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Mrs. Williamson from Houston, TX is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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History Is Lit!

Help me give my students great literature that encourages their understanding of history.

  • $747 goal

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My Students

What can I say about my students? They are the brightest and best young minds in our entire state! My students have big dreams that will take them to a variety of places beyond our school community.

I love that my students LOVE to read!!

My students love to read and learning about history through stories helps them to connect to the content. In fact it is when I turn our lessons into a story that they really catch the themes and content I want them to understand.

My Project

What is better than reading a great piece of literature or a graphic novel? What about reading the same great book with your friends. I want to create student selected reading groups, or pods, using young adult literature and graphic novels to help my students understand a variety of themes and content that we explore during our study of history. This selection of literature and graphic novels will help my students to better relate to some difficult concepts such as loss, ethnicity, culture, family separation, and growing up in a changing world. Students will have the opportunity to select books on a broad range of themes and read them with three of their classmates, a pod. This will enable the students to have small group discussions based on a set of literature and history questions. To create their book review, they will act out, rap or draw their favorite part of the book. This will encourage their classmates to select their book for their next self-select reading assignment.

By donating to my project, you will not only help my students understand history through literature; they will be "lit"!

This project will help my students take what they read in literature and apply it to actual history content. After completing their "pod read", discussion questions, and book review, they will have a better understanding of the primary source materials that will be used to inform our content study. This is a win-win for my students as they will be doing what they love, reading and chatting with friends as they become more proficient young historians.

Mrs. Williamson Young Womens College Preparatory Academy Grades 6-8

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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Houston, TX 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
Internment • Amazon Business $16.19 4 $64.76
The Prince and the Dressmaker • Amazon Business $13.42 4 $53.68
Hey, Kiddo (National Book Award Finalist) • Amazon Business $11.93 4 $47.72
The Hate U Give Collector's Edition • Amazon Business $11.76 4 $47.04
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice • Amazon Business $11.68 4 $46.72
They Called Us Enemy • Amazon Business $10.50 4 $42.00
On The Come Up • Amazon Business $9.99 4 $39.96
The Silence of Our Friends • Amazon Business $7.98 4 $31.92
New Kid • Amazon Business $7.79 4 $31.16
Monday's Not Coming • Amazon Business $7.70 4 $30.80
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter • Amazon Business $7.33 4 $29.32
47 • Amazon Business $7.08 4 $28.32
Piecing Me Together • Amazon Business $7.02 4 $28.08
Dear Martin • Amazon Business $5.48 4 $21.92
A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story • Amazon Business $5.00 4 $20.00
Speak • Amazon Business $4.03 4 $16.12

Materials cost

$579.52

Vendor shipping charges

 $15.96

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$8.69

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$634.17

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$111.91

Total project goal

$746.08

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $746.08

5 Donors

-$411.96

Donations toward project cost

-$363.84

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$48.12

Matching donations from our partners

-$318.04

Match offers toward project cost

-$270.33

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$47.71

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$16.09

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 $0.00

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