Ed 417 Power Point Presentation

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Ed 417 - Power Point Presentation

• Lisa Grise-Bell
• November 8,2000

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The First Thanksgiving

• To teach my fifth grade class about the first
  thanksgiving

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AMERICAN HERITAGE
Significant people of the time were the Pilgrims
and the Wampanoag Indians
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Time Line
1620 - The Mayflower sets sail from England 1621
- April - The Pilgrims finally leave the
Mayflower to live in the houses built during the
previous winter 1621 - November - The pilgrims
and the Wampanoag Indians celebrate the first
Thanksgiving 1863 - President Lincoln makes
Thanksgiving a National Holiday 19?? - Dr. Helms
is born 1988-1989 - Students in Mrs. Bells 5th
grade class are born 2000 - November - Lesson on
the First Thanksgiving
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Sarah Josepha Hale
Sarah Hale, editor of Ladys Book, wrote numerous
letters to governors and the President to make
Thanksgiving a National Holiday, until her
request was granted in 1863 by President Lincoln.
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Activities to Accompany the American Heritage
Strand

• www.plimoth.com
• http//www.holidays.net/thanksgiving/story.htm
• http//www.aitech.ac.jp/iteslj/cw/1/af-thanks.htm
  l
• http//teacher.scholastic.com/thanksgiving/index.h
  tm
• http//familyeducation.com/topic/front/0,1156,22-5
  395,00.html

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People in Society
Pilgrims
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Religious Freedom The Pilgrims,who were
Seperatists, were not allowed to practice their
religion in England during this time period. They
left England in search of a new life in
America.
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Items needed to survive in Plymouth

• Tools - hatchet, shovel, spade, hammer, nails for
  building houses
• Arms - musket, powder, shot, match, sword, pistol
• Fishing - hooks, line, poles

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Various foods eaten by the Pilgrims and Indians
at the First Thanksgiving in 1621
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• Web Sites and Activities to Accompany the People
  in Societies Strand

• http//www.holidays.net/thanksgiving/pilgrims.htm
• www.holidays.net/thanksgiving/craft.03.htm
• .http//www.kidsdomain.com/games/thanks.html
• http//www.childfun.com/themes/thanks.shtml
• http//teachervision.com/lesson-plans/lesson-785.h
  tml

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World Interactions
The Pilgrims spent 66 days aboard the Mayflower
during their voyage across the Atlantic Ocean.
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The Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth aboard the
Mayflower in 1620.
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Virginia Company

• The Virginia Company paid the 102 colonists fare
  to sail on the Mayflower and in exchange the
  pilgrims were to send back furs, lumber, and fish
  to England.
• The ship was to land near the Hudson River, but
  was blown off course by a storm and landed at
  Plymouth Rock on December 21, 1620.

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The pilgrims learned numerous things from the
Wampanoag Indians about how to survive in this
new land.
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Web Sites and Activities to Accompany the World
Interaction Strand

• http//www.stormfax.com/thanksgv.htm
• http//www.teelfamily.com/education/thanksunit.htm
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• http//www.eduplace.com/monthlytheme/november/
• http//www.eduplace.com/monthlytheme/november/acti
  vities.html
• http//rats2u.com/thanksgiving/thanksgiving_books.
  htmbooks

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Decision Making and Resources

• The pilgrims had to make everything that they
  needed to survive as there were no supply ships
  to replenish their supplies.
• The first winter was extremely difficult half of
  the 102 pilgrims died.
• In the spring, the Wampanoag Indians taught the
  Pilgrims where to hunt and fish and also how to
  plant different vegetables such as squash,
  pumpkins, and corn.
• The pilgrims also began to trade with the Indians
  for items that both peoples needed.

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The Indians helped the Pilgrims to survive by
showing them where to hunt and fish
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Web Sites and Activities to Accompany the
Decision Making Strand

• Www.plimoth.com
• http//bw.k12.ri.us/Plymouth/Plymouth.htm
• http//forum.swarthmore.edu/midpow/POW/Nov.23.html
  
• http//www.thanksgiving.org/5edulist.html
• http//rats2u.com/thanksgiving/thanksgiving_pilgri
  ms.htmindians

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Democratic Process
The Mayflower Contract The pilgrims knew that
they were not subject to the laws of the Virginia
Company, as the ship had not landed near the
Hudson River. The pilgrims were to settle on
Virginia Company lands and since the Pilgrims
were blown off course during a storm at sea the
pilgrims needed rules/laws to abide by in their
new homeland. All of the pilgrims signed an
agreement while still aboard the ship -which
called for the good of the colony, and this was
called the Mayflower Contract. This is the First
Example of self-rule.
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Equal Just Laws For The Common Good
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Abraham Lincoln made Thanksgiving a National
Holiday in 1863. He proclaimed this day in
November as a day of thanksgiving and praise to
our beneficent Father.
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Web Sites and Activities to Accompany the
Democratic Process Strand

• http//www.pilgrimhall.org/compact.htm
• http//members.aol.com/calebj/index.html
• http//gonewengland.about.com/travel/gonewengland/
  library/blcornucopia.htm
• http//rats2u.com/thanksgiving/thanksgiving_pilgri
  ms.htmindians
• http//wilstar.com/holidays/thanksqz.htm

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Citizenship Rights and Responsibilities
Courtesy, Honesty, Courage
These were the words that the Plymouth Pilgrims
expected of themselves and of others
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The Pilgrims lived in peace with the Indians for
numerous years, until more colonists arrived and
pushed the Indians off of their own land.
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• Distinct characteristics of Thanksgiving
• Tradition of Prayer
• Feasting and Family Reunion
• Proclamation by Civil Authorities

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A true thanksgiving for Pilgrims was a day of
solemn prayer and fasting. The first
Thanksgiving was actually a harvest
festival. Then in the 1840s, the Cult of
Domesticity existed, which placed an
emphasis on home life and the necessity of
enforcing family virtues against the coarse
masculine style and cutthroat business practices
of the day. Holiday focused on home and hearth
civilized virtues that had been lost.
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Web Sites and Activities to Accompany the
Citizenship Strand

• http//eldred.ne.mediaone.net/lma/oft.html
• http//www.annieshomepage.com/thanksgiving.html
• http//www.rootsweb.com/mosmd/
• http//www.night.net/tucker/sammy-thanks/sam-turke
  y-p0.html-ssi
• http//www.holidays.net/thanksgiving/goodies.htm

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And now, lets review a few of the main points
from our lesson today on the First Thanksgiving
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THE FIRST THANKSGIVING WAS CELEBRATED AT PLYMOUTH
IN 1621
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• The Pilgrims celebrated their harvest, which
  would have not been possible without the help of
  their Indian neighbors.
• Most of us in modern times, gather with our
  friends and family to give thanks for the past
  year and enjoy eating lots of wonderful food.

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THE END