Thanksgiving
Vocabulary Quiz(johnsesl.com) :
"Match the definitions in the right column with the correct
word in the left column.
There are more definitions than words."
Mayflower
Map/Quiz Printout- The Crossing of
the Mayflower (enchantedlearning.com) :
"Read the map, then answer the geography questions about the Pilgrims'
crossing on the Mayflower."
Thanksgiving
Analogies- exercise to print (rhlschool.com)
:
ex : "Christmas is to December as Thanksgiving is to _______________.
( month / date / celebrate / November )"
Thanksgiving Day- a webquest "Surf the net and find the answers to these questions..." Niveau 5ème (lewebpedagogique.com)
Mrs. Inman's Thanksgiving Web Quest
"You will be researching facts on how Thanksgiving began and the important role it played in shaping our country..." (teacherweb.com)
Thanksgiving
- a webquest
: Fiche élève + Corrigé professeur envoyée par Marina Bureaud (Ac. Poitiers)
Thanksgiving
Webquest (teacher.scholastic.com) "Visit Web sites about the Pilgrims, the Wampanoag,
and the famous harvest feast and learn new facts along the way."
Thanksgiving
- a scavenger hunt - created by: Renée
Maufroid (quia.com) "Learn about what the first Thanksgiving was actually
like and learn about the work of a Historian."
A Video Game Thanksgiving(uk.gamespy.com)
"In this version of the Thanksgiving story, Mario fled a famine to try raising power-ups in the New World.
He had a hard time until he and his people made friends with the natives, which, of course, eventually leads to a feast." (Neatorama)
Thanksgiving Day Cartoon: Bon Appétit
"Today (the fourth Thursday in November) is Thanksgiving Day in the U.S., traditionally a time for families and friends to get together for a special meal,
and give thanks for what they have. It also gives cartoonists an opportunity to display their skills.
This cartoon is by Clay Bennett from the Chattanooga Times Free Press."
+ COMMENT + EXPLANATION + LANGUAGE NOTE + NOTE
(englishblog.com)
Enregistrer l'image
pour obtenir la taille normale.
Songs and Poems :
Nicole Westbrook – It’s Thanksgiving(YouTube)+ LYRICS : "December was Christmas. January was New Year.
April was Easter. And the 4th of July, but now it’s Thanksgiving.
Oh oh oh it’s Thanksgiving. We we we are gonna have a good time...
With a turkey, eh mash potatoes eh..." (lybio.net)
Dinner Songs For Thanksgiving- NO AUDIO Example : A Thanksgiving Dinner by Maude Grant - a poem and a song "Take a turkey, stuff it fat,
Some of this and some of that.
Get some turnips, peel them well.
Cook a big squash in its shell..."
(festivals.iloveindia.com)
I ate too much turkey - a poem by Jack Prelutsky "I ate too much turkey,
I ate too much corn,
I ate too much pudding and pie,
I'm stuffed up with muffins
and much too much stuffin',
I'm probably going to die..."
(theholidayzone.com)
Johnny
Cash - Thanksgiving Prayer - a song(YouTube) - with the LYRICS(drquinnmd.com) :
"We've come to the time in the season
When family and friends gather near
To offer a prayer of Thanksgiving
For blessings we've known through the year
To join hands and thank the creator..."
Barack Obama pardons Cobbler the turkey for Thanksgiving
"US President Barack Obama, accompanied by his daughters Sasha and Malia, releases two turkeys for Thanksgiving after a tradition started by President John F Kennedy in 1963."
ARTICLE + VIDEO (telegraph.co.uk)
Thanksgiving - Dexter - "In this scene from Dexter, Dexter loses his cool during Thanksgiving Dinner with Trinity." (YouTube) This video contains images which some people may find unsettling.
Cyber Monday
"is a marketing term for the Monday immediately following Black Friday, the Friday following Thanksgiving Day in the United States,
created by companies to persuade people to shop online... (Wikipedia)
How the Turkey Gets Its Pardon - 11/23/2010 "The turkey is the centerpiece of many a Thanksgiving feast.
But at least two are spared the chopping block each year in a tradition that goes back to President Truman.
WSJ's Stokely Baksh reports on how the National Thanksgiving Turkey and its alternate are selected and where they will go after their pardon." (online.wsj.com)