Top 10 Lesson Plans for Thanksgiving
This year, the nation will celebrate Thanksgiving on November 28th. Bring holiday spirit to your class with these helpful teaching tools. Here are our top 10 Thanksgiving resources to use in your classroom:
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November 8, 2013 November Newsletter: Lesson Plan Ideas for Veterans Day and Thanksgiving
Looking for lesson plan ideas to celebrate Veterans Day and Thanksgiving in your classroom? Look no further—our November newsletter has lots of suggestions on how you can incorporate American stories, speeches, and songs in your curriculum. Check out the newsletter after the jump.
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November 21, 2012 Thanksgiving traditions: an immigrant’s journey
Yesterday, we wrote about Dorothy Canfield Fisher’s short story “A New Pioneer,” which tells the tale of a young Jewish immigrant, Magda, who is celebrating her first Thanksgiving. Today, we’d like to highlight another immigrant’s relationship with this distinctly American holiday: Ana Menéndez’s short essay “Celebrations of Thanksgiving: Cuban Seasonings.” The story is also found in our ebook “The Meaning of Thanksgiving,” available in full here.
Many … Read more »
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November 20, 2012 A new perspective on Thanksgiving
As we continue to prepare for Thanksgiving Day on Thursday, today we bring you another selection from our ebook, “The Meaning of Thanksgiving”: Dorothy Canfield Fisher’s short story “A New Pioneer.” The story is written for and about young schoolchildren, and is a great story to use with children to discuss the meaning of Thanksgiving—and the meaning of America. In the story, Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879–1958)—American author, education reformer, … Read more »
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November 19, 2012 Reading Washington’s Thanksgiving Proclamation
The first national Thanksgiving authorized by the federal government took place in 1789, the first year of George Washington’s presidency, when President Washington recognized November 26 as “a day of public thanksgiving and prayer.”
With Thanksgiving just a few days away, take some time to read Washington’s thoughtful proclamation, which is part of our new ebook on The Meaning of Thanksgiving. As you do, … Read more »
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November 16, 2012 The Meaning of Thanksgiving
With Thanksgiving Day less than a week away, it is time to turn our attention to examining what the holiday means and how we can properly observe it. It is, in other words, a great time to check out our latest ebook in our American Calendar curriculum series: “The Meaning of Thanksgiving.”
With selections from American authors and statesmen such as George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Jack London, Read more »
