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

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To Pass or Not to Pass: Black in America

Help me give my students this wonderful novel which relates to their lived experiences while educating them on the nuances of race, identity, and the critical choices we make and how they impact us and future generations.

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Ms. Abramyan has another project! Donate to Great Use of Tech! to help her classroom.

$397 - complete this project and be a hero

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 Project

When I first read The Vanishing Half, I was instantly reminded of the seminal novella “Passing” by Nella Larsen. I knew immediately that I wanted to pair The Vanihing Half with the movie based on Larsen’s “Passing” to offer a deeper reading of race in America and to highlight the importance of the choices we make and how they impact future generations, while also shaping our lives.

My hope with this project is to allow my students space to question their own relationship to race, and invite them to dig deeper into their ancestral history to help them bridge the space between themselves and those who came before them, to give them the tools with which to query their lived experiences today as they were shaped and put in motion by those who came before them.

In an educational system which is still lacking in options for reading materials that our students will mostly benefit from, and which does not solely rely on the assumed ‘classics,’ I have been on a mission to bring the most recent, more contemporary works of literature by people of color, and women, and other marginalized writers whose works are readily embraced by my students, all of who are eager for stories that relate to them, celebrate them, and offer a glimpse into their pasts.

Ms. Abramyan High School of Fashion Industries Grades 9-12

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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More than three‑quarters 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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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Vanishing Half: A GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel) • Amazon Business $9.79 70 $685.30

Materials cost

$685.30

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$10.28

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$725.58

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$128.04

Total project goal

$853.62

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $853.62

3 Donors

-$106.00

Donations toward project cost

-$90.10

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$15.90

match offer

-$747.62

Match offer toward project cost

-$635.48

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$112.14

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