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The First Thanksgiving Feast for Grades 6–8

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It's time for the feast! Young historians complete their study of the First Thanksgiving by completing an online activity, watching a slideshow, and examining a First Thanksgiving timeline. After answering text-dependent questions to test their comprehension of the materials, individuals craft a scrapbook, adopting the perspective of someone who attended the feast.

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CCSS: Designed
Concepts
first-person point of view, perspectives, diverse perspectives, the wampanoag, pilgrims, plymouth colony, thanksgiving, the first thanksgiving, native american culture, native american history, north american native americans, native americans, native american tribes
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Additional Tags
social studies
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Instructional Ideas
  • Have groups investigate the National Day of Mourning and Unthanksgiving Day protests and present their findings to the whole class
Classroom Considerations
  • The third and final lesson in the Thanksgiving Feast series
  • Requires the KWL chart, the readings, and handouts from the previous two lessons in the series
Pros
  • The richly detailed plan offers several different suggestions for ways to conduct the lesson
  • An answer key is included for the reading comprehension check
  • The lesson also looks at the problems that contributed to the deteriorating relationships between the Wampanoag and the Pilgrims
Cons
  • None