© 2020 by Vicki Whiting, Editor Jeff Schinkel, Graphics Vol. 36, No. 51 Think About It! In the 1600s, the Wampanoag Nation had about Today’s Kid Scoop provides two different points of seventy thousand people living in 67 villages. view about the coming of the Pilgrims to North This map shows some of them. The large print America. shows the Wampanoag name of a village. The small print gives the modern name. Use the newspaper to understand different points of view. hen the Select one article from today’s newspaper and Pilgrims MASSACHUSETTS arrived at what is identify two people or groups of people affected by now Plymouth, PAMET the news in the article. Truro Massachusetts, TITICUT PATUXET they met native Bridgewater Plymouth Write one or more sentences telling each person or peoples who had NAMASKET group’s point of view about the news. lived in the area COHANNET Middleborough for thousands of Taunton years. Their name, AGAWAM Main topic of article: Wampanoag, SEEKONK NAUSET means “People of ASSONET Wareham MANOMET Wellfleet MATTAPUSIT Bourne the First Light.” Swansea This name was APTUXCET POCASSET chosen because POKANOKET CUMMAQUID Bristol Fall River MANNAMOYIK they lived on the MASHPEE Barnstable Chatham Person or group #1: east coast and ACUSHNET RHODE New Bedford they received the light of dawn ISLAND before anyone to AQUIDNEK the west. SAKONNET Little Compton NAUSHON ATLANTIC Point of view: OCEAN CAPOWAK Can you find the Martha’s Vineyard CHAPPAQUIDDIK region shown on AQUINNAH the map at right Gay Head on a U.S. map? NANTUCKET Standards Link: History: Based on map developed by Nanepashemet for the Plimoth Plantation Wampanoag Program. Recreated with permission of Plimoth Plantation, Inc. Students understand the reasons that Americans celebrate certain holidays.

This trouble-making turkey Celebrations of thanksgiving in North America has taken some words out did not ______with the Pilgrims at ______of these paragraphs. Can in 1621. Gratefulness was (and is) a very Person or group #2: you find where each word important part of ______life. belongs? The Wampanoag have held ______to give thanks since ______times. And not just for a good ______. The Wampanoag Point of view: give thanks for the birth of a child and other Find It! good fortune. In fact, giving thanks was the Give each person at ______reason for Wampanoag celebrations. your Thanksgiving feast a page of the newspaper. See who In November of 1620, exploring colonists found corn buried in the ground. can find each of They called corn “Indian wheat.” Here are two viewpoints on this same event: the following in his or her paper: • An odd number The arrival of colonists • The word Standards Link: Writing Applications: Use strategies (e.g., point of from Europe was seen “thanks” view) to write for a variety of purposes. differently by different groups of people. The • Something to Wampanoag were be thankful for cautious and unsure about • A delicious food these new people. The • A Thanksgiving colonists were relieved to event be done with their long • A good place Thanks for always being voyage, but afraid of to visit such a great friend, Chris! what might lie ahead. Standards Link: Research: Use the newspaper to Standards Link: History: Students understand the history of how communities in North locate information. America varied long ago. © 2003 Plimoth Plantation, Inc.

WAMPANOAG I am the shape of all things given by The Creator. VOYAGE HARVEST I have no end and no beginning. W N E R U T A N P E I am the shape of life itself. COAST H A S F O R T U N E … telling a friend you’re thankful PILGRIMS they’re your friend! T T M O E T N P L S What am I? CREATOR PLYMOUTH U I I P G W A O E T NATIVE O V R H A R V E S T 16 9 6 15 9 13 17 PLENTY M E G D Y N D A R F CORN Y F L L O C O R N C Thanksgiving 21 - 5 = A 11 + 6 = E 21 - 8 = L DAWN L I I I V C G A H T 18 - 9 = C 14 - 8 = I 24 - 9 = R FORTUNE P L P L E N T Y G S I am thankful for … SEED Complete this sentence. Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recongized identical Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Follow simple written directions. LIFE words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns. NIE SPONSORS

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