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A Message in a Bottle

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Students create an imaginary tale of travel and adventure. They explain who they are, where they were going when they got stranded, where they left from, and how they were traveling. They place their stories in bottles and set them afloat.

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Narrative Writing, world travel, english language arts
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6th - 8th
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English Language Arts
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