pumpkin pie

There’s turkey and dressing, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes and gravy, some good veggies, and best of a

• sauce that is poured over food

• a mixture of foods stuffed in a turkey before cooking

• leftovers

...until today when it is that delicious pumpkin pie your mom bakes as the special dessert for Thanksgiving dinner

• meal eaten at noon

• meal eaten in the morning

• sweet treat eaten after a meal

The name ‘pumpkin’ originated from a very old Greek word, ‘pepon’, and over centuries was finally changed into ‘pumpkin’ by the early American colonists.

• period of a thousand years

• periods of 100 years

• periods of 10 years

You’ve probably always had pumpkin pie on Thanksgiving, and maybe Christmas, too, but where did pumpkin come from? No, not in the local market!

• near home

• far away from home

• near water

They also used them to rub on a snakebite, because they believed the seeds would draw the snake venom (poison) out of the wound.

• skin

• to heal

• injury

Sometimes they even wove them into the long grasses that some tribes used to build their wigwams

• dome-shaped hut that some Native Americans lived in

• school where children were taught

• type of food eaten by Native Americans