By exploring myths surrounding the Wampanoag, the Pilgrims, and the "First Thanksgiving," this lesson from ReadWriteThink asks students to think critically about commonly believed myths regarding the Wampanoag Indians in colonial America. This lesson contemplates such questions as, "Did the Wampanoag bring the pilgrims popcorn on the first Thanksgiving?"
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Subjects: Language Arts - Reading | Social Studies - United States History
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Keywords: Cultural Diversity | Nonfiction | Fiction | Roots and Branches | Turkeys, Pilgrims, and Indian Corn: The Story of T | Grace, Catherine O'Neill | Bruchac, Margaret M. | New Look at Thanksgiving, A | McGovern, Ann | If You Sailed on the Mayflower in 1620 | Slapin, Beverly | Seale, Doris | Through Indian Eyes: The Native Experience in Book | If You Were at the First Thanksgiving | Kamma, Anne | Barth, Edna | Bradford, William | Of Plymouth Plantation | First Thanksgiving | Wampanoag Indian | Myth | Native American | American Indian | Pilgrim | Colonial America | United States History | U.S. History | American History | Thanksgiving | Racial Bias | Cultural Bias
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