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Mr. Thompson from Henderson, NV is requesting art supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Write Japanese Like an Emperor or Empress

Help me give my students these fude pens so they may learn the importance of correct stroke-order when writing Japanese Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji characters using a more traditional medium rather than just a pencil.

  • $560 goal

This project expired on July 6, 2024.

This project expired on July 6, 2024.

My Project

I love the opportunity as a Japanese teacher to introduce a language that is not always the most commonly taught here in the United States of America. The unique characters provide a mystique that many of my students find intriguing and that they wish to master to strengthen their interest with the island country. For my first year students, by the third day of the new school year, I begin teaching the three different writing-styles within the Japanese language: Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji. I explain the purpose of all three and why they each play an important role in the Japanese language.

Like many other languages over time, Japanese was originally written by using brushes dipped in ink to then write on paper.

As such, the characters were not just seen as formed words for the purpose of communication, by themselves became a type of art form, today known as Shodo, or translated, The Path of the Brush.

I hope that by providing my students with Fude Pens to practice from the earliest stages of learning the various characters that it will spark within them a greater desire to:

1-Write the characters using the correct stroke-order, as this is important to the overall look of a correctly written character.

2-Memorize the characters at a quicker and higher rate. I hope that as they want to write more to make their characters look better and more elegant, they will also be reinforcing their retention of recognizing and memorizing the individual characters.

If I am able to provide these pens that I hope will cause the students to want to improve the overall look of their writing, I will in fact also be helping my students build a foundation of the Japanese language for the years we have together in my classroom.

Mr. Thompson Foothill High School Grades 9-12

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Nearly all 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

205 students impacted

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Kuretake Bimoji Fude Pen - Fine • Blick Art Materials $3.66 60 $219.60
Kuretake Bimoji Fude Pen - Medium • Blick Art Materials $3.66 60 $219.60

Materials cost

$439.20

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.59

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$475.79

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$83.96

Total project goal

$559.75

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