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Mr. Wilf from Woodland Hls., CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Books For My High School English Class

My students need access to books beyond the assigned textbook. These two sets of books including "Angels in America," and "The Things They Carried" will offer important and original themes and ideas.

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My Students

My job is to make my students think critically about the world and about themselves. However I need books to help me do that. I need books that go beyond the safe, traditional, and not so diverse assigned literature textbook. Reading O'Brien and Kushner will help me do that.

I teach at a large urban high school In Los Angeles.

My students are socio-economically and ethnically diverse as well as diverse in ability and intellectual curiosity. That makes my job both interesting and challenging and using a Socratic classroom as I do, makes each class unpredictable and from an existential point of view "free." I am a taskmaster when it comes to reading and writing. Students must write about what we read and discuss before we go on to the next book or project. We start with the Greeks and are working our way to contemporary writers and thinkers. I like to think of my classroom as a history of Western thought.

My Project

We will write, discuss, and even perform some of the texts, "Angels in America" and "The Things They Carried." By the end of the unit, students will be able to write for two whole class periods (without notes) on the given question conceding the text. In addition, each student will present an independent research project to the rest of the class related to the book. For example, in our discussion of Doctorow's RAGTIME, projects were presented on feminism, trade unions, immigration, Ellis Island, trusts, minstrel shows, anarchism, to name just a few. This is research they do on their own which requires sufficient mastery of the subject to present to the class without notes.

A literature anthology given to students in a public classroom presents texts that are not only edited to eliminate the troubling and the ambiguous, but are prejudicial in their very selection.

I can xerox the Whitman and Dickinson poems that have been left out but then we get to the next unit and again the question arises what needs to be added. A teacher needs texts that go beyond the textbook and so year by year I am building my classroom library to offer those texts.

Mr. Wilf W.H. Taft Charter High School Grades 9-12

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At this school, more than 50% of students are Black, Latino, and/or Native American, and more than 50% come from low-income households. Learn how your donation to this school supports a more equitable education.

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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
Angels in America - • AKJ Books $12.37 45 $556.65
The Things They Carried • AKJ Books $10.14 45 $456.30

Materials cost

$1,012.95

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $92.68

3rd party payment processing fee

$15.19

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,150.82

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$203.09

Total project goal

$1,353.91

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,353.91

6 Donors

-$1,293.49

Donations toward project cost

-$1,103.22

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$190.27

match offer

-$56.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$47.60

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$8.40

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$4.42

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 $0.00

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