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Ms. Sorgenfrei from Tacoma, WA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Rich, Complex Texts for Future Leaders

Help me give my students rich complex texts to adventure and learn from such as Magic Tree House book set or the text The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist.

  • $1,141 goal

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My Students

I have a hardworking, engaged group of twenty-five, fourth grade, rock star learners! They each uniquely contribute to our classroom and school community in such positive ways. My students come from diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds, a majority are considered low-income, as well as a high percentage of English Language Learners.

My students are high energy readers, writers, mathematicians and crazy awesome future world leaders and innovators!

Our school and district culture places a large emphasis on teaching to the whole child, meeting students needs in all ways, so that they can be socially, emotionally and academically prepared for anything they can dream of for the future lives, including college and vocational opportunities.

My Project

Texts such as The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist and Roald Dahl book sets provide the classroom with a diverse, relevant and engaging books and integration of content. These titles touch on current social issues, historical movements, social/emotional learning and general student interest. Students need to be exposed to complex texts at or above grade level that speak to current issues they face daily and are asked to discourse and write about.

Making meaningful connections and having a shared text to refer to in class makes discussion rich with high impact.

Texts with rich academic and content driven vocabulary support students in building their knowledge base around words and meaning within context.

Thank you for supporting our classroom and these amazing, driven, hard working students.

Ms. Sorgenfrei
Grades 3-5

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Magic Tree House Merlin Missions #1-25 Boxed Set (Magic Tree House (R) Merlin Mission) • Amazon Business $67.61 1 $67.61
Roald Dahl 15-Book Boxed Set-PROP-RMS • Amazon Business $44.99 1 $44.99
A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin (Schneider Family Book Awards - Young Children's Book Winner) • Amazon Business $14.39 2 $28.78
One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia (Millbrook Picture Books) • Amazon Business $19.99 1 $19.99
Trickster: Native American Tales, A Graphic Collection • Amazon Business $19.98 1 $19.98
Love and Roast Chicken: A Trickster Tale from the Andes Mountains • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
The Day You Begin • Amazon Business $17.09 1 $17.09
Iqbal and His Ingenious Idea: How a Science Project Helps One Family and the Planet (CitizenKid) • Amazon Business $17.09 1 $17.09
Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music • Amazon Business $16.84 1 $16.84
The Girl With a Mind for Math: The Story of Raye Montague (Amazing Scientists) • Amazon Business $16.19 1 $16.19
Maybe Something Beautiful: How Art Transformed a Neighborhood • Amazon Business $16.14 1 $16.14
Nadia: The Girl Who Couldn’t Sit Still • Amazon Business $16.07 1 $16.07
Pig-Boy: A Trickster Tale from Hawai'i • Amazon Business $16.00 1 $16.00
Hana Hashimoto, Sixth Violin • Amazon Business $15.90 1 $15.90
Dazzle Ships: World War I and the Art of Confusion • Amazon Business $15.85 1 $15.85
Interstellar Cinderella • Amazon Business $15.29 1 $15.29
The Doctor with an Eye for Eyes: The Story of Dr. Patricia Bath (Amazing Scientists) • Amazon Business $15.20 1 $15.20
Sonia Sotomayor: A Judge Grows in the Bronx / La juez que crecio en el Bronx (Spanish and English Edition) • Amazon Business $14.88 1 $14.88
Bob The Artist: Dominoes • Amazon Business $14.54 1 $14.54
I Walk with Vanessa: A Story About a Simple Act of Kindness • Amazon Business $14.49 1 $14.49
Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras (Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal (Awards)) • Amazon Business $14.44 1 $14.44
A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel • Amazon Business $13.99 1 $13.99
The Librarian of Auschwitz • Amazon Business $13.99 1 $13.99
The Most Magnificent Thing • Amazon Business $13.76 1 $13.76
The Wild Robot • Amazon Business $13.59 1 $13.59
Stolen Words • Amazon Business $13.56 1 $13.56
Pax • Amazon Business $12.88 1 $12.88
Turning Pages: My Life Story • Amazon Business $12.75 1 $12.75
Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13 • Amazon Business $12.75 1 $12.75
Dreamers • Amazon Business $12.65 1 $12.65
I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark • Amazon Business $12.59 1 $12.59
Emmanuel's Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah • Amazon Business $12.59 1 $12.59
The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist • Amazon Business $12.49 1 $12.49
Go Show the World: A Celebration of Indigenous Heroes • Amazon Business $12.32 1 $12.32
The Girl Who Thought in Pictures: The Story of Dr. Temple Grandin (Amazing Scientists) • Amazon Business $12.23 1 $12.23
Last Stop on Market Street • Amazon Business $12.19 1 $12.19
Hello, Universe • Amazon Business $11.89 1 $11.89
Wishtree • Amazon Business $10.98 1 $10.98
Alaska's Snow White and Her Seven Sled Dogs (PAWS IV) • Amazon Business $10.74 1 $10.74
Bob the Artist • Amazon Business $10.48 1 $10.48
The Salmon Princess: An Alaska Cinderella Story (PAWS IV) • Amazon Business $10.19 1 $10.19
Swatch: The Girl Who Loved Color • Amazon Business $9.98 1 $9.98
Domítíla: A Cinderella Tale from the Mexican Tradition • Amazon Business $9.95 1 $9.95
Jouanah: A Hmong Cinderella • Amazon Business $9.95 1 $9.95
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale (Picture Puffin) • Amazon Business $9.50 1 $9.50
Cendrillon: A Caribbean Cinderella • Amazon Business $8.78 1 $8.78
Adelita • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
The Golden Sandal: A Middle Eastern Cinderella Story • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
The Korean Cinderella (Trophy Picture Books (Paperback)) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Jabutí the Tortoise: A Trickster Tale from the Amazon • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Smoky Mountain Rose: An Appalachian Cinderella (Picture Puffins) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Monkey: A Trickster Tale from India • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Yeh-Shen: A Cinderella Story from China • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Anansi and the Magic Stick (Anansi the Trickster) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Sootface • Amazon Business $7.67 1 $7.67
Cinderella Skeleton • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Bigfoot Cinderrrrrella (Picture Puffins) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
The Irish Cinderlad (Trophy Picture Books (Paperback)) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
The Egyptian Cinderella • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
The Persian Cinderella • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Salt in His Shoes: Michael Jordan in Pursuit of a Dream • Amazon Business $6.98 1 $6.98
Prince Cinders • Amazon Business $6.56 1 $6.56

Materials cost

$852.20

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$74.57

3rd party payment processing fee

$12.78

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$969.55

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$171.10

Total project goal

$1,140.65

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$1,140.65

4 Donors

-$972.05

Donations toward project cost

-$952.55

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$19.50

match offer

-$20.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$17.00

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$3.00

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$148.60

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

$0.00

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