Thanksgiving Feast. How Thanksgiving Works - HowStuffWorks. Have you ever wondered why Americans gather around the table each year and prepare to eat food regarded as traditional, but rarely assembled as a meal the rest of the year? Turkey, gravy, corn, stuffing, cranberries and pies take center stage on Thanksgiving. But Thanksgiving also stands out from other American holidays in the sense that it isn't tied to any specific religion, and you can pretty much celebrate it however you want. The only essential traditions are to enjoy a meal with friends or family and to give thanks for what you have. In the pantheon of holidays, Thanksgiving is about as simple as it gets.
The holiday also honors American history, of course. Have you ever wondered where the particulars of this story and the other details of Thanksgiving actually come from? The Truth About Thanksgiving[By Susan Bates] Thanksgiving 2014 Reading Passages. Canadian Thanksgiving: a SKETCH by UCB's Muddleberry. Create a Thanksgiving Card on Storyboard That. The First Thanksgiving: Voyage on the Mayflower. Thanksgiving - Facts, Origin, Pictures & Videos - History.com. Thanksgiving | Feast of the American Colonists. Plantation - Online Learning Center. The First Thanksgiving Student Activities for Grades PreK-12.
Check Out the Thanksgiving-themed Writing Lesson on WordWriter. Last month BoomWriter published a Halloween writing lesson that you could have conducted through their free WordWriter service. This month BoomWriter is offering a similar lesson plan with a Thanksgiving theme. The lesson plan that is appropriate for students in grades three through eight. WordWriter allows you to create vocabulary lists that you want your students to incorporate into a writing assignment.
The new Thanksgiving-themed lesson plan includes a pre-made list of Thanksgiving-themed words for your students to use in the writing assignment that you distribute to them. Each step of the process is outline in the lesson plan. The lesson plan document also includes the Common Core standards addressed in the writing activity.
If you haven't tried BoomWriter or WordWriter before, check out my demonstration videos embedded below. Disclosure: BoomWriter is an advertiser on FreeTech4Teachers.com. Thanksgiving - Zaption. Thanksgiving. ESL Listening activity - This is America.