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I think that this book would be a good thing to include in a Thanksgiving lesson. Maybe not to introduce but to incorporate for more information. I believe that getting a larger picture of thanksgiving than just dinner and football is important.

A very descriptive and realistic approach to the history of Thanksgiving. The pictures are reenactments but detailed. The material is easy to understand for everyone even smaller children.

Uses maps, photographs, a large amount of text and facts to continue the story / book along.

A more intense read of non fiction. It is a high level of information that is factual. Describing the history of Thanksgiving

There was neither cranberry sauce nor pumpkin pie at the 1621 harvest celebration.

This book, published in 1996 was a very different read. It went into the different background of thanksgiving and where everything started. It was interesting to learn about a holiday we celebrate annually.

While this book does offer a new look at Thanksgiving as the subtitle promises, it's more a brief history of the interactions between the English and Wampanoag in what is now Massachusetts. Illustrated with photos from Plimoth Plantation, it's also a bit of an ad for the historic park. Other books offer more detail, but this is a good starting point for young readers.
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This book was about the real events of Thanksgiving and not the version we are used to hearing. This is a good nonfiction book because the text was easy to follow and was accompanied by pictures that were big, and clear which extended the story.

I would use this in my classroom because it would be a good resource to teach Thanksgiving as it actually happened and they can learn about why we celebrate it.

“Many Wampanoag were quicker to learn English than the English were to speak Wopanaak.”

“Many Wampanoag were quicker to learn English than the English were to speak Wopanaak.”

I would use this in my classroom around thanksgiving so that I can give students the real facts of thanksgiving so they can enjoy it for what it really is.

This is a good nonfiction book because it tells a more true story to thanksgiving as opposed to the tradition lies that are told to younger kids. The pictures are clear and help to extend the story. The text is easy to follow and appropriate for young children.

this book gave the significant facts that most history books leave out, which is very interesting to me. It also shows the impacts of inter-relationships in the 1600s

I would absolutely use this in my future classroom, because it gives a real look at what Thanksgiving is about and the information about before the pilgrims came. I also like how it talks about time before pilgrims and not starting there like we usually do in history classes.

The word Wampanaug means people of light

Have a great day celebrating or not celebrating how ever you do. I‘ll be with my mom‘s family being ignored, but at least I‘ll have a new book to read since I finished ‘An Absolutely Remarkable Thing‘ last night.

Thanksgiving has been my favorite holiday for a long time. I love the food, the relaxation, a whole day with my husband and kiddos. But I have become more and more aware that it is not the holiday that we learned about in school, when we made Pilgrim bonnets out of black and white construction paper and cut paper bags to make Indian vests.

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The kid had a lot of questions about what really happened in 1621 and the history of Europeans and Native Americans after reading this book. He was struggling to understand how the history could change and why Native Americans were slaughtered. It's hard to explain. But this book was very straight forward and presented facts in a way a child could understand. The questions he has are the ones that will push him to learn more.

Guess what I'm reading with the kid this Thanksgiving! Yep. I'm giving him the truth behind the myth that is Thanksgiving.

"History is never simple. The history of the English colonies in America is a history of European people imposing their culture, politics and religion onto Native people... Read listen and think about this our shared history."

For the win.