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Mrs. DeClusin from Pueblo West, CO is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Reading for My Present and My Future

My students need reading material that they can relate to and understand as they see it on the news as opposed to old (but classic) texts that they can not make connections with.

  • $350 goal

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Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

What makes my students so special is they have the desire and drive to learn. They love being introduced to new concepts as well as being able to apply those concepts in life (discussing how change occurs and applying it by interviewing their grandparents to talk about chang since they were kids). My kids have amazing hearts and display this by sending Christmas cards to a terminally ill 9 year old boy as well as donating over 100 toys to families who are less fortunate

My Project

By receiving these books, my students will be able to read texts that are relatable and pertinent to the daily lives they lead as opposed to reading texts that are 20+ years old with language that my students do not understand as the way we speak in today’s society has changed. My students love to read and like to be engaged and feel as if they are part of the story, and with the books my school currently has, they are not engaged which is resulting in the students losing the desire to read. My students and myself would greatly appreciate anything you are willing to give.

Mrs. DeClusin
Grades 6-8
  • Skyview Middle School
  • Pueblo West, CO
    • More than a third 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

    This project will reach 95 students.

    3 donors have given to this project.

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition) • AKJ Education $10.63 5 $53.15
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier • AKJ Education $9.49 5 $47.45
Night • AKJ Education $6.82 5 $34.10
Inside Out and Back Again • AKJ Education $6.56 5 $32.80
Bud, Not Buddy • AKJ Education $5.83 5 $29.15
Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps • AKJ Education $5.10 5 $25.50
Out of Bounds Seven Stories of Conflict and Hope • AKJ Education $5.10 5 $25.50

Materials cost

$247.65

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $15.85

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.71

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$297.21

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$52.45

Total project goal

$349.66

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $349.66

3 Donors

-$349.66

Donations toward project cost

-$297.21

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$52.45

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