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Bildungsroman from a Chicano/a Perspective

My students need 90 copies of Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya.

FULLY FUNDED! Mr. Jones's classroom raised $775

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Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

I want the required reading in my eighth-grade advanced English class to include a second example of a coming-of-age story, or Bildungsroman, to be coupled with The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger. I am also looking to broaden the range of perspectives and cultural backgrounds in the texts I assign. My school is an ethnically diverse middle school for the gifted and talented, located in an under-served neighborhood.

This current school year, we are reading John Steinbeck (Of Mice and Men), J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye), Frederick Douglass (Narrative of the Life of), Shakespeare (Hamlet), Elie Wiesel (Night), Daniel Keyes (Flowers for Algernon), Henry James (The Turn of the Screw), and William Golding (Lord of the Flies). While all are excellent titles, the writing of non-white authors is, sadly, not significantly represented. For these reasons, I want to introduce Bless Me, Ultima, by Rudolfo Anaya, as an alternative take on the classic coming-of-age story. My students are very interested in issues of race and power, and, any time the class discussion centers on these topics, they have a great deal to say. The conversation is always dynamic, sophisticated, and nuanced, with most sides represented (our student body is divided fairly evenly between white, black, Latino/a, and Asian students). I want to give them a more structured opportunity to grapple with these issues through reading Anaya's novel and comparing it critically to J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye.

I need ninety copies of "Bless Me, Ultima" so that each student can have his or her own copy. I think the experience of reading Anaya's novel will have a tremendous impact on my students. They are bright, articulate, and thoughtful, and they embrace anything I introduce to them (even Henry James!). They are, furthermore, highly interested in issues of ethnic and cultural identity, and I feel I am doing them a disservice by reading the coming-of-age story of a white protagonist (Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye) if I don't also provide an alternative perspective. I want the non-white students in my classroom to see their experiences represented in the literature we read.

Your generosity will ensure that my students understand the power they hold in their hands as gifted and talented students. They need to read non-white writers, and they need to develop their skills as critical readers of sophisticated literature. Finally, my students need to know that growing up in America is a multifaceted and varied experience, influenced by much more than we tend to realize. Bless Me, Ultima will bring them one step closer to understanding this fundamental truth.

Mr. Jones Middle School 224 Manh E School Arts & Academy Grades 6-8

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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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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Bless Me, Ultima • AKJ Books $6.10 90 $549.00

Materials cost

$549.00

Vendor shipping charges

 $54.90

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$13.73

Fulfillment labor & materials

$17.00

Total project cost

$635.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$139.39

Total project goal

$774.39

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $774.39

10 Donors

-$723.41

Donations toward project cost

-$635.00

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$88.41

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$50.98

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