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A Voyage to West Africa: The Gambia Lesson PlanA Voyage to West Africa: The Gambia Lesson Plan
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A Voyage to West Africa: The Gambia

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Fourth graders illustrate and provide a caption for a picture that compares and contrasts the United States to Gambia. They questions about similarities and differences that they saw between the book, Boundless Grace, Gambia and the United States.

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4th
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Social Studies & History
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