Г.П. Маркова

Внеклассная работа.

Праздники на английском

языке.

Для преподавателей школ

и гимназий.

Москва 2016 г.

Российская академия образования. Институт педагогики социальной работы. Г.П. Маркова Внеклассная работа. Праздники на английском языке. Методическое пособие для преподавателей школ и гимназий
Москва 2016 г.


Г.П. Маркова. Внеклассная работа. Праздники на

английском языке. Методическое пособие для

преподавателей школ и гимназий.

Данное методическое пособие предназначено для

преподавателей школ по оказанию помощи в

проведении внеклассной работы по английскому

языку. Материал пособия может быть

использован, прежде всего, для организации

тематических вечеров, а так же для кружковой

работы и факультативных занятий по

английскому языку в рамках внеклассной

работы по предмету иностранный язык.

Москва 2016г.


“ William Shakespeare”

(1564-1616)

“There is a history in all men’s lives”


Методические рекомендации.

Как известно, одной из наиболее удачных форм внеклассной работы по

иностранному языку являются тематические вечера. Своей занимательностью

они вызывают интерес учащихся, а подготовка к вечеру позволяет привлечь к

работе весь класс. Проведение подобных мероприятий, безусловно, требует

большой подготовки со стороны учителя и учащихся, но они чрезвычайно

полезны как в общеобразовательном, так и в языковом отношении.

Материал,

включенный

в

пособие,

дает

учителю

возможность шире и

подробнее

познакомить

учащихся

с

некоторыми

фактами

из

жизни

и

творчества великого английского драматурга и поэта Вильяма Шекспира.

В пособие включены стихи, сонеты, отрывки из литературных произведений,

игры, занимательный материал, песни, которые могут быть использованы при

подготовке вечера.

Очень интересной представляется рубрика "Do you know that..”, которая

дает дополнительную информацию о творчестве данного автора. Если есть

возможность, хорошо организовать книжную выставку. Это могут быть книги

данного писателя на английском или других языках мира. При проведении

викторины подготовить небольшие призы и сразу наградить победителей.

К вечеру рекомендуется подготовить несколько стендов: на одном поместить

фотографии исторических мест с их кратким описанием, на другом портрет, а

также цитаты из его произведений, высказывания о нем; его театр - прошлое и

настоящее.

Следует также продумать оформление зала, использование ТСО, света и

музыки.

Можно использовать карту Великобритании, где отметить Стратфорд-на-

Эйвоне.

Было бы хорошо подготовить карту шекспировских мест в Стратфорде.

До вечера целесообразно было бы провести конкурс на лучшее чтение сонетов

Шекспира.

Можно предложить "пропуском" на вечер цитату из произведений Шекспира

или строку из какого-нибудь произведения.

I Part. Did He Ever Exist?
The great poet and dramatist William Shakespeare is often called "Our National

Bard", "The Immortal Poet of Nature" and "The great Unknown".

Little indeed can be told about his life with certainty, even the year of his

birth is much doubted. Yet, a patient of the 16

th

century has helped some scholars if

not to restore his biography, at least to bring back the personality of the dramatist,

who being the greatest was at the same time the humblest of poets.

Shakespeare's

native

place

was

Stratford

on

Avon,

a

little

town in

Warwickshire, which is generally described as being in the middle of England.

John Shakespeare, the poet's father, was engaged in the wool industry. He had

some pasture land of his own, and also rented a house.

Some documents of the time indicate that William's father was illiterate; he

marked his name by a cross because he was unable to write it.

The Shakespeares had eight children, four girls and four boys, but their two

eldest daughters died at an early age .William was the third child.

William was a boy of a free and open nature, much like his mother who was

a woman of a lively disposition.

There was a free Grammar School at Stratford. The priest of the church was

also schoolmaster. At this school W. Shakespeare learnt to read and spell and was

taught his first Latin.

