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Ms. Smock from Indianapolis, IN is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Cross-Curricular Connections: Building Our Music Classroom Library (Part I)

Help me give my students a collection of diverse, inspiring books to build our classroom library.

  • $308 goal

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Ms. Smock has another project! Donate to Refresh and Replenish My Fifth Grade Music Classroom to help her classroom.

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Ms. Smock has another project! Donate to Refresh and Replenish My Fifth Grade Music Classroom to help her classroom.

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My Project

Music education is of course necessary in its own right, but there is no doubt that music is also an eclectic subject that contains and relates to many others, from math and science to language and history. This understanding of music's inherent cross-curricular connections combined with my school district's push to increase student reading and writing has inspired me to begin building a classroom library for my general music students.

The books I have selected for this project represent diverse people and ideas, promote social & emotional learning, and celebrate history and culture, all through a musical lens.

Books also include Spanish and bi-lingual texts to support our several English-Language Learners. With these books, I will be able to have structured reading time once a week in addition to having a wonderfully enriching option for students who complete assignments early on days that we focus on projects or individual work.

My goals through this project are to promote reading comprehension and literacy skills among my 5th and 6th grade students, to provide them another avenue for learning more about how music and musicians shape our world, and to hopefully inspire a love of reading, or at least a strong appreciation for it, in as many students as possible.

Ms. Smock StonyBrook Intermediate & Middle School Grades 6-8

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

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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Indianapolis, IN 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

120 students impacted 6donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Drum Dream Girl How One Girls Courage Changed Music (hardcover) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $22.00 1 $22.00
Song for Jimi: The Story of Guitar Legend Jimi Hendrix • Amazon Business $14.90 1 $14.90
Sadiq and Hooyo's Drum • Amazon Business $14.31 1 $14.31
Simon B. Rhymin' Gets in the Game (Simon B. Rhymin’, 3) • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
Song in the City • Amazon Business $12.39 1 $12.39
RESPECT: Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul • Amazon Business $12.29 1 $12.29
A Duet for Home • Amazon Business $12.25 1 $12.25
Lotus Bloom and the Afro Revolution • Amazon Business $11.79 1 $11.79
Nina: A Story of Nina Simone • Amazon Business $11.52 1 $11.52
Listen: How Evelyn Glennie, a Deaf Girl, Changed Percussion • Amazon Business $11.29 1 $11.29
Amina's Song (Amina's Voice) • Amazon Business $11.29 1 $11.29
Because • Amazon Business $11.12 1 $11.12
Sing a Song: How Lift Every Voice and Sing Inspired Generations • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Simon B. Rhymin' Takes a Stand (Simon B. Rhymin’, 2) • Amazon Business $9.69 1 $9.69
Simon B. Rhymin' (Simon B. Rhymin’, 1) • Amazon Business $9.41 1 $9.41
Beyoncé: Shine Your Light • Amazon Business $8.24 1 $8.24
Music, Music for Everyone (Rise and Shine) • Amazon Business $7.59 1 $7.59
Who Is Stevie Wonder? (Who Was?) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Cantante súper estrella (Sofia Martinez en español) (Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Singing Superstar (Sofia Martinez) • Amazon Business $5.95 1 $5.95

Materials cost

$222.99

Vendor shipping charges

 $5.00

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.34

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$261.33

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$46.12

Total project goal

$307.45

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $307.45

4 Donors

-$153.94

Donations toward project cost

-$148.04

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$5.90

match offer

-$133.28

Match offer toward project cost

-$113.29

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$19.99

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$20.22

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 $0.00

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