THE STORY OF THE FIRST THANKSGIVING The story of .. is the story of the ..

Fathers and their Thanksgiving feast at .. , Massachusetts . Those religious people decided to embark on a pilgrimage to the ... AMERICA hoping to find religious ... were... in England. they

They left Plymouth in.. on a ship called the .. on 6, Mayflower carried 102 passengers on board . . The

It was crowded , cold and uncomfortable. The sea was rough and they spent 2 months sailing across the .. Ocean. They and landed at Cape reached their new land in

Cod, off the coast of what is now called ... They were tired and cold from their long, and hungry too. , in

, they sailed to .. Rock and settled there because it offered an excellent harbor an plenty of natural resources. , the local Indians were non-hostile. the terrible winter of , many of the settlers became sick and almost half of them had died. , the .. Americans, the Wampanoag helped the .. survive , teaching them how to grow ..(like Indian corn) and wheat , hunt wild .. and store them for the hard days . , by the next winter, they had raised enough crop to keep them alive. , in , they decided to invite the friendly Native .. to thank

them for the good. .The .. Thanksgiving was a .. feast celebrated by the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag in the ... of . Before they ate the .. and the.. thanked.. together for all his goodness. the story goes of the first Thanksgiving ... in Plymouth colony . , Thanksgiving is celebrated Thursday in I t is a time for American people to give .. and to be .. for all they the good things they have received during the Year. famili es get .. and have a big feast . and sit around the table and say.. and tell Thanksgiving ... !

TASK : Fill in the blanks with the missing words related to Thanksgiving . Fill in the boxes with the appropriate link words or time markers.

Today

1620 -1621 1620 September 6, 1620

in 1621 1621 on the 4th

Consequently as

Eventually

Luckily

Following

And so

Thats the reason why On top of that After church and parades A month later December November

four hundred years ago.

by springtime