In Shakespeare's time there was much guess-work in the way English

children

were taught to read. Reading was the same as learning by heart. If, for example,

the children had to learn the word "BAR", the first two letters were given - BA, the

last letter R was replaced by sing shaped like a horn - '(BA'). The pupil had to guess

this last missing consonant. A book of such exercises in his play "Love's Labour's

Lost" ("Love's Labour Is Lost").

However it would be a mistake to suppose that the days of Shakespeare's

boyhood were dull and lifeless.

The visits of companies of players aroused the whole town to excitement. Small

companies

of

travelling

players

hired

only

the principal actors, and when they

gave a play many boys of the town were given a chance to help them.


He was no one - illiterate

good-for-nothing,

A poacher from Stratford

terrorizing woodmen

And merry friend in company

of

Falstaf.

Who else was be? Comedian

or king,

And old gray witch with

exorcism of spoiling,

A Venice woman, Roman

conspirator.

Or all those where an unfinished

role?


William Shakespeare was still a boy when he began to set and

produce plays. Though he had to work hard in his father's business

nothing would make him give up his hobby.

Along with his first plays at the village of Shottery his first poems

appear. Writing verse was very common in Shakespeare's days. It was

called sonnetising. Even the young girl Ann Hathaway expressed her

feelings for Shakespeare in verse. Ann and William met by the river

Avon, and she called him "Sweet Swan of Avon".

When Ann and William married, he gave her a golden ring and a

poem. Called:
A Gift to His Beloved Anna, from W.S. Within this golden circlet's space. Thy ivory fingers formed to clip How many tender vows have place Sealed at the altar on my lip.
Ann bore him three children.

Those were difficult days for the Shakespeares. They lost all their

property. William Shakespeare was asked by his old schoolmaster

Barton to be assistant master at the Staratford Grammar School. But

the low salary of a teacher was of little help to make a living.

Shakespeare decided to go to London and enter upon a living in

which his abilities as an actor and playwright could be fully develo-

ped.

(It is better to present it with music, a portrait of W. Shakespeare on

the wall, a video film, some pictures or posters).

II Part
London had many playhouses, William was ready to enter upon

any artistic work, and soon he got it in "The lord Chamberlain's

Company".

Shakespeare's first work was "to coach" the younger players,

which meant to teach them the parts they were about to play. Then he

was asked "to hold the Horses", that is to say he had to direct the

actors when their turn came to appear on the stage.

Shakespeare was a very good actor himself but, since it often

happens that the director of a play takes the shorter part for himself,

leaving the principal roles to others. As we know Shakespeare himself

only played the Ghost of Hamlet's father in "Hamlet".

Soon his own comedies were staged, and some time later his

historical plays began to appear.

Shakespeare's immediate aim was to give satisfaction to his

audiences.

'AS YOU LIKE IT' (by W. Shakespeare) Act II, Scene 7.

All the world's a stage,
And all the men women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms. And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel, And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, Sighing like furnace woful ballad Made to his mistress' eyebrow. The a soldier, Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice, In fair round belly with good capon lin'd, With eyes severe, and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances; And so he plays his part. The six ages shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon With spectacles on nose and pouch on side, His youthful hose well sav’d a world too wide For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, That ends his strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.

"Hamlet" is one of Shakespeare's greatest creations, it is considered

the hardest of his works to understand. The source of the plot can be

found in a Danish chronicle written around 1200. The "mysterious"

element in Shakespeare's play is found in the complex character of

Hamlet himself.

