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West Lawn students explore Africa right in their own school

By Harold Reutter
harold.reutter@theindependent.com
Published: Tuesday, November 16, 2010 9:01 PM CST
Nearly two hundred West Lawn Elementary students stayed after school on Tuesday to take an imaginary trip to Africa.

One of their guides for the trip was Morgan Woode, a custodian at West Lawn, who was born in Ghana before coming to the United States. Woode first talked to the students about the long, three-month journey that it would take a ship to sail from America to Africa.

He used a West Lawn teacher to help remind the students that such a trip would be made across the Atlantic Ocean.  Full Story

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