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Ms. Becker from Baltimore, MD is requesting art supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Documenting Our Lives: A Sketch A Day Project

Help me give my students their own sketchbook/journals to use for their AP and Pre AP art classes.

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My Project

Do you remember your high school art class? Hopefully it was an exciting class where you grew both academically and personally. As a graphic design and AP 2D design teacher, I am always looking for opportunities where my students can use art to creatively articulate themselves through writing and drawing.

Not only do I want my students to be prepared for higher level art courses I want them to learn how to communicate both abstractly and authentically.

To prepare high school students to be critical thinkers through art making is the most important objective of a high school art clas. I want to teach my students to communicate, interact, and work collaboratively and to be critical examiners of contemporary media. I want my students to be able to keep a personal sketchbook and create a drawing a day and a journal entry every day as a personal record of their thoughts and questions. Keeping a sketchbook is a great way of keeping track of creative ideas and getting in the habit of regular drawing.

There's a certain magic that happens while sketching and journaling. In the most literal sense, sketching is problem-solving. We need sketchbooks to start their new school year online so they will be able to keep a personal drawing journal of their experiences, thoughts, ideas and feelings.

Ms. Becker Western Senior High School 407 Grades 9-12

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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Baltimore, MD 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

210 students impacted 9donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Bienfang Young Artists Sketchbook - 9 x 12, 36 Sheets • Blick Art Materials $3.35 100 $335.00

Materials cost

$335.00

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $20.10

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.02

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$390.12

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$68.84

Total project goal

$458.96

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $458.96

8 Donors

-$370.07

Donations toward project cost

-$322.12

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$47.95

match offer

-$80.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$68.00

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$12.00

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$8.89

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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