Hamlet.
To be, or not to be - that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows to outrageous fortune Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And by opposing end them? To die, to sleep; No more? And by a sleep, to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh in heir to. 'Tis a consumation Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep. To sleep - perchance to dream. Ay, there's the rub. For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil Must give us pause. There's the respect That makes calamity of so long life. For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, Th'oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of th'unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin? Who would these fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life. But that the dread of something after death - The undiscovered country, from whose bourn No traveller returns - puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all. And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pitch and moment With this regards their currents turn away And lose the name of action. - Soft you now, The fair Ophelia - Nymph, in try orisons Be all my sins remembered?
Ophelia.
Good my lord, How does your honour for this many a day?
Hamlet. 1 humbly thank you; well, well, well.
Ophelia.
My lord, I have remembrances of yours That I have longed long to re-deliver. I pray you now receive them.
Hamlet.
No,
not i.
I never gave you aught.
Ophelia.
My honoured lord, you know right well you did. And with them words of so sweet breath composed As made the things more rich. Their perfume lost Take these again; for to the noble mind Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. There my lord.
Hamlet.
Ha, ha. Are you honest?
Ophelia.
My lord?
Hamlet
Are you fair?
Ophelia.
What means your lordship?
Hamlet.
That if you be honest and fair - your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty.
Ophelia.
Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce than with honesty?
Hamlet.
Ay, truly. For the power of beauty will sooner transform honesty from what it is to a bawd, than the force of honesty can translate beauty into his likeness. This was sometime a paradox - but now the time gives it proof. I did love you once.
Ophelia.
Indeed, my lord, you made me believed so.
Hamlet.
You should not have believed me. For virtue cannot so innoculate our old stock but we shall relish of it. I loved you not.
Ophelia.
I was the more deceived.
Hamlet.
Get thee to a nunnery. Why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent honest, but yet I could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me. I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious - with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in. What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves, all. Believe none of us. Go thy ways to a nunnery. Where's your father?
Ophelia.
At home, my lord.
Hamlet.
Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play
the fool nowhere but in's own house. Farewell.
Ophelia.
О help him you sweet heavens!
Hamlet.
If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunnery - go, farewell. Or, if thou wilt needs marry, marry a fool; for wise men know well enough what monsters you make of them. To a nunnery go: and quickly too, farewell.
Ophelia.
О heavenly powers, restore him!
Shakespeare's histories are more closely related to his tragedies than

to the comedies. He deals with themes in historical process, the laws of

historical development and the nature of power.
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears: I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones; So let it be with Caesar! The noble Brutus Hath told you Caesar was ambitious: If it were so, it was a grievous fault; And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it. Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest (For Brutus is an honourable man. So are they all, all honourable men), Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral. He was my friend, faithful and just to me, But Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man. He hath brought many captives home to Rome, Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill; Did this is Caesar seem ambitious? When that the poor hath cried, Caesar hath wept; Ambitious should be made of sterner stuff; Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And, sure, he is an honourable man. You all did see, that on the Lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition? Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And, sure, he is an honourable man. I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke.
But here 1 am to speak what 1 do know. You all did love him once, not without cause; What cause withholds you then to mourn for him? О judgement, thou art fled to brutish beasts And men have lost their reason! - Bear with me, My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, And I must pause till it come back to me. Julius Caesar.
Quotations from Shakespeare.

"AH the world's a stage,
and all the men and women merely players" ("Весь мир - театр. В нем женщины, мужчины - все актеры"), the beginning of speech in the play "As You Like It".
"Brutus is an honourable man"
("Он римлянин был самый благо- родный"), a statement made several times in a speech by Mark Antony in the play "Julius Caesar".
"Et tu, Brute?"
("И ты, о Брут!"), a Latin sentence meaning "Even you, Brutus" from the play "Julius Caesar". "There's a
divinity that shapes our ends"
("... то божество намере- ния наши довершает"), a line spoken by the title character in the play "Hamlet".
"Every inch a king"
("Король, король - от головы до ног!"), a phra- se used by the title character in the play "King Lire" to describe himself to his friend, the earl of Gloucester.
"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears"
("Друзья, со- граждане, внемлите мне"), the first line of a speech from the play "Julius Caesar".
"Get thee to a nunnery"
("Уйди в монастырь"), words from the play "Hamlet".
"Lord, what fools these mortals be!"
("Как безумен род людской!"), a line from the play "A Midsummer Night's Dream".
"Neither a borrower nor a lender be"
("В долг не бери и взаймы не давай"), a line from the play "Hamlet".
"Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?"
("Ромео! Ромео, о зачем же ты Ромео!"), words from the play "Romeo and Juliet".
"To be, or not to be"
("Быть или не быть - [таков вопрос]"), words from the play "Hamlet". (You can make it like a game: who knows more quotations from Shakespeare's plays or use them when the children enter party as passing words.)

