Thanksgiving Activities | Thanksgiving Unit

This Thanksgiving unit is stuffed full of historical fun! It includes everything you need teach about Thanksgiving, the Pilgrims, and the Wampanoags. You will address a variety of Common Core Standards along the way!! Two text passages and reading detective sheet are included with each lesson to allow for easy differentiation while addressing Common Core close reading Standards.

- Vocabulary Cards

-Recommended Read Alouds

-Lesson Plans

-Crafts

-Close Reads (2 versions of each passage)

-Writing: compare/contrast, opinion, informative, letters

LESSONS:

*Meet The Pilgrims

*A Long Voyage

*Discovering Plymouth

*Meet The Wampanoags

*Samoset & Squanto

*Sam and Sarah

*The First Thanksgiving

*Thankful Hearts

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Standards Addressed:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.1

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.2

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.3

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.1.8

*Updated 11/02/14*