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| The First Thanksgiving Celebration |
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Objectives:
Day 1
Students will discuss what they know about the history
of Thanksgiving and what they would like to learn about
it.
Students will be assigned to cooperative groups and individual
roles will be established within each group.
Day 2
Working in their groups, the students will read and share
books on the Wampanoag and gather information for an oral
presentation.
Day 3
Students will make oral presentations to the class.
Students will describe what they learned about the Wampanoag.
Motivation:
Write Wampanoag on a board and ask students if
they can explain what this word means. Record the responses.
Briefly explain that the Wampanoag were the native people
who helped the Pilgrims when they first arrived in America.
Procedure:
Day 1
Using three sheets of chart paper, create a KWL chart with each letter as a heading. Explain that K stands for what you know, W is what you want to know, and L is what you learned. Ask the students what they know about the Thanksgiving story. Record each version under the K. Review the information on the chart. Ask, "Have we included any information about the Wampanoag?" After completing the K chart, ask the students what they want to know about the Wampanoag. Record student's responses on the W chart.
Tell the students that they are going to work in research
groups to learn about the Wampanoag. Divide students into
groups of four and assign a task to each group member.
Narrator: Reads selections about the Wampanoag to the group.
Note Taker: Takes notes about what is being read.
Time Keeper/Group Presenter: Keeps the group on task and presents information.
Recorder: Records the information on sheets of paper.
Day 2
Students meet in their assigned groups. Review the cooperative
tasks for the groups and give each group a reading selection.
Once the narrator has read the selection and the note
taker has taken notes on the reading, the group decides
what information is important to include in its presentation.
The recorder writes this information on the paper. If
time allows, the students may illustrate their favorite
part of the story and share the illustrations with the
whole class.
Day 3
Each group presents what it learned about the Wampanoag
to the entire class. Once all of the groups have presented
their findings, the L chart is completed
during a class discussion about the new information that
was learned.
Closure:
Review the information from the K and W
charts and compare it to the information that was included
on the L chart.
Ask the students: “Did you learn new information
about our celebration of Thanksgiving?”
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