Do You Know That.,.
... William Shakespeare was born on April 23, 1564 and died also on this date, April 23,1616? ... John Shakespeare, the great playwright's father, could not write? ... William Shakespeare left the Grammar School where he studied when he was 13 years old and never went to school again? ... William Shakespeare traveled up to London on foot without much money in his pocket because he wanted to become an actor? ... William Shakespeare began to work in London holding horses of those Londoners who came to see the plays at the theater? ... William Shakespeare is called the Bard of Avon? ... the Shakespeare Memorial Theater came to the Soviet Union and showed several plays by Shakespeare among which were Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, and Twelfth Night? ... the works of William Shakespeare have been published in Russia in more than 2,000,000 copies in 27 languages. (For a break to make a short pause during the party you can arrange a game using Shakespeare's quotations or the part "Do You Know That...").
OTHELLO, THE MOOR OF VENICE.

ACT II

Scene I. Seaport Town in Cyprus. A Platform.

Othello:
O, my fair warrior.
Desdemona:
My dear Othello.
Othello:
It gives me wonder, great as my content To see you here before me. Oh my soul's joy: If after every tempest, come such calms, May the winds blow, till they have waken'd death: And let the labouring bark climb hills of seas Olympos high: and duck again as low, As hell's from Heaven. If it were now to die. 'Twere now to be most happy. For I fear, My soul hath her content so absolute,
That not another comfort like to this, Succeeds in unknown fate.
Desdemona:
The Heavens forbid But that our loves And comforts should increase Even as our days do grow.
Othello:
Amen to that (sweet Powers) I cannot speak enough of this content. It stops me here: it is to mach of joy. And this, and this the greatest discords be. They kiss. That e're our hearts shall make.
Jago:
Oh you are well tun'd now: But I will set down the pegs that make this music, as honest as I am.
Othello:
Come: let us to the Castle. News (Friends) our wars are done: The Turks are drown'd. How dose my old acquaintance of this Isle? (Honey) you shall be well desird in Cyprus, I have found great love amongst them. Oh my sweet, I prattle out of fashion, and I dote In mine own comforts. I prithee, good Jago, Go to the Bay, and disembark my coffers: Bring thou the Master to the Citadel, He is a good one, and his worthiness Does challenge much respect. Come, Desdemona, Once more well met at Cyprus. Exeunt Othello and Desdemona.
Jago:
Do thou meet me presently at the Harbour. Come thither, if thou best valiant, (as they say base men being in love, have then a nobility in their natures, more then is native to them) list me; the Lieutenant tonight watched on the Court of Guard. First, I must tell thee this: Desdemona, is directly in love with him. Roderigo: With him? Why, 'tis not possible. (Shakespeare W. OTHELLO. -London: Penguin Books, 1994.) 1Ш SONNETS Shakespeare's sonnets can't be placed among his best works; only a few of them may be placed among the best English sonnets in general; but they occupy a unique place in the Shakespearian heritage, because they are his only lyrical pieces, the only things he has, it seems, written about himself. The three main characters are the Poet, his Friend, and the Dark Lady.

