a theme based on the seasons of the year‚ for example in the winter I would do a Christmas and a Thanksgiving word wall. For the Thanksgiving theme I would use words such as pilgrim‚ harvest‚ Mayflower‚ colonists‚ autumn‚ settlers‚ yams‚ Plymouth‚ Massachusetts‚ November‚ puritans‚ voyage‚ Native American‚ squash‚ Fall‚ casserole‚ tradition‚ treaty‚ celebration‚ and gratitude. Another strategy I would use in my classroom is doing a sight word wall the help ELL and special needs students. I would
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Mayflower left Plymouth‚ England‚ carrying on board 102 passengers. Of those were assortments of religious secessionists venturing to a new home to freely practice their faith and others lured in by the false promises of prosperity and land ownership of the New World. After an uncomfortable crossing from England‚ the ship dropped anchor near the edge of Cape Cod‚ far north from the initial destination at the mouth of the Hudson River. A month later‚ the Mayflower crossed the Massachusetts Bay‚ where
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build shelters. Already weakened by their 2 month voyage‚ most of the passengers failed to survive the first few months in their new home. Native people called the Wampanoag a local tribe where the Pilgrims made land fall already lived in today’s Massachusetts Bay area. They helped the people new in their land by showing them the knowledge of local crops and navigation within the forest for hunting. The pilgrims shelter “homes “were modeled after the English cottage. The cottage is built using
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Massachusetts and Virginia Colonies Massachusetts and Virginia were two of the early colonies in the new world. Although these two colonies originated from the same place they are very different. Virginia needed slaves for labor while the citizens of Massachusetts worked in production and had less slaves or indentured servants. Virginia traded cash crops such as tobacco and the colonists in Massachusetts build ships and traded fur among other things. While Massachusetts and Virginia were both
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Jamestown and Massachusetts colonized those different areas to establish a colony in the New World and look for resources to in return to England’s investments. However‚ Jamestown and Massachusetts both had more early problems than successes in their colonies. One major problem was both colonies faced harsh weather conditions. Along with limited natural resources. Also‚ they had problems with people coming from England to try to take control of the colonies. One major example that both Massachusetts and Jamestown
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of the Massachusetts Bay Colony was simultaneously theocratic‚ democratic‚ oligarchic‚ and authoritarian in different ways. The Puritans founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1628 and wanted a well-established government‚ but they ended up mixing all of these together. This colony was important because it was one of the first provincial and true governments to be introduced into the colonies. It also provided an example to other colonies to base their governments on. The Massachusetts Bay Colony
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else. People will go through all sorts of difficulties and obstacles to make it in life. Striving for wealth and power is something that brings both positive and negative results. During the colonial period the development of the Virginia and Massachusetts colonies was greatly influenced by the effects of the search for riches and power. Each area had common basic interests‚ but the ways in which they went about attaining these goals were in most views different. Prosperity was the major goal of
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drove England’s economy into the ground‚ some Puritans joined up with entrepreneurs and created the Massachusetts Bay Company (MBC). The MBC soon colonized the Massachusetts Bay area‚ which was run by these non-separatist Puritans. This colony of mostly Puritans did not agree with some of the ways other colonies managed their settlements and took control of them‚ one of these colonies being the Plymouth colony of separatist Puritans who came by way of the Dutch. Although there were colonies that disagreed
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the greatest of empires and ideologies. When it came to the pilgrims that statement was all but true. Scorn and hatred was thrown their way at every turn in their lives‚ however it never seemed to discourage them. In William Bradford’s journal of Plymouth Plantation‚ the real-life account of the pilgrimage of the separatists was recorded entailing the grueling life that the men and women of the faith endured. It was felt strongly in their community that living a pure life would ensure that God would
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second Monday of October in Canada and on the fourth Thursday of November in the USA. Thanksgiving in Canada falls on the same day as Columbus Day in the USA. The first thanksgiving was in 1621 in United States‚ it was at Plymouth city in the present day Massachusetts. Also there are events about an earlier harvest day celebration on the continent by Spanish and the feast and thanksgiving in this year was promoted with good harvest. The people didn’t achieve the good quantity of harvest so
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