Thanksgiving LANDSCAPE

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1. What's Thanksgiving

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Thanksgiving

Learning Landscape

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Pilgrim Farm Fun!

Watch this video and answer the following questions...

Click HERE to help the Pilgrims round up their animals!

1. Thanksgiving Day is celebrated on...

a) the fourth Thursday of November.

b) the third Thursday of November.

c) the second Thursday of November.

2. What happened in 1620?

a) Families celebrated Thanksgiving.

b) Farms were invented.

c) The Pilgrims arrived to America.

3. How did the Pilgrims arrive to modern day America?

a) On board a ship called the Mayflower.

b) On board a ship called the Massachusetts.

c) On board a ship called the Pilgrims.

4. The Pilgrim´s first winter in the "New World" was...

a) Happy

b) Hard

c) Soft

5. What happened that first winter?

a) The Pilgrims starved.

b) The Pilgrims starved and many of them died from disease.

c) The Pilgrims went back home.

6. What happened after the hard winter of 1620?

a) A local, Native American tribe helped the Pilgrims.

b) The Pilgrims went back home.

c) The Pilgrims continued to suffer.

7. How did the Native Americans help the Pilgrims?

a) They taught them how to grow corn.

b) They taught them how to hunt and fish.

c) They taught them how to grow corn, hunt and fish.

8. What happened in the Fall of 1621?

a) The Pilgrims had a rich harvest.

b) The Pilgrims got sick again.

c) The Pilgrims went back home.

9. How did they celebrate the rich harvest of 1621?

a) They danced and sang.

b) The Pilgrims and Native Americans sat together and had a feast.

c) They sailed across the ocean.

10. How do people celebrate Thanksgiving Day in the USA?

a) By tending to the harvest.

b) By sailing to London.

c) By organizing a family feast.

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Congrats! You helped the Pilgrims!

Look at the pictures, find the hidden word and answer the final question.

The Pilgrims had a hard winter in 1620. They died.

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FIND THE WORD AND CLICK ON IT!

Drag the magnifying glass!

FEAST

Drag the magnifying glass!

HARVEST

Drag the magnifying glass!

STARVED

Drag the magnifying glass!

COLONY OF PILGRIMS

Drag the magnifying glass!

GATHER

The Native Americans and Pilgrims gathered but got sick.

The Native Americans and Pilgrims gathered on board the Mayflower.

The Native Americans and Pilgrims gathered for a feast.

How did the colony of Pilgrims celebrate the rich harvest of 1620?

THE QUESTION

Congratulations! You helped the Pilgrims!

AWESOME!

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TRY AGAIN!

DO YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THE MAYFLOWER?

One of these locations is where the Mayflower was built. Can you find it? Check out the clues.

Clue 05

Clue 04

Clue 03

Clue 02

Clue 01

Can you find the Mayflower´s final destination?

DO YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT MAYFLOWER?

RIGHT! That´s the place!

DO YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT MAYFLOWER?

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DO YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT MAYFLOWER?

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Look at the Mayflower's route. Then click on the ship in the right corner to find out more about the Mayflower!

RIGHT! That´s the place!

DO YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT MAYFLOWER?

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Use a piece of paper or this form:

NEWS

MAYFLOWER

Secondary

5th-6th

3rd-4th

1st-2nd

# 0002

4th Thursday of November

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YOUR THANKSGIVING

Read the Vocabulary words to the right. Your teacher will choose some of them and ask you to write your own story about the Origin of Thanksgiving.

Everyone can write

Are you ready for Thanksgiving?

Watch the video and answer the following questions..

Turkey

Mashed potatoes

Click on the Turkey

Pumpkin Pie

Corn

Mashed potatoes

Click on the Corn

Pumpkin Pie

Carrots

Biscuits

Click on the Carrots

Yams

Corn

Stuffing

Corn

Stuffing

Click on the Cranberries

Cranberries

Yams

Stuffing

Click on the Stuffing

Biscuits

Mashed potatoes

Yams

Click on the Mashed Potatoes

Biscuits

Stuffing

Cranberry

Click on the Biscuits

Biscuits

Pumpkin Pie

Yams

Corn

Click on the Yams

Mashed potatoes

Pumpkin Pie

Cranberry

Click on the Pumpkin Pie

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I like Turkey. Do you like Turkey?

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I don´t like corn. Do you like corn?

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I like carrots. Do you like carrots?

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I like Cranberries. Do you Like Cranberries?

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I don´t like Stuffing. Do you like Stuffing?

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I like Mashed Potatoes. Do you like Mashed Potatoes?

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I like Biscuits. Do you like Biscuits?

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I like Yams. Do you like Yams?

You're ready for Thanksgiving

I like Pumpkin Pie. Do you like Pumpkin Pie?

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Do you remember the names of these pictures?

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Sailing across the Atlantic Ocean from England aboard the Mayflower, the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock on December 11, 1620, in what is now known as Massachusetts.

Those colonist were later known as the Pilgrims.

The Pilgrims were a group of English Puritans who wanted to break away from the Church of England and start a new life.

Thanksgiving is an annual feast to honor the first Thanksgiving in America that took place in the year 1621, when the colonists of Plymouth, Massachusetts shared a meal with the Wampanoag Indians, who were native to the land.

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the native people to protect one another. The Wampanoag Indians and particularly an English-speaking tribe member named Squanto, were helpful in teaching the Pilgrims how to survive. Squanto taught them everything from using fish as a fertilizer for crops to

In March of 1621 an agreement was made between the colonists and

When the Pilgrims reached Cape Cod, they were unprepared for the winter. That first winter was harsh and devastating. Half of the Pilgrim colony died, unable to survive in the "New World."

A few years earlier, disease had wiped out much of the native population.

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Although several U. S. Presidents pushed for Thanksgiving to be a National holiday, it was Sarah Josepha Hale, a magazine editor, who made it a reality. Her 40-year campaign of writing editorials and letters in support of a National Thanksgiving Holiday finally paid off in 1863 when

even before theEuropeans arrived to America.

between the two groups. The Pilgrims and the Wampanoag tribe sat down that year for the first Thanksgiving. It was likely just a routine to celebrate the harvest. Native Americans actually celebrated “Thanksgiving”

building stronger homes. He also translated and helped build relationships

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traveling to the New World, it actually began as a day to celebrate the recovery of the Prince of Wales (later king Edward VII) from a serious illness. The holiday’s meaning has changed over the years, and now it is very similar to that of the United States - a day to come together with family and celebrate one’s many blessings.

In Canada, Thanksgiving was also declared a national holiday by the Canadian Parliament in 1879, but originally the day had an entirely different meaning.Although it is also a celebration based on Europeans

President Abraham Lincoln declared it a National Holiday.