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Ms. Nanda from Brooklyn, NY is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Understanding A Long Walk to Water: Independent Reading

Help me give my students books to help supplement our whole class text. The more kids read, the better readers they become!

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My Project

We are reading A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park in 7th grade. This is a heavy book that touches on topics such as war, separation from family, what it takes to survive, and hope.

In order for students to best understand the experiences characters go through, it is important to read and gather information from other sources.

This not only builds understanding, but also empathy, respect, and help them to develop and strengthen their own capacity for perseverance.

Students will be reading these books independently to help supplement their understanding of our class novel. They will draw out similarities and differences between the two stories, and gather more evidence of what it takes to be a survivor.

Ms. Nanda Urban Assembly Unison School Grades 6-8

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Brooklyn, NY View local requests

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

80 students impacted 2donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Now Is the Time for Running • Amazon Business $6.99 10 $69.90
Long Way Gone • Amazon Business $7.72 9 $69.48
The Red Pencil • Amazon Business $6.89 10 $68.90
Home of the Brave • Amazon Business $7.64 7 $53.48
The Good Braider • Amazon Business $9.99 5 $49.95

Materials cost

$311.71

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.68

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$346.39

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$61.13

Total project goal

$407.52

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $407.52

2 Donors

-$407.52

Donations toward project cost

-$346.39

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$61.13

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 $0.00

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