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Ms. Grande from New Haven, CT is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Creating Possibilities!

My students need 50 copies each of the novels Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till and Monster.

  • $1,299 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

Do you remember curling up with a great book and traveling in time? You were so engaged and didn't want the story to end! I want my students to have this feeling and continue their reading outside of the classroom. We need copies of these class novels because we only have one class set to share.

My students are from various working class neighborhoods in the New Haven area.

They are bused to my school in search of better opportunities and access to rigorous education. They are hard working children, willing to leave their neighborhoods in order to gain the quality education they deserve. My school is a K-8 magnet dedicated to exploration and creating new ways of thinking and ideas. The students are the leaders and the teachers the facilitators. Most have known each other since Kindergarten, so there is a strong sense of community and comradery . They are a learning community that deserve the opportunity to aim and achieve with the proper resources. We are surrounded by phenomenal ivy league schools, and I know my students need to feel assured that they too can attend those places of higher education. I am confident that through literacy anything can be achieved.

My Project

I am requesting two novels, "Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till" and "Monster," for each child in my classroom because they deserve to be able to access the literature at home and not only in class. Classes are 50 minutes long, and we cannot rush and read from the novels because we don't have enough for everybody. They should be able to engage the text from home, to respond in their Reader/Writers notebook. They must be able to cite quotes from the novels from home without trying to use their memory as a resource. With the new Common Core standards my students need to have text-based evidence in all that we will be doing in class: PowerPoint/Prezi presentations, essays, poetry, songs, court trials, debates, tweets and even memes.

I believe that your assistance will give my students the confidence in knowing that others have their best interest in mind, and that education matters not only to their teacher and parents but to a larger global community.

I will be sure to instill a responsibility in them-- to a larger community of book/education lovers. They will complete these two novels and gain adequate experience in citing sources and creating through text-based learning. They will be engaged, guaranteed!

Ms. Grande Conte - West Hills Magnet School Grades 6-8

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

100 students impacted 34donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till • AKJ Books $13.86 50 $693.00
Monster • AKJ Books $7.29 50 $364.50

Materials cost

$1,057.50

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$15.86

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,103.36

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$194.71

Total project goal

$1,298.07

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,298.07

30 Donors

-$1,091.31

Donations toward project cost

-$929.11

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$162.20

Matching donations from our partners

-$205.00

Match offers toward project cost

-$174.25

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$30.75

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$1.76

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 $0.00

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