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Ms. Neal-Peters from Los Angeles, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Help Us Be Space Pirates with Andy Weir's The Martian!

Help me give my students an engaging class novel to connect to our unit on science, technology and exploration!

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My Project

Steps away from a lush community garden on our historic East Los Angeles campus, globally-minded citizens are the most important things we grow here!

Our Environmental Science and Humanitarian Magnet students make our garden grow!

Under the supervision of a certificated garden ranger, our students have built our garden from the ground up! They do it all... choose the plants we grow, design the garden layout, plant seedlings, weed the beds, and harvest the crops.

Despite the high-quality programming and expectations we have for our students, we are still a 100% Title I school. Our ethnic population is approximately 92% Hispanic or Latino, about 17% are English Language Learners (ELLs), and around 16% receive Special Education services.

A class set of a hyper-realistic fiction novel about being stranded on Mars will fit in beautifully with our unit on space exploration. Mark Watney, the main character in Andy Weir’s novel, travels to Mars and uses science to find his way home again. Not only is it an engaging story, but there will be multiple opportunities to draw connections to our learning as well as inspire some career exploration for my environmental science and humanitarian students. The classroom edition insures that the language will be student appropriate.

Ms. Neal-Peters El Sereno Middle School Grades 6-8

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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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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

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Where Your Donation Goes

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Martian: Classroom Edition: A Novel • Amazon Business $13.39 30 $401.70

Materials cost

$401.70

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $36.76

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.03

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$474.49

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$83.73

Total project goal

$558.22

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $558.22

1 Donor

-$279.10

Donations toward project cost

-$237.24

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$41.86

match offer

-$279.12

Match offer toward project cost

-$237.25

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$41.87

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 $0.00

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