Thanksgiving Reading

A history of Thanksgiving

Strategy: RUNNERS

• Read the title and made a prediction. Read the questions.

• Underline the important words in the questions.

• Number the paragraphs.

• Now, read and while reading...

• Encircle and annotate.

• Reread the questions. Find evidence.

• Select the best answer choice.

So far, we learned that...

• Thanksgiving did not really begin with the pilgrims.

• Sara J. Hale was a magazine editor who persisted to make Thanksgiving a National holiday.

• There had been changes as to where and how to celebrate Thanksgiving in the United States.

• President Lincoln proclaimed that Thanksgiving is a national holiday.

• We learned what the Pilgrims and the Native Americans ate during Thanksgiving.

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Multiple Choice

Q23 Which statement recounts the selection?

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Multiple Choice

Evidence: Where is your evidence for Q23?

• all over the passage

• beginning of the passage

• middle of the passage

• ending of the passage

Multiple Choice

Q24 What does it mean to "make all the trimmings we have today?"

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Multiple Choice

Q25 Based on paragraphs 1 and 2, how are Sarah J. Hale and President Lincoln similar?

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Q26 In paragraph 2, what does the word proclaimed mean?

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Q27 How did Sarah J. Hale fight to get Thanksgiving to become a national holiday?

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Evidence for Q27?

• paragraph 1

• paragraph 2

• paragraph 3

• paragraph 4

Multiple Choice

Q28 According to the text, why were pies not served at the first Thanksgiving?

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Multiple Choice

Evidence: Where did you find your evidence from Q28?

• Paragraph 10

• Paragraph 7

• Paragraph 8

• Paragraph 6

Multiple Choice

Q29 Which sentence from the selection supports the idea that thanksgiving had a different meaning to the pilgrims?

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Multiple Choice

Evidence: Where did you find your evidence for Q29?

• Paragraph 1

• Paragraph 2

• Paragraph 3

• Paragraph 4