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

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Classroom Library for Historical Readers!

Help me give my students a love of history through reading by creating a historical classroom library that focuses specifically on the content learned in 8th grade - from Exploration and Colonization to the Civil War and Reconstruction.

  • $581 goal

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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

Our middle school is a new campus in a high-poverty area, serving over 1,250 students in grades 6 through 8. Over 88% of our students participate in the free or reduced-price lunch program. Our campus was created by combining students from two different middle schools and pulling up the 6th graders onto our campus from our four feeder elementary campuses. We are creating a new sense of family and community and serving a diverse population of students.

Staff and students value Family, Integrity, Respect, Strength, and Teamwork.

We create engaging learning environments that foster positive relationships and develop growth mindsets. We allow students to infuse technology in everything they do. We seek to build digital citizenship and responsibility in our students with what they create and share out into our digital world. Our students are caring, curious, creative, and love to work together in teams. They care about leaving a positive impression and the older students serve as role models to our younger 6th graders. We truly have the best students who deserve the very best!

My Project

Many students struggle connecting to history and often do not see how it is directly relevant to their daily lives or how important our history is on our present and our future. Our students love to read, but I do not have books to create a classroom library for students when they finish their work or tests early, want to research more in-depth information, or want to check them out to read at home.

I hope to help students find a love of history through their love of reading by creating a classroom library full of historical novels, biographies, primary source documents, and fun and engaging historical books.

Students will be able to use the Smithsonian and pictorial books to visualize what we are learning about in class. Primary source documents, like Common Sense, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Federalist/Anti-Federalist Papers, will allow students to read and explore important historical documents first hand. Students can learn more in depth information about presidents through biographies and encyclopedias.

Ms. Boepple Lanny Frasier Middle School Grades 6-8

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Mesquite, 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

450 students impacted 49donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Our Country's Presidents: A Complete Encyclopedia of the U.S. Presidency • Amazon Business $17.49 2 $34.98
The American Revolution: A Visual History • Amazon Business $29.01 1 $29.01
How to Read the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence • Amazon Business $24.99 1 $24.99
The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 (The Revolution Trilogy) • Amazon Business $24.00 1 $24.00
Weird But True Know-It-All: U.S. Presidents • Amazon Business $22.60 1 $22.60
Founding Fathers: The Fight for Freedom and the Birth of American Liberty • Amazon Business $22.00 1 $22.00
James Monroe: The American Presidents Series: The 5th President, 1817-1825 (American Presidents (Times)) • Amazon Business $22.00 1 $22.00
The Presidents: Noted Historians Rank America's Best--and Worst--Chief Executives • Amazon Business $19.89 1 $19.89
The Civil War: A Visual History • Amazon Business $18.81 1 $18.81
Accidental Presidents: Eight Men Who Changed America • Amazon Business $18.00 1 $18.00
The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House • Amazon Business $17.80 1 $17.80
The Big Book of Presidents: From George Washington to Barack Obama • Amazon Business $16.05 1 $16.05
The Constitution and the Declaration of Independence: The Constitution of the United States of America • Amazon Business $15.95 1 $15.95
Ulysses S. Grant: The American Presidents Series: The 18th President, 1869-1877 • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
Who Was Abraham Lincoln? • Amazon Business $13.99 1 $13.99
A Short History of Reconstruction, Updated Edition (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) • Amazon Business $13.58 1 $13.58
The American Revolution: A Captivating Guide to the American Revolutionary War and the United States of America's Struggle for Independence from Great Britain • Amazon Business $13.34 1 $13.34
The Civil War: A Captivating Guide to the American Civil War and Its Impact on the History of the United States • Amazon Business $13.34 1 $13.34
Grant • Amazon Business $12.72 1 $12.72
The War That Forged a Nation: Why the Civil War Still Matters • Amazon Business $12.38 1 $12.38
Founding Fathers: The Essential Guide to the Men Who Made America • Amazon Business $12.38 1 $12.38
The Presidents Visual Encyclopedia • Amazon Business $11.89 1 $11.89
The Federalist Papers • Amazon Business $11.80 1 $11.80
Kid Presidents: True Tales of Childhood from America's Presidents (Kid Legends) • Amazon Business $9.76 1 $9.76
The Anti-Federalist Papers and the Constitutional Convention Debates (Signet Classics) • Amazon Business $7.15 1 $7.15
Common Sense (Bantam Classic) • Amazon Business $4.91 1 $4.91

Materials cost

$456.30

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.84

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$493.14

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$87.02

Total project goal

$580.16

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $580.16

48 Donors

-$559.77

Donations toward project cost

-$482.52

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$77.25

match offer

-$12.50

Match offer toward project cost

-$10.62

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$1.88

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$7.90

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