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Castle in the Sun

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Students use the internet to find pictures of castles throughout Europe. After reading stories about castles, they use recycled boxes to build their own. To end the activity, they write their own script and act it out in front of their classmates.

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imagination, castles

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castle, imagination, Scripts, english language arts
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4th - 6th
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English Language Arts
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