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Mr. Holmes from Alameda, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Read & Decolonize! Diverse Books for Diverse Students

Help me give my students books from culturally diverse writers to broaden their perspectives and see themselves in the literature they read.

FULLY FUNDED! Mr. Holmes's classroom raised $1,034

This project is fully funded

My Students

Expectations are high for students the moment they arrive. My students want to meet those challenges. My students trust that I will guide them through a complex and difficult world of letters.

My students are diverse across many aspects of their identity.

My classroom is representative of the unique and progressive qualities of the San Francisco Bay Area. Students have the opportunity for a broader, more holistic perspective of the world by bringing their various experiences and backgrounds with them.

My Project

Students in my English class are responsible for reading in groups. They select their own books for reading based on a given theme (the Hero's Journey, Social Justice Issues, etc.). These groups determine their own schedules and pace. They meet once a week to discuss what they've read with their group members and perform an in-depth analysis. The goal is to teach critical thinking and literary analysis skills while simultaneously nourishing their freedom and independence in their own learning. Students learn best when they learn communally - when they think together they think deeper when they connect to each other their perspectives broaden, when they engage passionately with each other they become lifelong learners. Funding this project will help me to build a classroom library full of high-interest literature, non-fiction, and graphic novels for reading groups.

“[The dominant culture] has tried to keep us all afraid, to make us choose safety instead of risk, sameness instead of diversity: Moving through that fear, finding out what connects us, revelling in our differences; this is the process that brings us closer, that gives us a world of shared values, of meaningful community," says Bell Hooks in her book Teaching Community.

Most books students read in high school are written by privileged writers, members of the dominant communities of Western culture. The texts selected for this project seek to decenter that power and refocus students on less often read writers: women, LGBTQ+, non-white, non-Western.

Students will have the opportunity to read from diverse literature. Challenge themselves, discuss their different perspectives, make connections between their lives, and develop a greater learning community.

Mr. Holmes Alameda High School Grades 9-12 Alameda, CA View local requests

More than a third 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
Parable of the Talents (Parable, 2) • Amazon Business $14.29 8 $114.32
Parable of the Sower (Parable, 1) • Amazon Business $13.28 8 $106.24
Parable of the Sower:  A Graphic Novel Adaptation: A Graphic Novel Adaptation • Amazon Business $22.49 4 $89.96
Kindred • Amazon Business $10.49 8 $83.92
Binti (Binti, 1) • Amazon Business $9.44 8 $75.52
Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation • Amazon Business $16.99 4 $67.96
Darius the Great Is Not Okay • Amazon Business $9.99 4 $39.96
Patron Saints of Nothing • Amazon Business $9.39 4 $37.56
The Trouble Begins: A Box of Unfortunate Events, Books 1-3 (The Bad Beginning; The Reptile Room; The Wide Window) • Amazon Business $29.72 1 $29.72
Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass • Amazon Business $7.99 2 $15.98
Buddha, Vol. 1: Kapilavastu • Amazon Business $14.95 1 $14.95
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Vol. 6 (Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind) • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Vol. 1 • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Vol. 7 (Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind) • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Vol. 5 (Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind) • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Vol. 4 (Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind) • Amazon Business $11.72 1 $11.72
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Vol. 2 (Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind) • Amazon Business $11.33 1 $11.33
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Vol. 3 (Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind) • Amazon Business $10.65 1 $10.65
A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet) • Amazon Business $5.35 1 $5.35

Materials cost

$767.10

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $70.19

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.51

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$878.80

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$155.08

Total project goal

$1,033.88

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,033.88

7 Donors

-$1,031.24

Donations toward project cost

-$878.80

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$152.44

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$2.64

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