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Ms. Plourde from Las Vegas, NV is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Mirrors and Windows #2: Books to Reflect My Diverse Students

Help me give my students books that can serve as MIRRORS (reflecting back their culture, values, and experiences) or WINDOWS (empathetic glimpses into another's world).

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My Students

My students are resilient, kind, young adults at a Title I school. Many of them struggled immensely last year during distance learning. The struggle continues this year as we try to build back some of the academic stamina and social-emotional skills that students need to feel confident, safe, and supported at school.

Our students have been out of the practice of reading for pleasure for some time, and it is crucial to provide them with reading opportunities that excite them and reflect their varied interests and backgrounds.

It is my hope that providing them with more independent reading choices and new, exciting young adult titles will rekindle the joy to be found in reading.

My Project

My students are loving their independent reading time where they get both class time and time at home to dive into a book of their choosing. This project would help add to my classroom library collection and offer more diversity in the books accessible to them.

We talk all the time in my classroom about books being either MIRRORS or WINDOWS; they can either reflect back on our own experiences, or they can provide us with a glimpse into a very different life than the one we live; my students need more of both in their lives in order to spark their love of reading and to progress their reading stamina and skills.

Bringing more contemporary titles into my classroom library is a way to show my students that I see them, that I value their identities, and that I'm committed to making them, lifelong readers.

Ms. Plourde Durango High School Grades 9-12

Equity Focus

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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
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Let Me Hear a Rhyme • Amazon Business $17.09 1 $17.09
Harlem Hustle • Amazon Business $16.08 1 $16.08
You've Reached Sam: A Novel • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
Major Detours: A Choices Novel • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
The Bronzed Beasts (The Gilded Wolves, 3) • Amazon Business $15.75 1 $15.75
The Truth About White Lies • Amazon Business $15.49 1 $15.49
Vinyl Moon • Amazon Business $15.18 1 $15.18
Prisoner B-3087 • Amazon Business $15.14 1 $15.14
One Carefree Day • Amazon Business $15.00 1 $15.00
The Silvered Serpents (The Gilded Wolves, 2) • Amazon Business $14.21 1 $14.21
Felix Ever After: Kacen Callender • Amazon Business $13.94 1 $13.94
Luck of the Titanic • Amazon Business $13.73 1 $13.73
Don't Hate the Player • Amazon Business $13.69 1 $13.69
Faking Reality • Amazon Business $13.29 1 $13.29
On The Come Up • Amazon Business $13.28 1 $13.28
Ink Knows No Borders: Poems of the Immigrant and Refugee Experience • Amazon Business $12.29 1 $12.29
The Library of Lost Things • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
Why We Fly • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
The Voice in My Head • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
In the Key of Nira Ghani • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Five Feet Apart • Amazon Business $10.57 1 $10.57
Piecing Me Together • Amazon Business $9.89 1 $9.89
Within These Wicked Walls: A Novel • Amazon Business $9.49 1 $9.49
I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives • Amazon Business $9.19 1 $9.19
Internment • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Booked (The Crossover Series) • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Salt to the Sea • Amazon Business $7.59 1 $7.59
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter • Amazon Business $5.91 1 $5.91

Materials cost

$362.71

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $28.47

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.44

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$426.62

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$75.29

Total project goal

$501.91

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $501.91

5 Donors

-$167.29

Donations toward project cost

-$142.20

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$25.09

match offer

-$334.61

Match offer toward project cost

-$284.42

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$50.19

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