Pilgrim Boys and Girls

Thanksgiving is a time to remember the pilgrims who came to this land to escape a life of persecution. I want my students to learn about the lives of the pilgrims in Plymouth. We study Samuel Eaton and Sarah Morton who were children in Plymouth. I ask each child to imagine what their life would have been like. Then, we brainstorm how their lives are the same and different from the pilgrim children. Each child writes a paragraph about what their life would be like if they were a child at Plymouth. Then they turn themselves into pilgrims. 

Here are two of my students with their craftivity and below is a close-up of their writing. 

For November, I think that my students are already talented writers.