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Here is a copy of the K-4 orientation PowerPoint for parents of incoming students to Bennett Elementary

Fourth grade students researched marginalized populations from the American colonial era,  including people of color and women.  Then they wrote scripts, gathered props, learned how to use WeVideo and filmed these creative re-enactments of history.