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Mr. Stuart from Cedar Springs, MI is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Will Durant Books Will Make My Students Achieve!

My students need three copies each of Will Durant's The Story of Philosophy, The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time, and The Lessons of History.

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My Students

World history is too often seen as "one darn thing after another" from a stale old textbook. Yet lovers of history know that this is the furthest thing from the truth. I want to help my freshmen students see the beautiful mosaic of stories that comprise world history.

My kids are awesome and I love them.

We live in a small town, and yet my students are future world-shapers. I believe they can be the kinds of teens who grow up into parents, spouses, thinkers, and creators who impacted others. Yet, for many of them, this small town is all they've ever known -- and there's both a beauty to that reality and a limitation to it.

My Project

Imagine a world history classroom that had shelves full of books on any topic that caught a student's fancy. What if when a few students became intrigued by learning world history through the lens of philosophy or ideas, they had multiple copies of the best books on this topic to draw from our classroom library? I could point them back to that section of my library, quickly book talk the titles on WWI that I had available for them, and send them off with reading experiences sure to add reality and sobriety to their impressions of this topic.

That's what you're providing with this project -- a chance to dig deeper into history; a chance to do what few history students get to do in this country: explore deeply and richly the many stories that the textbooks cannot contain.

If you've fallen in love with history, help my students do the same with three copies each of Will Durant's The Story of Philosophy, The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time, and The Lessons of History. Thank you so much!

Mr. Stuart Cedar Springs High School Grades 9-12

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time • Amazon Business $16.36 3 $49.08
The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers • Amazon Business $8.99 3 $26.97
The Lessons of History • Amazon Business $8.48 3 $25.44

Materials cost

$101.49

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.52

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$133.01

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$23.47

Total project goal

$156.48

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $156.48

2 Donors

-$127.07

Donations toward project cost

-$111.76

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$15.31

match offer

-$25.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$21.25

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$3.75

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$4.41

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 $0.00

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