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Ms. Hensley from White Bear Lake, MN is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Voices: Written and Spoken

Help me give my students exposure to BIPOC authors and best-selling titles, like Dear Martin, Between the World and Me, and I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter.

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My Students

As my students find and use their voices, they are inspired and encouraged by other young, contemporary voices representative of them. They are inquisitive, eager, and engaged with the current events taking shape around us. Yet, they are hungry for more!

My students in Minneapolis, Minnesota, have been in the heart of a momentous year in our nation and our city, and they are yearning for truth and justice.

Many have used their voices to advocate for change and justice here in our own community, and there are many causes that ignite their passions and empower them to see themselves as changemakers.

My Project

Students will engage and interact with these modern, contemporary texts about current events and real life issues they face on a day-to-day basis. They will connect various movements they read about with other historic examples and their own lives and experiences. Day to day throughout this book project unit, students will actively engage with one another to inform, inquire, and connect over shared experiences and as co-creators of knowledge.

Most importantly, all students will see themselves represented and reflected in the history curriculum as important, valued, and heard.

All students will be empowered to use their own voice to make change.

Ms. Hensley White Bear Lake High School North Grades 9-12

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More than a third 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

300 students impacted 3donors

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Between the World and Me • Amazon Business $16.60 5 $83.00
Dear Justyce • AKJ Education $13.86 5 $69.30
The Book of Unknown Americans • Amazon Business $13.49 5 $67.45
The Hate U Give • AKJ Education $11.50 5 $57.50
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter • AKJ Education $8.75 5 $43.75
Dear Martin • AKJ Education $7.29 5 $36.45
Yo no soy tu perfecta hija mexicana (Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $6.49 5 $32.45

Materials cost

$389.90

Vendor shipping charges

 $6.00

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.85

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$431.75

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$76.19

Total project goal

$507.94

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $507.94

2 Donors

-$258.96

Donations toward project cost

-$220.12

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$38.84

match offer

-$248.98

Match offer toward project cost

-$211.63

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$37.35

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