To write a biography (Part 1)

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Key learning points.

  • In this lesson, we will write their first three paragraphs of their biography of Harriet Tubman. Harriet Tubman led hundreds of enslaved people to freedom along the route of the Underground Railroad.

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Adult supervision suggested

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