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The First Thanksgiving - Historian Log Book
Step 3: The First Thanksgiving
Document 6: The First Thanksgiving Painting
1. Describe the painting. What do you see? Be precise. Use the dictionary if necessary.
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2. How are the two groups of people represented? (clothes, position, etc.)
English colonists
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native americans
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3. What image do we have of the relations between the Natives and the Pilgrims?
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4. Do you think the painting reflects the reality? Why ?
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Document 7: Extract from Edward Winslow’s journal
1. Find the English for:
récolter: orge (un type de céréale): fusil:
divertissement: mourir de faim: traité (de paix):
2. Who are the important people in the colony?
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3. Write all the information about the first Thanksgiving feast (who, when, where, what)
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4. Who is the author of this document?
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Vocabulary help: crops (cultures) ; provide (fournir)

The First Thanksgiving - Historian Log Book
Step 4: After Thanksgiving
Document 8: Maps of Plymouth Bay
1. True or False?
The territory was just a forest.
There were many Native villages before the colonists arrived. There weren't any Native cities before they arrived.
The Wampanoag had a small territory.
The colonists took the Native Americans into consideration. The colonists completely replaced the Natives in the region.
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2. How did the territory change with the arrival of the colonists?
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3. What were the consequences for the Natives? Make hypotheses.
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Documents 9 and 10: population graphs and painting of the 1637 thanksgiving Massacre
1. Describe the graph (vocabulary: to increase (augmenter) ; to decrease (diminuer)) _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________
2. What are the reasons for the changes in the populations? Make hypotheses?
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3. How did the colonists consider the Native Americans? What were the consequences colonization for the Native population?
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