Thanksgiving links on the internet

Links for teachers

Assignment

Answer the following questions with a full sentence or a paragraph,  in the order you prefer:

  1. What is Thanksgiving in the USA? when does it take place each year? What is the day and date of Thanskgiving 2009?
  2. What is the link between Thanksgiving and harvest festivals? Name, describe shortly and date another harvest festival.
  3. Who were the first White Anglo-Saxon Protestant settlers? When, how and why do they come?
  4. Who were the First Americans they met and what happened during those few years?
  5. Build a typical Thanksgiving  three courses menu.
  6. Explain the turkey jokes.

Add a list of about ten words you looked up in the dictionary and give their translation in this context.

Links to visit

Des questionnaires avec des sites où trouver les réponses (notez les phrases obtenues)
http://www.scholastic.com/scholastic_thanksgiving/feast/play.htm

Thanksgiving on the Net (histoire complète depuis l'antiquité)
http://www.holidays.net/thanksgiving/

The first Thanksgiving
http://pilgrims.net/thanksgiving.htm

The Mayflower Web Pages  (textes et des informations sur le voyage, choisir dans le menu de gauche)
http://www.mayflowerhistory.com/History/history.php 

Thanksgiving vu par des "natives" : un autre point de vue

<>http://www.halcyon.com/pub/FWDP/Americas/tchthnks.txt
http://www.racismagainstindians.org/Perspectives/Essays/ThanksgivingNativePoint.htm 

The First Americans
 http://www.victorianas.com/thanks/native.html

Recettes et menus
http://www.epicurious.com/cooking/holiday/thanksgiving/index

Turkey jokes
http://www.chevroncars.com/learn/fun-games/turkey-jokes

Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York
http://www1.macys.com/campaign/parade/parade.jsp

Pages de liens vers des sites pour en savoir plus sur Thanksgiving
Education World:  http://www.educationworld.com/holidays/archives/thanksgiving.shtml

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