A sonnet.

xc
Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now; Now, while the world is bent my deeds to cross, Join with the spite of fortune, make me bow, And do not drop in for an after-loss: Ah! Do not, when my heart hath 'scap'd this sorrow, Come in the rearward of a conquer'd woe; Give not a windy night a rainy morrow, To linger out a purpos'd overthrow. If thou wilt leave me, do not leave me last. When other petty griefs have done their spite, But in the onset come: so shall I taste At first the very worst of fortune's might; And other strains of woe, which now seem so. Уж если ты разлюбишь, - так теперь, Теперь, когда весь мир со мной в раздоре Будь самой горькой из моих потерь, Но только не последней каплей горя! И если скорбь дано мне превозмочь, Не нанеси удара из засады. Пусть бурная не разрешится ночь Дождливым утром - утром без отрады. Оставь меня, но не в последний миг, Когда от мелких бед я ослабею. Оставь сейчас, чтоб сразу я постиг, Что это горе всех невзгод больнее. Что нет невзгод, а есть одна беда -Твоей любви лишиться навсегда. Перевод С. Маршака
91
Some glory in the birth, some in the skill, Some in their wealth, some in their body forth; Some in their garments, though new-fangled ill; Some in their hawks and hounds, some in their horse; And every humour hath his adjunct pleasure, Wherein it finds a joy above the rest; But these particulars are not my measure, All these I better in one general best.
Thy love is better than high birth to me, Richer than wealth, prouder than garments' cost, Of more delight than hawks and horses be; And, having thee, of all men's pride 1 boast. Wretched in this alone, that thou mayst take All this away, and me most wretched make. Кто хвалится родством своим со знатью, Кто силой, кто блестящим галуном, Кто кошельком, кто пряжками на платье. Кто соколом, собакой, скакуном. Есть у людей различные пристрастья, Но каждому милей всего одно. А у меня особенное счастье, — В нем остальное все заключено. Твоя любовь, мой друг, дороже клада, Почетнее короны королей, Наряднее богатого наряда, Охоты соколиной веселей. Ты можешь все отнять, чем я владею, И в этот миг я сразу обеднею. Перевод С. Я. Маршака 60 Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that witch goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend. Nativity, once in the main of light, Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crowe'd, Crooked eclipses "gainst his glory fight, And Time that gave doth now his gift confound. Time doth transfix the flourish set on you End delves the parallels in beauty's brow, Feeds on the rarities of nature's truth, And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow: And yet to times in hope my verse shall stand, Praising thy worth, despite his cruet hand.
Shakespeare's Quiz
& Puzzle.

Royal Personages.
Fill in the first manes 1. ..., Queen of Denmark 2. ..., King of Naples 3. ..., Count of Rousillion 4. ..., Prince of Bohemia 5. ..., Queen of the Amazons 6. ..., Duke of Milan 7. ..., King of Sicilia 8. ..., Prince of Tyre 9. ..., King of Troy 10. ..., Queen of the Goths 11. ..., Prince of Arragon 12....,Duke of Illyria
Do You Know Shakespeare?

1.
What girl falls in love with a man before she sees his face or knows his name? 2. Who looks at his hands and says, 'This is a sorry sight'?
3.
What character says he may turn pale with anger, sickness, or hunger but not with love? 4. Who calls his own murder 'foul and most unnatural'?
5.
Who says as he dies: 'I kiss'd thee ere I kill’d thee: no way but this, Killing myself, to die upon a kiss'? 6. In which play do three males wear feminine clothes? 7. In which play do three females dress as males?
8.
What character is willing to buy, sell, talk and walk with his enemies, but not eat, drink nor pray with them? 9. Whose last word are, 'Thus with a kiss I die'?
10.
Who says, 'How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is. To have a thankless child!'?
11.
What girl tells a young man when he first kisses her that he kisses 'by the book'? 12. Which father has three daughters?
13.
Who is the villain whom everyone trusts and no one suspects until the end? 14. What is it a philosopher cannot endure patiently?
15.
Who shortly before he dies says he has a joyful heart because he never, in all his life, found a man false to him? 16. Who 'loved not wisely but too well'?
17. Who in speaking of his wife says, 'She is my goods, my chattel, my field, my bam. My horse, my ox, my ass, my any thing?'
Answers:

1.

Juliet, in Romeo and Juliet.

2.

Macbeth.

3.

Benedict, in Much Ado About Nothing.

4.

