The First Thanksgiving

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What do you know about Thanksgiving?

In October 1621, the English settlers had their first Thanksgiving feast. Today Thanksgiving is celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November in the USA. It is a time for sharing good food with family and friends. Corn was very Tisquantum (1585 – 1622) was a Native American who important to the taught the English settlers how to grow corn and helped them Native Americans. through a hard winter. He also told the English how the Native In their different Americans celebrated the harvest of corn. After reading a How did Tisquantum help the English? b Describe the people in the painting. What are they doing? c Do Norwegians have a similar festival? languages the word corn meant “life”. The Native Americans made popcorn. Vurderingseksemplar

Jean Leon Gerome Ferris (1863–1930): The First Thanksgiving (oil on canvas).