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Boat of Quotes

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Imagine that that you are in a great big boat, floating out on the ocean, waiting to be rescued...  Storytelling is an excellent way to entertain people when they are waiting for something... So Choose one of the following lyric quotes from Peter Puffin songs to start your story... Create at least 10 sentences for your story. Make sure you have a beginning, middle and an end.  You can use the Peter Puffin quote anywhere in the story. Remember to put quotation marks " ... " around someone else's words.  At the bottom of your story include the author of the quote.  
e.g.. Quote taken from song "Passengers" by Peter Lenton & Gareth Thomson

Pick the quote you want to use in your story:

  • "kid hearts just know" from Kid Hearts
  • "we're just passengers... that's all...fellow travelers... on a blue green ball" from Passengers
  • "It's not what you say, it's what you do" from Big Kid Blues
  • "if burrowing owls could speak" from If Burrowing Owls Could Speak
  • "And I know there's still time..." from Extinction Train
  • "Going going gone,  the way we treat this earth is wrong" from Going Going Gone
  • "We should learn to believe, kid hearts are wise" from Kid Hearts.

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