Turkey Day Tale Misses Some Stuffing A3000 Lesson

​Turkey Day Tale Misses
Some Stuffing: A3000

By Brendan Mccann

-Think back to our skills lesson on Summarizing.
-Include IMPORTANT details and leave out unimporant ones.
-Which details would you include if you were explaining what happened?

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​Strategy: Summarizing Text

Multiple Choice

Suppose you were writing a summary of the Article. Which of these should not be included?

Strategy: Evaluate the details. Choose the one that is less important than the rest.

• The Pilgrims lived in Leiden before they went to Plymouth in America.

• In their first attempt to leave England, the Pilgrims got thrown in jail.

• After the Pilgrims arrived in America, Squanto taught them how to plant corn.

• People brought extra baggage on the Mayflower, like a lot of shoes.

​Which passage from the Article best supports the idea that the Pilgrims were willing to take risks to gain religious freedom?
Strategy: Refer back to text
-Reread paragraph 3
-Do you see evidence of risks?
-Read the passages carefully and select the quote that supports the idea in the question.

​Evaluate text evidence:

Multiple Choice

Which passage from the Article best supports the idea that the Pilgrims were willing to take risks to gain religious freedom?

• …[T]he ship's captain called the authorities. They were thrown in jail for a while. They weren't ready to give up yet, though. They plotted another escape and got out of England. For a while, it was all good in the Holland 'hood.

• Lucky for them, their first Native visitor, Samoset, eventually showed up and asked for a drink. And he spoke English! The Mayflower clan found out Samoset learned English from European fishermen he'd met out and about.

• …The Pilgrims planned to settle near the Hudson River on land owned by the Virginia Company. They didn't plan on being blown off course and ending up in New England instead…[T]hey decided to scrap the original plan and just settle already.  

• …[T]here was a little bit too much freedom for [the Pilgrims] in the Dutch Republic. Sure, they got to do their thing. But that meant other people could, too. Some didn't want their kids around all that "loosey-goosey" liberty.