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Mrs. Touceda from South Gate, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Reading Just Mercy: Addressing Social Justice in the Classroom

Help me give my students the opportunity to engage with this moving novel of social justice and redemption.

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My Students

My students are from south Los Angeles County, the majority of them are Latinos, many are second language learners, and they attend a high school with over 2000 students. They are part of the Health, Science, and Medicine Academy at our high school.

My students are from a lower socio-economic community and many will be the first in their family to graduate high school.

With distance learning, it is even more important to provide as many scaffolds as possible for students.

My Project

This project will provide novels to students in my AP English Language and Composition class instead of relying on yet another digital copy. During this time of remote learning providing students with such a powerful novel allowing them to connect real-life events with current events and building on ideas about racial and social equality that they learned in reading To Kill a Mockingbird in my class last year. As these copies will belong to them they will be able to employ the close reading skills they've been practicing by annotating their own, personal copies. Following reading the novel they will have the opportunity to write three different practice essays in preparation for the 2021 AP Exam.

Mrs. Touceda South Gate Senior High School Grades 9-12

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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South Gate, CA View local requests

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

35 students impacted 9donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption (PB) • MahoganyBooks $15.30 35 $535.50

Materials cost

$535.50

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $49.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$8.03

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$622.53

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$109.86

Total project goal

$732.39

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $732.39

8 Donors

-$363.98

Donations toward project cost

-$313.13

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$50.85

match offer

-$364.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$309.40

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$54.60

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$4.41

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 $0.00

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