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USA History / Mr.Saindon
Monday, September 18
to
Friday, September 22
This week we will focus on Life in the colonies:
Objectives:
√ What motivated people to move to the colonies?
√ Understand how settlers' backgrounds influenced their values, priorities, and daily lives.
√ Imagine typical daily life for different families in colonial America in the late 1700s.√ What would your religious life be like if you were a colonist?
√ Describe your life on a farm?√ What rights did you have living under your government in London, England?
National Holiday: Thanksgiving
The True Story of Thanksgiving
The Mouse on the Mayflower
The Plymouth Plantation: The First Thanksgiving
Squanto and the Miracle of Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving Promise
Click on George Washington and go to the National Archives to see Washington's proclamation naming Thursday, November 26, 1789, as an official holiday of "sincere and humble thanks."
Then...read about Lincoln's declaration...and then find out what President Roosevelt did....
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