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Ms. Rangel from Roxbury, MA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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The Brief Wondrous Lives of High School Students

My students need 40 copies of Junot Diaz's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel 'The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao' to give them experience with contemporary world literature.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Rangel's classroom raised $520

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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.

My Students

In my struggle to create an AP Literature curriculum that wasn't quite so "dead white guy" but still presented challenging material of literary merit, I came across Diaz's novel. It's the story of a Dominican family that would appeal to my students, from a talented, accessible writer.

A large percentage of my kids are Dominican; others are Cape Verdean, Haitian, and Somalian; many more are Boston-born.

All are urban minority students who can find something to identify with in Diaz's chronicle of Oscar's family, from his grandfather's struggles during the Trujillo regime (which some of their parents and grandparents lived through), to his sister's rebelling against their traditional mother, to the teenage Oscar's achingly familiar quest to find a girlfriend. My students have all taken on the challenge of AP-level reading and writing, perhaps expecting to see nothing but variations on Shakespeare. As atypical AP students and my school's very first AP Literature class, they're going to break their backs all year to expand their literary repertoire and refine their reading and writing skills. I want to reward that hard work with a novel they'll love that's both written in a powerful, compelling, contemporary voice and of undisputed literary merit.

My Project

Reading 'Oscar Wao' in the context of their AP Literature class will teach my kids an important lesson that's escaped them for most of high school: fantastically written, beloved, award-winning literature can be about people just like them, written by people who've been where they are, and sit on a shelf with the literary greats. I want them to see themselves and the lives they lead as material for an epic tale like Oscar's. They'll also realize that books that they adore can and should be read with the careful, discerning eye they'll be applying to Shakespeare & all his friends. The AP Literature exam is intimidating to say the least, and I want my kids to know that they don't have to be masters of the canon to be able to respond thoughtfully, analytically, and personally to literature. 'Oscar Wao' will give them that confidence, and hopefully open their eyes to other contemporary authors.

Though my school can't afford to purchase a class set of 'Oscar,' I'll keep these copies, and our inaugural AP class will be just the first in a series of bright, motivated, success-bound urban kids who will benefit from Oscar's funny, touching story.

Ms. Rangel Madison Park Technical Vocational High School Grades 9-12

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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
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Diaz • Barnes and Noble $10.26 40 $410.40

Materials cost

$410.40

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.16

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$451.56

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$67.47

Total project goal

$519.03

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $519.03

7 Donors

-$104.79

Donations toward project cost

-$93.09

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$11.70

match offer

-$412.03

Match offer toward project cost

-$358.47

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$53.56

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$2.21

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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