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Ms. Pierre from New York, NY is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Time Travel to the Past

My students need a class set of the award-winning historical fiction novel Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson to understand the role enslaved people and New York City played in the American Revolution.

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My Students

My 7th grade Social Studies classroom is a place of challenge, debate, and hard questions with no easy answers. Students engage with historical material, historical figures, other students, and their teachers to try to answer tough historical questions. We look to the past to understand our present and our future.

Our school population is incredibly diverse.

Economic, racial, and cultural differences end up becoming sources of strength as students interact and engage with each other in respectful and meaningful ways.

My Project

We will read the young adult novel "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson in order to explore history in a new and different way than we have previously. This is an impeccably researched novel about two topics that are central to the 7th grade Social Studies curriculum: slavery and the American Revolution. The novel also has the added bonus of being set in our own hometown, New York City, so students will gain a bit of local history along the way!

Well-written historical fiction is a compelling way to bring history to life for students.

This time period can be difficult for some students to connect with because there no photographs or videos to show them what it was like to live through it. Laurie Halse Anderson uses accurate, true details to make this historical era vivid and reachable.

Ms. Pierre Mott Hall II M 862 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.

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More than half of 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

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Chains (The Seeds of America Trilogy) • Amazon Business $4.99 30 $149.70

Materials cost

$149.70

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.25

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$181.95

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$32.11

Total project goal

$214.06

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $214.06

1 Donor

-$214.06

Donations toward project cost

-$181.95

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$32.11

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