The Ghost, in Hamlet.

5.

Othello, in Othello.

6.

The Merry Wives of Windsor.

7.

The Merchant of Venice.

8.

Shylock, in The Merchant of Venice.

9.

Romeo* sin Romeo and Juliet.

10.King Lear.

11.

Juliet, in Romeo and Juliet.

12.King Lear.

13.

lago, \n Othello.

14.

Toothache, in Much Ado A bout Nothing.

15.

Marcus Brutus, in Julius Caesar.

16. Othello.

17.

Petruchio, in The Taming of the Shrew.



Extra – curriculum

work

“Thanksgiving

Day”



Маркова Галина Петровна,


учитель английского языка

ГБОУ гимназия №1529

Москва

2011


Thanksgiving Day
Themes and Thoughts.

Gratitude, Thankfulness, Compassion, Sharing, Religion.

-Alice W. Brotherton.

It is better to give than to receive.

- Proverb.

Harvest comes not every day, though it comes every year.

- Thomas Fuller.

A Thanksgiving Thought.

The day 1 give thanks for having a nose

Is Thanksgiving Day, for do you suppose

That Thanksgiving dinner would taste as good

If you couldn't smell it? I don't think it would.

Could apple pies baking - turkey that's basting

Not be for smelling? Just be for tasting? It's a

cranberry-cinnamon-onion bouquet! Be

thankful for noses on Thanksgiving Day.

We laugh and we talk,

oh! she makes such a fuss

as she bustles about

cooking dinner for us.

When we sit at the table

and Daddy says grace,

there's a beautiful smile

on my grandmother's

face.

Though the weather is windy

and chilly and gray, our

family is happy this

Thanksgiving Day.

Jack Prelutsky.


Traditions and Customs.

Thanksgiving Day comes on the 4

th

Thursday in November. It is a

legal holiday celebrated throughout the United States. People of all

faiths celebrate this day. They give thanks for the many good things in

their lives.

This is a family holiday. Families come together from near and far.

In some places special religious services are held in the morning. Then

comes the traditional feast. Turkey with stuffing is the main dish. It is

served

with sweet potatoes, squash, cranberry sauce, and pumpkin

pie. Apple cider is the drink of the day.

Football is the most popular game on this day. For many schools, the

Thanksgiving Day game is the most important one of the year. Usually

there are several football games to watch on TV.

Macy's

department

store

holds

its

annual

Thanksgiving

Day

Parade

in New York City. Celebrities, floats, bands, and balloons

shaped like famous storybook and cartoon characters appear in the

parade.

Santa

Clans

arrives at

the

end.

His

coming

marks

the

beginning of the Christmas season.

Stores, classrooms, and homes are decorated with turkeys, pilgrims,

Indians, wreaths of dried flowers, and vegetables. Horns of plenty are

also very popular.

Charitable organizations serve dinners to needy people. They also

send baskets of food to the elderly and sick.

Background.

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•»

The first Thanksgiving Day was celebrated by the Pilgrims on 1621.

They came from England for religious freedom. They sailed from

Plymouth, England, on September 16, 1620. Their ship was called the

Mayflower.

They

landed

at

Plymouth

Rock,

in

Massachusetts,

on

December 26, 1620.

The first winter was a terrible time. There was much sickness and

starvation. Native Indians taught the Pilgrims how to plant, to fish, to

hunt and how to survive in America. The crops did well, and in the fall

of 1621 the Pilgrims had a great harvest. They were very thankful and

decided to celebrate with a feast. The Pilgrims invited their Indian

friends to share this Thanksgiving feast.

Thanksgiving

was

proclaimed

a

national

day

of

observance

by

Congress in 1941.


Dramatizing.

Dramatize the landing at Plymouth Rock with a "You Are There" or

"1 Was There" program. With your classmates, role-play the Indians

and the Pilgrims. Chose some students to perform the landing of the

ship with their descriptions.

A Thanksgiving Prayer.


