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Ms. Mendez Navarro from Salinas, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Reading Opens Different Doors

Help me give my students a class set of the book, The Circuit, by Francisco Jimenez.

  • $359 goal

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Hooray! This project is fully funded

Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

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 Project

My students were engaged in reading the book, Esperanza Rising, by Pam Ryan Munoz as it hit home when it comes to migrant farm workers. Therefore, to increase and expand their knowledge of the hardships of migrant labor, my interest is for my students to dive into the life of Francisco Jimenez as they read the book, The Circuit. In our community, the majority of my student's parents work in the fields; therefore, my students will have a book of their own as we read aloud the book and have a discussion of each chapter.

Ms. Mendez Navarro
Grades 6-8

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child (The Circuit, 1) • Amazon Business $16.53 15 $247.95

Materials cost

$247.95

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$22.69

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.72

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$304.36

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$53.71

Total project goal

$358.07

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$358.07

6 Donors

-$351.89

Donations toward project cost

-$304.36

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$47.53

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$6.18

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$0.00

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