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Dr. O'Wren from San Jose CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

(Not) Reading Waiting for the Barbarians in East San Jose

Help me give my students a chance to read a great book whose postcolonial themes resonate consequentially not only in the historical past, but in the present and future, as well.

  • $370 goal

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My Students

My students are primarily Latinx and Asian American children of immigrants in a high-need, title I high school in east San Jose. They attend a program within the school designed to prepare them for success as first-generation college students.

Although they face daunting cultural and linguistic barriers as children of immigrants and prospective first generation college students, the kids I teach are vibrant, engaged, and open learners alive to the challenges of the future, and full of dreams of success.

My Project

My district doesn't make Waiting for the Barbarians available to students, but I believe it's an essential work for our times and would provide my students with critical knowledge of key cultural discourses reflecting on obviously still-urgent questions about postcolonialism, race, and "others." Reading the text will enable students to engage imaginatively through Coetzee's masterpiece in longstanding debates about race, colonialism, imperialism, war, and, violence, and to think critically, historically, and comparatively--about how and why this text has and continues to provoke, in the best sense, its readers.

The text will not only be an occasion for discussions about race, colonialism, state-sanctioned and -administered violence, and central themes in history and culture, but also for sound training in close analysis and literary criticism.

Dr. O'Wren
Grades 9-12

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Waiting for the Barbarians: A Novel (Penguin Ink) • Amazon Business $12.85 20 $257.00

Materials cost

$257.00

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $23.52

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.86

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$314.38

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$55.48

Total project goal

$369.86

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $369.86

1 Donor

-$302.00

Donations toward project cost

-$264.50

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$37.50

match offer

-$58.68

Match offer toward project cost

-$49.88

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$8.80

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$9.18

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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