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Ms. Steer from South Boston, MA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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The Power of Stories

Help me give my students 50 copies of Abina and the Important Men.

  • $666 goal

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My Students

My students are incredibly curious about the world around them. There are five different languages spoken as a variety of different cultures are represented in the classroom. These differences make us create a wonderfully diverse learning environment.

As a community we strive to learn from our mistakes in order to make the world a better place.

These students remind me every day why I became a teacher. They have open hearts, and growing minds that are eager and ready to understand the world.

My Project

As a history teacher, I strive to teach my students stories that bring light to often forgotten histories. This graphic novel highlights the strength of Abina, a wrongly enslaved woman in West Africa who went to court to protest her enslavement. This book includes not only a graphic novel but the court transcript and a rich history of slavery in West Africa. It highlights the fact that while something can be illegal, it takes much more to end wrongful systems.

I want my students to understand that while slavery did exist it was always protested by those who were forced to work against their will.

Ms. Steer
Grades 6-8

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Abina and the Important Men • Oxford University Press $15.96 30 $478.80

Materials cost

$478.80

Vendor shipping charges

 $50.00

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.18

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$565.98

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$99.88

Total project goal

$665.86

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $665.86

12 Donors

-$585.23

Donations toward project cost

-$519.23

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$66.00

match offer

-$55.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$46.75

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$8.25

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$25.63

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 $0.00

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