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This The First Thanksgiving Feast for Grades 6–8 lesson plan also includes:
- The Thanksgiving Feast: A First Thanksgiving Activity
- KWL Chart (.pdf)
- Text-Dependent Questions (.pdf)
- Text-Dependent Questions Answer Key (.pdf)
- First Thanksgiving Questions: 6-8 (.pdf)
- First Thanksgiving Questions Answer Key (.pdf)
- Grading Rubric for Grades 6-8 (.pdf)
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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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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