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The First Thanksgiving

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*Parents, this is an in-class assignment

Are you ready to celebrate Thanksgiving? Click the link below to see what what it was like to celebrate the First Thanksgiving and explore the perspectives of the English Colonists and the Wampanoag People.



Click below to hear two letters from a pilgrim child.
http://www.scholastic.com/scholastic_thanksgiving/letters/Mayflower_letter2.htm?eml=OT/e/20121108////Thanksgiving_Letter2//Listen/pilgrim/TNL_Openers//&ym_MID=1447502&ym_rid=11180894

http://www.scholastic.com/scholastic_thanksgiving/letters/Mayflower_letter3.htm?eml=OT/e/20121115////Thanksgiving_Letter3//Listen/pilgrim/TNL_Openers//&ym_MID=1447530&ym_rid=11180894

Click below to hear two letters from a Wampanoag child.
http://www.scholastic.com/scholastic_thanksgiving/letters/tribe_letter2.htm?eml=OT/e/20121108////Thanksgiving_Letter2//Listen/wampanoag/TNL_Openers//&ym_MID=1447503&ym_rid=11180894

http://www.scholastic.com/scholastic_thanksgiving/letters/tribe_letter3.htm?eml=OT/e/20121115////Thanksgiving_Letter3//Listen/wampanoag/TNL_Openers//&ym_MID=1447531&ym_rid=11180894

Post a comment about your favorite fact when you are finished exploring.

Have fun!
Mrs. Blake

Comments

  1. will cardNovember 20, 2012 at 12:41 PM

    My favortite letter was the first when LIZZY talks abouts being on the May Flower.

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