The First
Thanksgiving
Second
Grade
Created by:
Lauretta Flammer and David Makley
Completed as part of the
requirements for El Ed 4050 Fall Semester,
1999, Jay Monson, Course
Instructor, USU
Unit
Outline
I. Introductory
Lessons:
The true story of
Thanksgiving Folk
Dancing Thanksgiving
sing-along KWL on
Thanksgiving origin Watch a video
about Thanksgiving Read Sarah
Morton's Day by Kate Waters II. Developmental
Lessons
Thanksgiving
Poems Historical
personal journals Why Trading
Posts? Matching needs Trading instead
of buying Pilgrims and
Indians trading Planting
seeds III. Culmination
Lessons
Let's move to
mars (foreign lands, develop community) Read Molly's
Pilgrim, talk about modern day
pilgrims In Utah, discuss
the pioneers and how they were like the
pilgrims Conduct a
mock-trade with another class KWL (Learned part
after unit) Role-play the
first Thanksgiving Make up a song
with lyrics about the first Thanksgiving
Pilgrims
and Indians Trading
Subject or Topic:
History/Pilgrims
Objectives: To
relate to students the methods and materials used by the
pilgrims to trade with the Wampanoag Indians and to
strengthen the concept of relationships in an historical
context.
Motivation:
Brainstorm ideas about the resources and technologies
both the pilgrims and the Indians had to share with each
other and develop a better way of living. List them on
the board or transparency. Divide them into columns of
Pilgrims and Indians.
Methods: This
lesson will include read-aloud, lecture, discussion, arts
and crafts, and role-playing. The lesson will begin with
a reading of sections from The First Thanksgiving
by Jean Craighead George that details the goods and
services each group had to offer. Next, a list will be
read of items involved in an actual trade between the two
groups. The class will then produce a list, which will be
written on the board of several items and services each
group could have traded. The class will then be divided
into two groups, one representing the Pilgrims and one
representing the Wampanoag tribe. Using the list on the
board, each person will come up with one or two items to
trade and create a physical representation of each item.
There will then be an opportunity for the students to
trade their represented item for whatever they need, i.e.
corn, seeds, fur, guns, cloth.
Assessment:
Assessment will be mainly through observation of the
discussion and role-playing processes. The instructor
should focus on whether the students produce realistic
trade items and how they go about trading the
items.
Materials: The
First Thanksgiving, art supplies
Resources
The First
Thanksgiving by Jean Craighead George WWW.plimoth.org/library/pilmyth.htm
Unit
Overview: This unit is a study of the relationships,
which led to, and the facts surrounding the development
of the first Thanksgiving.
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