The Dreadful Smelly Colonies Book Review

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I choose to read the book The Dreadful, Smelly Colonies for many reasons. The main reason that I choose to read this book to my students was because it was full of so much important educational information for the students to learn. Since I was doing my learning segment over Colonial America, I knew it would be important to read a book to the students that would teach them new and interesting information to the students. This brings me to the second reason why I choose this book, which is that it is very entertaining and highly engaging for students to listen to. I wanted to present the educational information about Colonial America in a way that the students would be able to understand and would enjoy learning about. This book is extremely

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