An Indian

Song


Use pantomime to show the actions in this active song sung to the tune

of "The Mulberry Bush. "

(Continue with these verses: plant our corn, grind our com, hunt for

food, wash our clothes.)

Ask the children for suggestions as to how to show the actions and

what other activities the Indians might have engaged in.


Thanksgiving Action poem.

When the Pilgrims sailed to this new land,

(Put one arm out to represent land, use the other arm to make a boat

sailing on "bumpy" waves) They met a friendly Indian band. (Claps

hands in a handshake) The Indians taught them to plant, hunt and fish,

(Sow seeds, shoot arrow, cast fishing pole) Then they all had a feast with

many a tasty dish (Make eating gestures and pat stomach contentedly).

Writing and Language Arts.

Compose a poem (by yourself or with the class), using words

related to Thanksgiving. For example.

T-urkey

H-arbor

A-ppreciation

N-~ew World

K—indness

S-ettlement

G-overnor

I-ndians

V-enison

L-nvitation

N-uts

G-obble-gobble


Pilgrim Children.

Pilgrim children worked hard all day.

Pilgrim children had little time to play.

The first child chopped lots of wood.

The second child helped make the family's food.

The third child helped keep the horses fed.

The fourth child made a mattress for his bed.

The fifth child made soap and a candle.

The sixth child turned the meat-roasting handle.

Pilgrim children worked hard all day.

Pilgrim children had little time to play.

Five Plump Turkeys.

This plump turkey spread his tail like a fan.

This plump turkey, away he ran.

This plump turkey flew up in a tree.

This plump turkey gobbled at me.

This plump turkey said, "I'll leave right away,

So the cook can't find me on Thanksgiving Day."

A Game'. Filling Memory.

Whet your appetite and your memory.
First player:
"I'm going to Thanksgiving dinner and I'm having a turkey."
Second player:
"I'm going to Thanksgiving dinner and I'm having a turkey and

stuffing."
Third player:
"I'm going to Thanksgiving dinner and I'm having a turkey and

stuffing and

sweet potatoes."

Continue repeating and adding. Players forgetting items or changing

the

order are eliminated.

Children perform some tasks, crosswords, puzzles, work with pictures at

the blackboard and individually.


Thanksgiving Puzzles, Crosswords.

There are many good things to eat and drink on Thanksgiving. Look at the picture

clues In the puzzle, write the word that tells what each picture is.


Home Sweet Home (game).

Better to be prepared

before.

The Indians taught the Pilgrims the best place to hunt and fish. Make

this simple habitat classification game for an individual or a small group

of children to play.

Draw and label simple pictures of a water, a land, and a sky habitat on

9" x 12" pieces of tagboard, as shown. Cut out pictures of animals that

live mostly on land, mostly on water, mostly in the air and mount them

on tag-board. Laminate the habitats and the animal cards, or cover

them with clear


contact paper for years of use. Tape the habitats together to make an

answer board that can be folded for storage. Encourage the children to

sort the pictures into the appropriate categories. If an animal lives

mostly on land, where will his picture go? In the water? In the air?

Extension

activities

could

include

naming

the

animals

in

each

category, answering animal riddles, or sorting pictures of vehicles

(boats, planes, trains and so on) in the same manner.

Native American Pictoqraphs.

Contest: Use the pictographs to write a message to a

friend. The audience: tries to solve the problem.

A Pilgrim Song

Children find partners and sit facing one another. Partners hold hands,

bend knees, and press against each other's feet as they rock back and

forth and sign to the tune of "Row, Row, Row Your Boat".

It's Happy Thanksgiving.

It's Happy Thanksgiving,

Thanksgiving! Horray! We're

going to dinner at

Grandma's today.

1 love it at Grandma's

it's cozy and snug, I

love giving Grandma a

Thanksgiving hug.

1 help make the gravy. I

pour and stir, it smells

so delicious, 1 love

helping her.

Bobbi Katz.


Thanksgiving.

