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Ms. Rivers from Cambridge, MA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Diversifying Our ELA Curriculum

Help me give my students access to more diverse books and will help us have a greater variety of read-aloud books and text passages to analyze, as well as have more authentic conversations about community and diversity.

  • $533 goal

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Ms. Rivers has another project! Donate to Learning History & Resilience through Sharing Stories to help her classroom.

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My Students

This year I am learning 6th grade ELA and Social Studies with approximately 100 students reading at multiple different grade levels. My classes include students learning with social/academic exceptionalities, English language learners, and students with 504 testing accommodations. These all-stars are putting in so much work towards gaining the fundamental reading and comprehension skills they need for future success.

The students in our classroom are bright, kind, hardworking kids.

They come to school each day ready to learn, appreciate the structure, and thrive with routine and high expectations. We respect each other's learning and work hard to ensure everyone can be successful. My students are supporting each other as they begin reading aloud, some for the first time, discussing what they read, learn fundamental skills in phonics and vocabulary, and begin mastering the skills they need to be successful in middle school and beyond.

This addition to our classroom will help all our students learn these valuable skills, while also being able to focus on social, comprehension, and social studies skills. High interest books help these students become life-long learners!

My Project

My amazing students have been working incredibly hard using the assignments that I have given them with Google Classroom, YouTube, and Audible Stories. However, my learners would benefit greatly from me having a more diverse library of books to choose from for read aloud and passage annotation assignments.

This project will provide our class with grade-level reading opportunities to use while working remotely so we can have reading relevant to our world today.

Once we excitedly return to school, these books will make a phenomenal addition to our library, giving students the opportunity to borrow and enjoy these books year-after-year.

Ms. Rivers Putnam Avenue Upper School Grades 6-8

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.

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Cambridge, MA View local requests

More than half 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

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Uglies (4 Bk Set) • AKJ Education $38.88 1 $38.88
The Divergent Series Divergent Insurgent Allegiant Four • AKJ Education $37.93 1 $37.93
The Librarian of Auschwitz • AKJ Education $14.59 1 $14.59
Under the Mesquite • AKJ Education $14.56 1 $14.56
How I Resist • AKJ Education $13.86 1 $13.86
The Pink Hat • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Genesis Begins Again • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Wolf Hollow • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
The Red Pencil • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
She Persisted • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
I'll Give You the Sun • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Let the Children March • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Everything I Never Told You • AKJ Education $12.41 1 $12.41
The Parker Inheritance • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
The Stars Beneath Our Feet • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
Ghost Boys • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
A Thousand Splendid Suns • AKJ Education $11.68 1 $11.68
Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Novel • AKJ Education $11.67 1 $11.67
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close A Novel • AKJ Education $11.67 1 $11.67
Persepolis • AKJ Education $11.64 1 $11.64
All American Boys • AKJ Education $8.75 1 $8.75
A is for Activist • AKJ Education $8.72 1 $8.72
American Born Chinese • AKJ Education $7.69 1 $7.69
The House on Mango Street • AKJ Education $7.48 1 $7.48
Dear Martin • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
Heart and Soul • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
The Misfits • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Hidden Figures Young Readers' Edition • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry • AKJ Education $6.29 1 $6.29
Warriors Don't Cry • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Boys Without Names • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Ninth Ward • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
One Crazy Summer • AKJ Education $5.59 1 $5.59

Materials cost

$410.11

Vendor shipping charges

 $6.00

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.15

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$452.26

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$79.81

Total project goal

$532.07

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $532.07

5 Donors

-$278.54

Donations toward project cost

-$236.76

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$41.78

match offer

-$253.53

Match offer toward project cost

-$215.50

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$38.03

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