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The Land and the Water Lesson PlanThe Land and the Water Lesson Plan
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The Land and the Water

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Third graders read "The Land and the Water," a fictional short story and an article about John F. Kennedy, Jr. and compare and contrast fictional tragedy to a non-fiction tragedy. They fill out a Venn diagram and write an essay using their diagrams for notes.

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fiction, nonfiction, tragedies

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fiction, non-fiction, tragedy, english language arts

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