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Thanksgiving Perspectives

Objectives
  • Examine how diverse groups can perceive shared experiences differently
  • Review commentary from indigenous writers about Thanksgiving
  • Make inferences and draw conclusions based on written information

Essential Questions
  • How and why do we celebrate Thanksgiving?
  • What is the story of Thanksgiving from a Native American perspective?

​Activities 

1. Get together with a partner. While one of you describes what you know about the origin of the Thanksgiving holiday, the other one writes down key words and images from your description. (Note: If necessary, draw out elements of the origin story that relate to Native Americans.) Where did you learn these stories? What ideas or values do you think of when you celebrate Thanksgiving? 

2.
With your same partner, one of you read, The Suppressed Speech of Wamsutta James, and the other reads, Thanksgiving: A Native American View. After you finished reading, take turns summarizing what you read to each other.
3. As a class, discuss:
  • Reflect back on the values of Thanksgiving you described at the start of the activity. Did the Pilgrims uphold these values in their treatment toward the Indians? Why?
  • What was new to you in the authors' descriptions of the first Thanksgiving? Why do you think these details are sometimes omitted from popular culture's take on Thanksgiving?
  • Why does Keeler refer to Native Americans as a "very select group of survivors"? Is her characterization consistent with James's perception? Why?
  • Wamsutta James' speech inspired some Native Americans to boycott Thanksgiving and instead observe a National Day of Mourning. Keeler takes a slightly different approach. Which approach makes the most sense to you? Why?
  • Keeler sees present-day Thanksgiving celebrations as a tool for healing. What are ways this can happen? Does the Day of Mourning advance or hinder healing? Why?
  • In what ways are James's and Keeler's perspectives gifts to our nation?
Lesson taken from Teaching Tolerance - Thanksgiving Mourning

​Deconstructing the myths of  "The First Thanksgiving"
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Last Updated January 27th, 2023.
  • Home
    • About Mr. Wince
    • Diversity and Inclusion Statement
    • My Pedagogy Decisions >
      • Smiles and Frowns
      • Project-Based Learning >
        • Questioning >
          • Question Formulation Technique >
            • Develop a Driving Question
            • Produce Questions
            • Know the Four Rules
            • Identify Open and Closed-Ended Questions
            • Set Priority Questions
            • Plan Next Steps
            • Reflect on Learning
            • When Things Get Tough
        • Design
        • Collaboration
        • Research >
          • Goal Development
        • Project Management
        • Craftsmanship
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      • Student Portfolios
      • How to Learn: Remembering and Forgetting
      • SBG to Ungrading
      • Reflection is Learning
      • Readings on Pedagogy
    • Why I Am A Member of TSEA
    • The Study of History
    • Class Texts and Reading Strategies >
      • A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
      • An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
      • An African American and Latinx History of the United States
    • Course/Project Archives >
      • World History >
        • Q1 - Every Story >
          • Thinking Like a Historian and Geographer
          • Renaissance, Reformation and Scientific Revolution
          • c.1400s - c.1700s - Exploration and Colonization
        • Q2 - Economics and Labor Systems >
          • c.1600s-c.1800s - Age of Revolutions
          • c.1800s - Industrialization
        • Q3 - Conflicts and Resolutions >
          • 1914-1919 - The Great War
          • 1917-1923 - Russian Revolution
          • 1939-1945 - World War II
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          • 1940s-1980s Cold War and Proxy Wars
          • Independence & Decolonization Movements
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    • Q3 - Our American Story: Why Care? >
      • Q3 American History Weekly Agendas
      • Q3 AH Student Portfolio Expectations
      • History Readings & Socractic Seminars
      • 1900-1910s: Imperialism, Progressivism & World War I
      • 1920s: The Roaring Twenties
      • 1930s: The Great Depression
      • 1930s-1945: World War II
  • Psychology
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      • Q3 Psychology Weekly Agendas
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      • Psych Readings - Socractic Seminars
      • Introduction to Psychology
      • Biological Pillar >
        • Biological Bases of Behavior
        • Sensation
        • Consciousness
        • Biological Careers in Psychology
      • Cognition Pillar >
        • Cognition
        • Memory
        • Perception
        • Intelligence
        • Cognition Careers in Psychology
      • Development and Learning Pillar >
        • Life Span Development
        • Learning
        • Language
        • Development and Learning Careers in Psychology
  • U.S. Government
    • Government Course Info, Student Portfolios & Sources
    • Q3 A More Perfect Union: 28th >
      • Q3 Government History Weekly Agendas
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      • Gov. Readings - Socractic Seminars
      • Democracy Essential Lessons
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      • Voting Essential Lessons
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