Happy Thanksgiving!


Thanksgiving will be here in the blink of an eye! Thanksgiving is an annual national holiday marked by religious observances and a traditional meal including turkey. The holiday honors a harvest festival celebrated by the Pilgrims in 1621, and is held in the United States on the fourth Thursday in November. My favorite part of Thanksgiving is getting together with my family and eating a ton of delicious food! Traditional Thanksgiving food includes: turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, and pumpkin pie. My favorite thing to eat on Thanksgiving is the turkey and my mother's homemade sweet potato pie. I cannot wait to see my relatives and eat a delicious Thanksgiving meal!

Vocabulary
In the blink of an eye (idiom)- something happens/is done soon or very quickly
Annual (adjective)- occurring once every year
Observances (noun)- an act performed for religious or ceremonial reasons
Traditional (adjective)- habitually done, used, or found
Honors (verb)- pay public respect to
Harvest (noun)- the process or period of gathering in crops
Pilgrims (noun)- one who journeys in foreign lands
Relatives (noun)- a person connected by blood or marriage.


Vocabulary Exercise

Grammar Point
The passage above uses exclamation points to emphasize excitement. Exclamation points, are punctuation used at the end of a sentence. They are meant to display admiration or express excitement, astonishment, or some other strong emotion. 

For example: 
"Thanksgiving will be here in the blink of an eye!"
"I cannot wait to see my relatives and eat a delicious Thanksgiving meal!"



Grammar Exercise
Write a paragraph in which you discuss 3 things you are thankful for. Be sure to use exclamation points to display excitement and emotion in your writing.

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    The First Thanksgiving, HISTORY: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WumiRK06Yqw



Comments

  1. Teacher: JackieNovember 25, 2019 at 8:48 AM

    Nice entry! Thanksgiving will be new to all ESL students. It's great if you can do some parts of the meal for your students. Some will not be able to celebrate it because of poverty or because their families don't know how to in their first couple of years.

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