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Mrs. O'Shea from Chicago, IL is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Spring into Reading

Help me give my students books that will engage and encourage them to read.

  • $273 goal

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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 Students

Most of my students are from low socioeconomic backgrounds, and they are a mixture of Hispanic and African American students. They are also students who have special needs.

Parents do their best to provide the bare essentials that their kids need throughout the school year, but many times that is all that they can give them.

Many of the families have at least four kids in the school. It is a lot to ask a family to purchase materials when some of them cannot pay their utility bills. Although the parents and the school community do their best to provide for the children, with budget cuts, it is getting harder to provide them with tools for learning.

My Project

In the spring students will learn about the 20th century in Social Studies. They will also choose novels to read that focus on a subject from that time period. We are requesting books that will engage and encourage them to read.

Our class library is lacking books that will interest and engage my students into reading for enjoyment about events that occurred in the 20th century.

Students will create timelines about the events they are reading. They will also create journal writings as if they to are experiencing the event themselves. Students will create titles for each chapter they read from their novels that demonstrates their understanding and importance of the main events.

Mrs. O'Shea Dawes Elementary School Grades 6-8

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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.

More about Mrs. O'Shea

Chicago, IL 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

120 students impacted 2donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation (Pantheon Graphic Library) • Amazon Business $17.97 2 $35.94
They Called Us Enemy • Amazon Business $15.59 2 $31.18
Survival in the Storm: The Dust Bowl Diary of Grace Edwards, Dalhart, Texas 1935 (Dear America Series) • Amazon Business $25.90 1 $25.90
My Secret War: The World War II Diary of Madeline Beck, Long Island, New York 1941 (Dear America Series) • Amazon Business $21.50 1 $21.50
The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins: A World War II Soldier Normandy France, 1944 • Amazon Business $16.20 1 $16.20
Great Battles for Boys: World War I • Amazon Business $13.99 1 $13.99
Allies • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
Projekt 1065: A Novel of World War II • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Refugee • Amazon Business $9.74 1 $9.74
The Brooklyn Nine • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
What Was the Berlin Wall? • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99

Materials cost

$190.41

Vendor shipping charges

 $8.74

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.86

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$232.01

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$40.94

Total project goal

$272.95

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $272.95

1 Donor

-$136.48

Donations toward project cost

-$116.01

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$20.47

match offer

-$136.47

Match offer toward project cost

-$116.00

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$20.47

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 $0.00

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