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Ms. Lewis from New York, NY is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Read Alouds for Social Justice

My students need picture books and a document camera for social justice read alouds.

  • $503 goal

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My Students

My classroom is home to 26 incredible first graders. Our arts-focused K-8 public school is located in a predominantly low-income and urban community with a large bilingual population, which presents both challenges and opportunities.

My students are incredibly curious, active, quirky, and compassionate, and have diverse interests, backgrounds, and needs.

We spend our days together singing, asking questions, reading, writing, discussing, working with numbers, learning about our world, and striving to make our classroom community more inclusive, supportive, and kind.

My Project

Conversations about social justice and identity happen often in our classroom. My small but mighty first graders have a strong sense of what is right and wrong, and we have deep and critical discussions about big ideas we encounter in fictional stories, studies of historical events, and our daily school life together. As a teacher, I find that the best way to introduce students to challenging topics and concepts is though interactive read aloud and discussion.

We need vivid, frank, and age-appropriate picture books about racial justice, gender equality, environmentalism, labor, immigration, human rights, and stories of historically oppressed peoples including Native Americans, Black Americans, immigrants, and the LGBTQ+ community.

With this new library of social justice read aloud books, plus a document camera for projecting pages onto our Promethean Board, we will be able to learn even more about these big ideas.

“Looking at the past must only be a means of understanding more clearly what and who they are so that they can more wisely build the future.” (Paulo Friere)

These books will help me carefully, thoughtfully, and candidly teach my young students about injustice so that they are equipped and empowered to speak out against it.

Ms. Lewis PS 191 Riverside School Makers Grades PreK-2

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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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
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Ipevo Ziggi-HD Plus High-Definition USB Document Camera (CDVU-06IP) • Amazon Business $99.00 1 $99.00
Granddaddy's Turn: A Journey to the Ballot Box • Amazon Business $13.69 1 $13.69
Malala's Magic Pencil • Amazon Business $12.35 1 $12.35
Chasing Freedom: The Life Journeys of Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony, Inspired by Historical Facts • Amazon Business $11.98 1 $11.98
My Name Is Truth: The Life of Sojourner Truth • Amazon Business $11.98 1 $11.98
Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History • Amazon Business $11.68 1 $11.68
Yo Soy Muslim: A Father's Letter to His Daughter • Amazon Business $11.48 1 $11.48
Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down (Jane Addams Honor Book (Awards)) • Amazon Business $10.98 1 $10.98
Nelson Mandela • Amazon Business $10.98 1 $10.98
Two Friends: Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass • Amazon Business $10.98 1 $10.98
The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq • Amazon Business $10.44 1 $10.44
Look What Brown Can Do! • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
A Picture Book of Jackie Robinson (Picture Book Biography) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Dad, Who Will I Be? • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
The Earth And I (Rise and Shine) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
A Picture Book of Thurgood Marshall (Picture Book Biography) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Dinner at Aunt Connie's House • Amazon Business $7.91 1 $7.91
A Picture Book of Sojourner Truth (Picture Book Biography) • Amazon Business $7.89 1 $7.89
Bippity Bop Barbershop • Amazon Business $7.72 1 $7.72
A Picture Book of Frederick Douglass (Picture Book Biography) • Amazon Business $7.70 1 $7.70
A Picture Book of Harriet Tubman (Picture Book Biography) • Amazon Business $7.70 1 $7.70
Olivia's Birds: Saving the Gulf • Amazon Business $7.62 1 $7.62
Ruby's Wish • Amazon Business $7.48 1 $7.48
The People Shall Continue • Amazon Business $7.38 1 $7.38
A Picture Book of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Picture Book Biography) • Amazon Business $7.31 1 $7.31
Wangari Maathai: The Woman Who Planted Millions of Trees • Amazon Business $6.71 1 $6.71
A Picture Book of Rosa Parks (Picture Book Biography) • Amazon Business $6.67 1 $6.67
A Picture Book of George Washington Carver (Picture Book Biography) • Amazon Business $6.66 1 $6.66
Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman (Picture Puffin) • Amazon Business $5.88 1 $5.88
Why Should I Recycle? (Why Should I? Books) • Amazon Business $5.10 1 $5.10
The Colors of Us • Amazon Business $4.74 1 $4.74
National Geographic Readers: Nelson Mandela (Readers Bios) • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
Martin Luther King Jr.: A Peaceful Leader (I Can Read Level 2) • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
National Geographic Readers: Martin Luther King, Jr. (Readers Bios) • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
National Geographic Readers: George Washington Carver (Readers Bios) • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
National Geographic Readers: Frederick Douglass (Level 2) (Readers Bios) • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
National Geographic Readers: Rosa Parks (Readers Bios) • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
Dream March: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the March on Washington (Step into Reading) • Amazon Business $3.28 1 $3.28
Katherine Johnson (You Should Meet) • Amazon Business $2.31 1 $2.31

Materials cost

$391.49

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.87

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$427.36

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$75.42

Total project goal

$502.78

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $502.78

9 Donors

-$500.13

Donations toward project cost

-$427.36

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$72.77

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$2.65

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