THANKSGIVING RESOURCES AND LESSON PLANS




The best all around resource we've found is Thanksgiving in American Memory - Library of Congress:

  • Thanksgiving Timeline
  • Founders Give Thanks - early primary documents
  • Thanksgiving Remembered - oral histories
  • In Celebration of Thanksgiving - multi-ethnic perspective

    NATIVE AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE

  • The definitive Teaching About Thanksgiving, created by Native American educators in 1986 - courtesy of the Fourth World Documentation Project
  • Wampanoag people are still here! Listen to the voices of contemporary Wampanoag People from The Children's Museum, Boston.
  • On Thanksgiving, by Prof. Sean Teuton, enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation, Quill Works.


    • SOUTHERN THANKSGIVING
  • Primary document based Lesson Plan (grades 4 and 8) from the old govenor's mansion, Milledgeville, Georgia. Download Mrs. Brown's Thanksgiving letter and proceed to activity 3.

     

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