If You Were at the First Thanksgiving


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Questions and answers about the first Thanksgiving and what it was like to live in America in the 1620's.




If You Were a Kid at the First Thanksgiving Dinner


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Imagines what it would have been like for both a settler child and an indigenous child to experience the first Thanksgiving in the Plymouth Colony.




The Story of the First Thanksgiving


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Enjoy this illustrated story of the first Thanksgiving….and then learn to draw it yourself!




Thanksgiving Then and Now


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Compare how the first Thanksgiving was celebrated to how we celebrate the holiday today.




If You Lived During the Plimoth Thanksgiving


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What do you know about the thanksgiving feast at Plimoth? What if you lived in a different time and place? What would you wear? What would you eat? How would your daily life be different? Scholastic's If You Lived... series answers all of kids' most important questions about events in American history. With a question and answer format, kid-friendly artwork, and engaging information, this series is the perfect partner for the classroom and for history-loving readers. What if you lived when the English colonists and the Wampanoag people shared a feast at Plimoth? What would you have worn? What would you have eaten? What was the true story of the feast that we now know as the first Thanksgiving and how did it become a national holiday? Chris Newell answers all these questions and more in this comprehensive dive into the feast at Plimoth and the history leading up to it. Carefully crafted to explore both sides of this historical event, this book is a great choice for Thanksgiving units, and for teaching children about this popular holiday.




The First Thanksgiving


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Veteran historian Robert Tracy McKenzie sets aside centuries of legend and political stylization to present the mixed blessing that was the first Thanksgiving. Like good narrative history, McKenzie's critical account of our Pilgrim ancestors confronts us with our own unresolved issues of national and spiritual identity.




The First Thanksgiving


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Describes how the first Thanksgiving celebration came to be.




The Pilgrims' First Thanksgiving


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Describes how the first Thanksgiving celebration.







What Was the First Thanksgiving?


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Learn more about the history of the feast that started off as a harvest celebration and has now become a national holiday. After their first harvest in 1621, the Pilgrims at Plymouth shared a three-day feast with their Native American neighbors. Of course, the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag didn’t know it at the time, but they were making history.