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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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World History Students + Bill Bryson = History Love

My students need 10 Bill Bryson books, 5 copies of Seeing Further and 5 copies of Shakespeare, to hook them into more facts of world history.

  • $201 goal

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My Students

My world history students often do not see the point of reading anything but the textbook and a few primary source documents. I would like to not just change that, but to use a couple highly-engaging, readable Bill Bryson books to hook them into the endless nooks and crannies of the story of the world.

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 impactful parents, spouses, thinkers, and creators. Yet, for many of them, this small town is all they have ever known -- and there is both a beauty to that reality, and a limitation to it.

My Project

Imagine a world history classroom that had a shelf full of books on any topic that caught kids' fancy. What if, when a few students became intrigued by the Renaissance, they could walk two feet to the bookshelf in our classroom and pick up an engaging biography on Shakespeare's life? What if the same was possible when they became interested in learning more about the scientific revolution (Seeing Further)? In this kind of classroom, history would not need to stop with the lesson!

That is what you are 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 have fallen in love with history, help my students do the same. Thank you so much!

Mr. Stuart
Grades 9-12
  • Cedar Springs High School
  • Cedar Springs, MI
    • 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

    This project will reach 110 students.

    4 donors have given to this project.

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Seeing Further: The Story of Science, Discovery, and the Genius of the Royal Society • Amazon $15.33 5 $76.65
Shakespeare: The World as Stage (Eminent Lives) • Amazon $12.28 5 $61.40

Materials cost

$138.05

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.07

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$170.12

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$30.02

Total project goal

$200.14

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $200.14

3 Donors

-$186.02

Donations toward project cost

-$170.12

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$15.90

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$14.12

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 $0.00

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