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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 2)

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

  • $241 goal

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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 3-5

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Indianapolis, IN 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

420 students impacted 33donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
What Is Rock and Roll? (What Was...?) • Amazon Business $16.80 1 $16.80
Your Name is a Song (hardcover) • MahoganyBooks $15.29 1 $15.29
Finding the Music / En pos de la música (English and Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $12.95 1 $12.95
The Roots of Rap: 16 Bars on the 4 Pillars of Hip-Hop • Amazon Business $12.59 1 $12.59
Mary's Idea • Amazon Business $12.29 1 $12.29
When the Beat Was Born: DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop (Coretta Scott King - John Steptoe Award for New Talent) • Amazon Business $12.19 1 $12.19
The Music of the Sea • Amazon Business $11.89 1 $11.89
In the Key of Us • Amazon Business $10.69 1 $10.69
La música del mar (The Music of the Sea) (Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $9.79 1 $9.79
Alvin Ailey • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Ella Fitzgerald: The Tale of a Vocal Virtuosa (Great Black Performers, 3) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
¿Quién fue Selena? (Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra (Caldecott Honor Book) (Great Black Performers, 2) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Who Was Selena? • Amazon Business $5.64 1 $5.64
Lady Gaga: A Little Golden Book Biography • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Taylor Swift: A Little Golden Book Biography • Amazon Business $4.78 1 $4.78
My Little Golden Book About Dolly Parton • Amazon Business $3.40 1 $3.40

Materials cost

$163.25

Vendor shipping charges

$9.00

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.45

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$204.70

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$36.12

Total project goal

$240.82

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$240.82

32 Donors

-$141.05

Donations toward project cost

-$134.70

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$6.35

match offer

-$82.35

Match offer toward project cost

-$70.00

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$12.35

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$17.42

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$0.00

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