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Mr. Arsenie from Chicago, IL is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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New Books for 2020

Help me give my students a class set of books about plants and indigenous knowledge, plus new updated titles for our Cinema Club and students interested in the paranormal.

  • $957 goal

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Mr. Arsenie has another project! Donate to Static No More to help his classroom.

All donations currently doubled!
You can complete this project for $494.
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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

My students are natural-born scientists and explorers. They just don't know it yet! They are inquisitive, they want to learn, they're analytical, they crave new learning experiences, want to search for meaning and truth, share their own stories, and become agents of change to make the world a more verdant place. And it is my job to facilitate and give them access to the knowledge and the skills they need to get the answers and purpose they seek. We, like many public schools, struggle with purchasing new supplies, especially technology, and we must then rely on your generosity to fill in the financial and ultimately learning gaps that allow us to get the technology, experiences, and opportunities our students need to grow into passionate academics and global citizens.

My Project

My students are passionate about the environment and it shows in their class work, curiosity and inquisitiveness about the issues we explore in class: desertification, population, poverty, migration, water and food scarcity and nature in general. And while we have every scientific perspective available at our fingertips through net access on our Chromebooks as well as textbook and science journal use, what we lack is an artistic, visual, photographic, fine arts perspective for the environmental issues of our time. In class, we always reference pop culture in our conversations and engage in stimulating ideas around cinema, art, nature and the nature of science. My students love movies, the paranormal, yet they lack the discerning analysis that comes from connecting the science, fiction and the art of movie making.

I hope this second project around cinema books and now paranormal writing will open up students' curiosity and further foster a culture of inquisitiveness and curiosity.

The power of photography and cinema as a documentary form is underrated in the modern classroom as a link to engage students in conversations that come back to science and science concepts. In particular, my Academic Decathlon course/team is always fascinated by the links between science fiction and cinema and the science we explore in class- also next year's Academic Decathlon topic is revolving around the Space Race and Cold War. Lastly, we discuss issues of environmental science and we almost never discuss the power of the arts and in particular the photographic/cinematic medium that has marked the environmental movement as of late (Avatar as a metaphor anyone?).

Mr. Arsenie Schurz High School Grades 9-12

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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.

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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
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants • Amazon Business $14.79 30 $443.70
The Art and Soul of Dune • Amazon Business $47.58 1 $47.58
The Making of Aliens • Amazon Business $47.49 1 $47.49
The Secrets of Tenet: Inside Christopher Nolan's Quantum Cold War | Foreword by John David Washington, backword by Kenneth Branagh (Tenet Movie, Making of Tenet, Movie Books, Coffee Table Art Books) • Amazon Business $45.49 1 $45.49
The Art of Star Wars: The Mandalorian (Season One) • Amazon Business $36.00 1 $36.00
Blade Runner 2049 - Interlinked - The Art • Amazon Business $32.99 1 $32.99
Dune: Deluxe Edition • Amazon Business $26.49 1 $26.49
The Big Breakthrough: Confronting UFOs, Men in Black, Mothman, and Mysterious Humanoids - Trojan Horses of a Breakaway Civilization? • Amazon Business $18.99 1 $18.99
Strange Creatures From Time and Space • Amazon Business $18.99 1 $18.99
The Big Blackout: A True Tale of Ultraterrestrial Terror • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
I Never Would Have Slept With You If I Had Known You Were a Giant Birdman From Outer Space: Ancient Aliens and Other Mysteries of the Modern Mind • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
Our Haunted Planet • Amazon Business $17.95 1 $17.95

Materials cost

$771.65

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.57

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$813.22

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$143.51

Total project goal

$956.73

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $956.73

4 Donors

-$515.84

Donations toward project cost

-$438.47

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$77.37

Matching donations from our partners

-$440.88

Match offers toward project cost

-$374.75

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$66.13

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$0.01

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 $0.00

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