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Don't Know Much About the Pilgrims

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After reviewing fifteen children's literature books about the Pilgrims; I found the one I wanted to teach. Don't Know Much About the Pilgrims by Kenneth C. Davis. This book is a fun for children

 to read and learn about. My fifth grader enjoyed reading it for fun.

 

In Don't Know much about the Pilgrims, the students explore the facts about the Pilgrims voyage to America and their experiences the first year.The story is told by answering the question headings on

each page. The book includes fun data that children would find interesting. 

On the following pages of this wiki you will find vocabulary and lessons specific for this book as well

 as resources for expansion. 

Kenneth C. Davis on Don't Know Much About the Pilgrims                          

 

What's your favorite part of Thanksgiving dinner? The turkey? The stuffing and mashed potatoes? If you're like me, the answer is easy. It's the cranberries and pumpkin pie! Well, guess what? When the Pilgrims sat down to enjoy their big harvest dinner in America about four hundred years ago, they didn't eat many of the things we like to eat today. The holiday menu we love is just one of the many wrong ideas that some Americans have about Thanksgiving Day and the people we celebrate each November, the Pilgrims of Plymouth Plantation.

Every year in the fall, schools and stores are decorated with cardboard cutouts of Pilgrims dressed in clunky shoes and funny black hats. That is all some people know about this group of English men, women, and children who sailed to America long ago, in search of a better life. But the real story of who these people were, what they looked like, why they came to America, and how they lived is very different. This is a true tale of the hard days of hunger, cold, and danger. It's an incredible story about real people, especially children, who struggled to survive in the early days of America, and about the Native Americans who helped them. When you've finished reading Don't Know Much About the Pilgrims, and know what life was like for a Pilgrim child four hundred years ago, you will have a real reason to be thankful—you'll be glad that you weren't around back then!

Davis, K. C. (unknown). Authors Essay. Retrieved November 6, 2010, from Haper Collins Publishers: http://www.harpercollins.com/author/authorExtra.aspx?authorID=14413&isbn13=9780060286095&displayType=bookessay

 


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