.98
A Picture Book of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Picture Book Biographies) • Amazon Business $6.94 2 $13.88
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry • Amazon Business $6.76 2 $13.52
Crispus Attucks: Black Leader of Colonial Patriots (Childhood of Famous Americans) • Amazon Business $6.49 2 $12.98
The Tuskegee Airmen Story • Amazon Business $12.39 1 $12.39
Gifted Hands, Revised Kids Edition: The Ben Carson Story (ZonderKidz Biography) • Amazon Business $6.19 2 $12.38
If You Lived When There Was Slavery In America • Amazon Business $6.12 2 $12.24
Quit Calling Me a Monster! • Amazon Business $11.82 1 $11.82
George Washington Carver: The Peanut Wizard (Smart About History) • Amazon Business $5.39 2 $10.78
Famous African-American Women (Dover History Coloring Book) • Amazon Business $4.99 2 $9.98
Barack Obama: Out of Many, One (Step into Reading) • Amazon Business $3.99 2 $7.98
Who Was Harriet Tubman? • Amazon Business $3.74 2 $7.48
From Slave to Soldier: Based on a True Civil War Story (Ready-to-Reads) • Amazon Business $3.46 2 $6.92
A Horn for Louis: Louis Armstrong--as a kid! (A Stepping Stone Book(TM)) • Amazon Business $3.45 2 $6.90

Materials cost

$387.67

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $26.75

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.82

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$450.24

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$79.45

Total project goal

$529.69

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $529.69

39 Donors

-$482.40

Donations toward project cost

-$434.94

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$47.46

match offer

-$18.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$15.30

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$2.70

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$29.29

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

Our team works hard to negotiate the best pricing and selections available.

View complete list Show less

Give the most requested basic supplies

See teacher requests

Give back to your community

Find opportunities to impact local needs by exploring a map of classroom projects near you.

See local area

Project Activity

Project Activity
Back to top

DonorsChoose is the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

As a teacher-founded nonprofit, we're trusted by thousands of teachers and supporters across the country. This classroom request for funding was created by Mrs. Sills and reviewed by the DonorsChoose team.

See how DonorsChoose works
{"pmaHash":"","showProjectRecommendations":true,"leadGenEnabled":true,"hideTeacherDetails":false,"schoolState":"GA","teacherPossessivePronoun":"her","PMsManager":null,"schoolGradeType":{"id":2,"name":"Elementary School"},"TeacherPMForms":{},"completingDonationAmount":0,"teacherHasClassroomPhoto":true,"proposalURL":"https://www.donorschoose.org/project/celebrating-black-history-month-through/2381488/","mayHaveReplacements":false,"numStudents":25,"teacherScreenName":"Mrs. Sills","isEquityFocus":true,"proposalHash":"-1317145880","isApplePayMobileOnly":true,"progressBarPercentage":100.00,"photosPublished":true,"queryString":"","DonorPMForm":null,"schoolCity":"Milledgeville","teachersOnPage":[1027711],"isTeacherViewingTheirOwnProject":false,"minimizedLeadGenEnabled":true,"proposalId":2381488,"proposalMessageFormModel":null,"numActiveProjects":1,"verifyShowPhotos":"","eligibleToBeCopied":false,"authorIds":{"1027711":{"owner":"Mrs. Sills","donationSalutations":{}}},"displayedPercentFunded":1.0,"proposalsOnPage":[2381488],"pmaId":"","teacherProfilePhotoURL":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp1027711_orig.jpg?width=136&height=136&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1597514898849","teacherHasProfilePhoto":true,"currentWorkflowStatusCode":21,"teacherChallengeId":192577,"isApplePayEnabled":true,"fundedByTarget":false,"activeProject":{"completingDonationAmount":440,"proposalURL":"project/lets-start-the-school-year-as-equals/9400285/","proposalTitle":"Let's Start the School Year as Equals!","proposalId":9400285},"donorIdsForImpactPhotoCheck":["OTgwMTUw","MTUxODU2Nw==","MjAwNzM3OQ==","MjMzNzQ3Mg==","MjM1NTM4Nw==","NDI5NDcyNw==","MTExNzg1Ng==","MzQxMzgzNw==","MTUzNzk0OQ==","NDI1NzU2NA==","Mzg3MjM4Nw==","MjE3MjY2Ng==","MTAwNTc4Mw==","MTAyNzcxMQ==","MjY0MDAwOQ==","NDI0OTYyNQ==","NTc5OTg1","OTcxMTA5","MzA3ODYy","MzYxNDIzNw==","MTc3NzkwNw==","MTQ3NjU0MA==","NDI1MzA4OQ==","NDk4MTk5","MzgxNTc4Mg==","NDIyMjQz","MTIyMjk5Ng==","ODYxMzIx","MzQxNzE=","NjgyMjg1","MjU1Njk=","MzY0Nzk4Mw==","MjgxNzYwNg==","NDI4NTAzOA==","MjQ2NzQ2Mw==","NDI1ODYwNw==","NjkxNjAw","MzA4NDYzMA==","NDIzMDgw","NDA3OTE3NQ=="],"teacherId":1027711,"schoolCounty":"Baldwin","fullyFunded":true,"isStudentLed":false,"isExpired":true,"schoolStateObj":{"code":"GA","name":"Georgia"}}