Thanksgiving - Reading Comprehension
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Thanksgiving - Reading Comprehension
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English, World Languages
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8th Grade
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Hard
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Girtler Rosalinde
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This quiz focuses on Thanksgiving as a cultural and historical topic, making it appropriate for 8th grade students studying American traditions and holidays. The questions assess reading comprehension skills through factual recall and detail recognition about Thanksgiving's origins, traditions, and modern celebrations. Students need foundational knowledge of American colonial history, including the relationship between Pilgrims and Native Americans, as well as understanding of how historical events evolve into modern cultural practices. The quiz requires students to distinguish between factual information and common misconceptions, compare celebrations across different countries, and recall specific details about dates, foods, and historical significance. The complexity level demands that students can process informational text and demonstrate comprehension through multiple-choice responses that test both literal understanding and inferential thinking about cultural traditions. Created by Rosalinde Girtler, an English teacher in Italy who teaches grade 8. This quiz serves as an excellent tool for introducing American cultural literacy to students, particularly those learning English as a foreign language who need exposure to significant American traditions. Teachers can effectively use this assessment as a post-reading activity following a Thanksgiving-themed text, as homework to reinforce cultural learning, or as a formative assessment to gauge student understanding of American historical and cultural concepts. The quiz works well for warmup activities during November lessons or as review material before discussions about comparative cultural celebrations. This assessment aligns with standards CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RST.6-8.7 for integrating visual and textual information and CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.6-8.2 for determining central ideas in informational texts about historical and cultural topics.
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1.
MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
Thanksgiving is a holiday in....
Australia
Canada
the USA
Great Britain
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Thanksgiving is celebrated in Canada and in the USA on the same weekend.
TRUE
FALSE
Tags
CCSS.RI.7.7
CCSS.RI.8.7
CCSS.RI.9-10.7
CCSS.RL.7.7
CCSS.RL.8.7
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Thanksgiving has been an official holiday in the USA since
1621
1863
1957
Tags
CCSS.RI.7.3
CCSS.RI.7.5
CCSS.RI.8.3
CCSS.RI.8.5
CCSS.RI.9-10.5
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Americans celebrate Thanksgiving every year
the third Thursday in November.
the fourth Thursday in November.
the last Thursday in November.
Tags
CCSS.RI.7.3
CCSS.RI.7.5
CCSS.RI.8.3
CCSS.RI.8.5
CCSS.RI.9-10.3
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Americans think that the first Thanksgiving was celebrated in 1621 in a small town called Plymouth.
TRUE
FALSE
Tags
CCSS.RL.11-12.6
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The first people to celebrate Thanksgiving were called.....
Indians
Pilgrims
Americans
Tags
CCSS.RI.5.5
CCSS.RI.6.5
CCSS.RI.7.5
CCSS.RI.8.5
CCSS.RI.9-10.5
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Thanksgiving was celebrated to thank the Native Americans..
... because they taught them to grow corn and to catch fish.
... because they taught them to build houses.
... because they helped them out with food during a hard winter.
Tags
CCSS.RI. 9-10.2
CCSS.RI.8.2
CCSS.RL.7.2
CCSS.RL.8.2
CCSS.RL.9-10.2
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