Ivy O.Eastwick
Thank you
for all ray hands can hold

apples red and melons

gold, yellow corn

both ripe and sweet,

peas and beans

so good to eat!
Thank you
for all my eyes can see

-lovely sunlight, field

and tree,

white cloud-boast in

sea-deep sky, soaring

bird

and butterfly.
Thank you
for all my ears can hear

-birds' song echoing far and

near, songs of little stream,

big sea, cricket, bullfrog, duck

and bee!

/All in a Word.


for time to be together, turkey,

talk, and tangy weather

for harvest stored away,

home, and health, and

holiday

for autumn's frosty art, and

abundance in the heart

for neighbors, and November,

nice things, new things to

remember

for kitchen, kettles' croon,

kith and kin expected soon

for sizzle, sights, and sounds,

and something special that

abounds.


Thanksgiving Quiz.

1. What did the Pilgrims eat at the first Thanksgiving?

о Meat and seafood

о Vegetables and fruits о

All of the above

2.

When did the first Thanksgiving celebration take place?

о 1621

о 1777 о

1849

3. Which holiday comes closest to Thanksgiving in the number of

people

who travel?

о Memorial

Day о July 4th

о Labor Day

4.

Why do we call a turkey a

v

'turkey"?

о A frightened turkey makes a "turk, turk, turk, turk'" noise.

о Its name steins from the word "tuka" which means "peacock" in India.

о Its name comes from the Native American word "firkee" which rhymes

with

turkey. о All of the

above

5. The wild turkey is one of the world's fastest birds.

о Тrue

o False

6.

Why is it an insult to call someone a

turkey?

о Because turkeys aren't very small.

о Because turkeys smell.

о Because turkeys are mean.

о All of the above

7. What do you call the bright red thing that hangs under a turkey's

chin?

о A snood

о A wattle

о A beard


Concepts - the End

The following ideas are most easily understood by young children.
•
Thanksgiving is a time to give thanks. People celebrate by having a

dinner with family and friends.
•
Turkey and a variety of vegetables are served because that is what

the

Pilgrims and Indians ate at the first Thanksgiving feast.
•
The Pilgrims and Indians worked together and shared. The Pilgrims

we

re thankful for the friendship and help of the Indians and for

having

enough food for the winter.
•
The Indians and Pilgrims dressed and lived differently than people

do

today.
•
The Pilgrims left England and crossed the ocean to have a better life.

Songs.
For Thanksgiving
(Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star)

Thank you, thank you very much

For everything that 1 can touch.

Thanks a lot for nature's food.

And for when I'm feeling good.

Thank you, thank you very much.

For moms and dads and friends and such.
Gobbly, Wobbly Turkeys ...
(Ten Little Indians)

One little, two little, three little turkeys,

Gobbly, wobbly, bobbly turkeys,

hurry, scurry, worry, turkeys,

It's Thanksgiving Day!

The End.




Thanksgiving Riddles.

If April showers bring May flowers, what do May flowers

bring?
Pilgrims.
Which cat discovered America?
Christofurry Columbus.
Why do turkeys always go "gooble, gooble"?
Because they never learned good table manners.
What key has legs and can't open doors?
A turkey.
What has feathers and webbed feet?
A turkey wearing scuba gear.
How can you send a turkey through the post office?
Bird class mail.
Why did the turkey cross the road?
It was the chicken's day off.
Why was the turkey the drummer in the band?
Because they had the drumsticks.
What do you call a dumb gobbler?
A jerky turkey.
What sound does a space turkey make?
Hubble, bubble, bubble.





When the Pilgrims arrived to the New

World They met the native Indians.

They together lived and worked

And had a feast with turkeys.



We came from the

harbor And settled on

the land.

We found some people and

Asked for help.

They gave us nuts and other food

And our life was very good.

They showed us friendship and

together We made a ship from wood

and leather.

We ate a turkey and drank some tea

When the Indians became free.

We found new world And what is

more there was some gold and iron ore.





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