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Ms. Silinsh from New York, NY is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Ms. Silinsh's classroom raised $509

Think 7th graders Can Write a Novel? Yes, they Can!

My students need a set (15) of novel writing handbooks and workbooks in order to complete their own novels.

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Ms. Silinsh The Mott Hall School
New York, NY Grades 6-8

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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

They say that the pen is mightier than the sword. In this case, the pen is mightier than television and video games. I have a remarkable group of students who would rather make up their own worlds than watch those that others have already created.

I teach in one of the most poverty-stricken areas of New York.

My students are gifted, and many have shown the extra initiative required to write their own full-length novels. After school hours, they sit and write, read fellow students' drafts, and give positive comments and feedback. They just need the additional structure that these novel-writing workbooks will provide.

My Project

I cannot calculate the impact of this donation, other than to say, imagine publishing your own book at 12! If anyone can achieve this, it's one of my brilliant students. Writing has been a therapeutic and transforming force in their lives. Help them take their stories to the next level with these editing and revising workbooks.

The confidence and growth I have seen through my novel-writing workshop has been awe-inspiring.

Rest assured that a donation to this project will immediately result in improving the academic lives of my students. Who knows...maybe some of them will be on a bestsellers list some day!

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

More than half of students from low‑income households

75 students impacted 6 donors
Ms. Silinsh The Mott Hall School Grades 6-8

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

New York, NY View local requests

More than half 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

75 students impacted 6donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Writing the Breakout Novel Donald Maass, Foreword by Anne Perry • AKJ BOOKS $11.99 15 $179.85
Writing the Breakout Novel Workbook Donald Maass • AKJ BOOKS $14.10 15 $211.50

Materials cost

$391.35

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.87

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$432.22

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$76.27

Total project goal

$508.49

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $508.49

4 Donors

-$250.72

Donations toward project cost

-$216.11

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$34.61

match offer

-$254.25

Match offer toward project cost

-$216.11

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$38.14

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$3.53

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 $0.00

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