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Mrs. Ridenour from Port Allen, LA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Seen, Heard, Represented, and Inspired by Literature

Help me give my students access to literature that feature characters and subjects that are more representative of who they are to promote our school wide push to increase literacy growth among our students.

  • $848 goal

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Celebrate Black Teachers and Students

This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.

My Project

I love my school. I love my students. I love it all so much that I have spent the majority of my 20+ years giving back to the place that gave me the passion to pursue education, and motivate/mentor the youth to chase after their goals in life. I want to encourage our students to improve their literacy skills and experience success with our school wide initiative to improve student vocabulary and reading comprehension. The problem?

Our students want to read literature with characters who are more representative of who they are.

Most of our students are participating in our literacy push; however, the largest request I get from students is that they would love to have access to more literature they can relate to as young black youth today. Teaching in a relatively small school where funding is based on enrollment numbers, I am limited in the items I can purchase to make this wish come true.

The goal for this project is to create a special section within our library to highlight authors and literature more representative of my students and their culture. Our students are making great gains in improving their literacy through this school wide initiative, and exposing them to fiction and non-fiction that makes them feel seen and heard will, hopefully, make even greater strides in closing gaps they face in vocabulary, Lexile, reading comprehension, and access to quality literature.

Mrs. Ridenour
Grades 9-12

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
A Promised Land (hardcover) • MahoganyBooks $45.00 1 $45.00
March (Trilogy Slipcase Set) (paperback book set) • MahoganyBooks $44.99 1 $44.99
3 Book Set - Graphic Novels: New Kid, Class Act, School Trip (paperback graphic novels) • MahoganyBooks $36.87 1 $36.87
The Light We Carry (hardcover) • MahoganyBooks $29.25 1 $29.25
Jason Reynolds & Track Series Collection (paperback box set) • MahoganyBooks $28.79 1 $28.79
The Crossover Series 3-Book Box Set: The Crossover, Booked, Rebound (paperback book set) • MahoganyBooks $25.19 1 $25.19
The Weary Blues (hardcover) • MahoganyBooks $24.26 1 $24.26
Historically Black: American Icons Who Attended HBCUs (hardcover) • MahoganyBooks $23.40 1 $23.40
The Kaepernick Effect: Taking a Knee, Changing the World (hardcover) • MahoganyBooks $23.39 1 $23.39
Ain't Burned All the Bright (hardcover graphic novel) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $20.00 1 $20.00
Long Way Down: The Graphic Novel (hardcover) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $19.00 1 $19.00
Between the World and Me (hardcover) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $18.00 1 $18.00
Concrete Rose (hardcover) • MahoganyBooks $17.99 1 $17.99
Blackout (hardcover) • MahoganyBooks $17.99 1 $17.99
Punching the Air (hardcover) • MahoganyBooks $17.99 1 $17.99
We Are All So Good at Smiling (hardcover) • MahoganyBooks $17.09 1 $17.09
Chaos Theory (hardcover) • MahoganyBooks $17.09 1 $17.09
Dear Justyce (hardcover) • MahoganyBooks $17.09 1 $17.09
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning (hardcover) • MahoganyBooks $17.09 1 $17.09
Clap When You Land (hardcover) • MahoganyBooks $17.09 1 $17.09
The Nickel Boys (paperback) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $16.00 1 $16.00
Letters to a Young Brother: MANifest Your Destiny (paperback) • MahoganyBooks $14.40 1 $14.40
Brown Girl Dreaming (paperback) • MahoganyBooks $9.89 1 $9.89
Just Mercy (Adapted for Young Adults): A True Story of the Fight for Justice (paperback) • MahoganyBooks $9.89 1 $9.89
Odd One Out (paperback) • MahoganyBooks $9.89 1 $9.89
The Voting Booth (paperback) • MahoganyBooks $8.99 1 $8.99
Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks (paperback) • MahoganyBooks $8.09 1 $8.09
Ghost Boys (paperback) • MahoganyBooks $7.19 1 $7.19
Black Brother, Black Brother (paperback) • MahoganyBooks $7.19 1 $7.19
Clean Getaway (paperback) • MahoganyBooks $7.19 1 $7.19

Materials cost

$576.28

Vendor shipping charges

 $55.33

Sales tax

 $50.42

3rd party payment processing fee

$8.64

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$720.67

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$127.18

Total project goal

$847.85

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $847.85

6 Donors

-$410.69

Donations toward project cost

-$371.59

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$39.10

Matching donations from our partners

-$410.68

Match offers toward project cost

-$349.08

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$61.60

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$26.47

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