Teaching Thanksgiving Lessons & Resources!
October 21, 2009Welcome to Beyond Pilgrim Hats!
We hope that you find this site full of information on how to teach Thanksgiving in meaningful and critical ways. Please find four lesson plans and other links to resources to support your teaching below.
Thanks for attending our NCSS presentation!
Erica Christie & Sarah Montgomery
Lesson Plans:
Critical Media Literacy Lesson Plan
Historical Inquiry Lesson Plan
Children’s Literature & Websites:
Thanksgiving Quotes to Consider:
“The Pilgrim Fathers incorporated an early thanksgiving day among (their) moral influences…it blessed and beautified the homes it reached.”
-Sarah Josepha Hale, 1865
“Thanksgiving is celebrated at the expense of Native Peoples who had to give up their lands and culture for America to become what it is today.”
-Linda Coombs, Aquinnah Wampanoag, 1997
