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A Long Walk to Water

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Brewster Students To Forgo Classes In Symbolic Walk Brewster Students To Forgo Classes In Symbolic Walk
Brewster Students To Forgo Classes In Symbolic Walk Students from Brewster High School are on a mission to take real-life action after being inspired by a piece of literature they read in a ninth-grade English class. A total of nine students will take a symbolic six-hour trek around the track on Friday, April 12 in lieu of attending their normally scheduled classes in an effort to raise awareness and money to combat the ongoing water crisis in South Sudan. The students were inspired after reading Linda Sue Park’s “A Long Walk to Water” in Jessica Juska’s freshman Honors English class. The book tells the true story of one of the Lost Boys of …

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by Valerie Musson