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Ms. Hands from Philadelphia, PA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Read To Live

My students need 25 books copies of "The Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream", along with an audio copy and library binding copy.

  • $395 goal

This project expired on October 31, 2010.

This project expired on October 31, 2010.

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Ms. Hands People for People Charter School
Philadelphia, PA Grades 3-5

My Students

"The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think." Bill Beattie, highlights a very powerful lesson as it relates to students.Using texts that draw connections between school and real life enables students to activate a more meaningful level of creative brain power

In urban Pennsylvania, my students very rarely get opportunities to see the long-term value of education in their lives.

Battling poverty, broken families, and overall challenging living conditions, my students are faced with many obstacles before they even come to school in the morning. In the area, public schools typically don't have enough money to provide materials that better engage students in the learning process. Our budget is enough to cover the mandated basil series and math texts. Students can be withdrawn from their learning which creates a troubling epidemic considering their young ages (8-11).

My Project

The Pact is a text that vividly details the journey of 3 young men from urban America and their promise to become everything their economical and familial situations contrasted-successfully educated men. This text is crucial in inspiring my students to take drastic measures as it relates to their current feelings about education. Having an opportunity to delve into such a relevant text will motivate my students to take steps in their own lives to ensure a better future for themselves and their families. The Pact shows that it can be done; it has been done. Who my students are today does not have to dictate who they become. Drawing lessons from such a meaningful text, can provide them with the self-confidence, the self-awareness to make better decisions now to impact their future.

Having an opportunity to read this text, The Pact, extends far beyond the four walls of my classroom.

The inspiration this meaningful journey of the main characters can provide is a lesson that students can take with them throughout life. As they begin to feel defeated, they can reassure themselves, it can be done. It has been done. You can play an integral role in the inspiration of my students by providing them with this donation.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Nearly all students from low‑income households

45 students impacted
Ms. Hands People for People Charter School Grades 3-5

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Philadelphia, PA View local requests

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

45 students impacted

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, Lisa Frazier Page, Rameck Hunt • Barnes and Noble $10.26 25 $256.50
Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream George Jenkins, Sampson Davis, Rameck Hunt • Barnes and Noble $26.76 1 $26.76
The Pact: Three Young Men Make A Promise And Fulfill A Dream (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, Rameck Hunt • Barnes and Noble $20.48 1 $20.48

Materials cost

$303.74

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.56

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$343.30

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$51.30

Total project goal

$394.60

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