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Mrs. Moser from Spring Valley, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Freedom and Slavery in the American Revolution

Help me give my students their own copy of the novel Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson. Distance Learning means a class set will not suffice this year.

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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

I teach middle school Humanities as well as Newcomer ELD in San Diego. We combine history and language arts with texts from around the world both literary and expository. My newcomer class is the largest in the district and helps a melting pot of students from Mexico, to Egypt, to Japan acclimate to school in a new country and in a new language.

These students are hard-working, caring, innovative, and truly the hope for the future.

As a STEAM school, we incorporate critical thinking and problem solving into our curriculum and guide students to form their own opinions and arguments based on the information given and researched. The diverse backgrounds of the students bring many new ideas to the table and foster empathy in addition to innovation.

My Project

My students are enraptured with this story of Isabel and her fight for freedom and personal identity. This novel follows Isabel as she is denied freedom from slavery multiple times and thrust into the middle of the American Revolution in New York. She becomes a spy, stealing from her cruel Loyalist masters and giving information to the Rebel Patriots. She learns to be true to herself despite the horrors inflicted upon herself and her baby sister, Ruth.

"She cannot chain my soul"-Isabel Gardener, Chains.

The powerful imagery and figurative language throughout the novel help the students visualize and remember the events of the story. They analyze the meaning of freedom and how it applies to one's mind as well as one's body. This novel also helps them learn empathy and compassion.

This novel is a great example of how we blend history with literature in our Humanities classes. Since we are starting the year in distance learning, it is vital that each of my students has a copy.

Mrs. Moser Steam Academy at La Presa Grades 6-8

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Spring Valley, CA 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

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Chains (The Seeds of America Trilogy) • Amazon Business $5.59 80 $447.20

Materials cost

$447.20

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $40.92

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.71

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$524.83

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$92.62

Total project goal

$617.45

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $617.45

5 Donors

-$469.10

Donations toward project cost

-$422.73

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$46.37

match offer

-$120.12

Match offer toward project cost

-$102.10

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$18.02

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$28.23

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 $0.00

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