MINISTERIO DE EDUCACIÓN

C.E.B.G. RESIDENCIAL VISTA ALEGRE

SUBJECT
ENGLISH

PRESENTED BY
YAMEL LÓPEZ SALAZAR

YEAR
VIII GRADE A

SCHOOL YEAR
2019
¿What is thanksgiving day?
Thanksgiving Day (in Spanish Día de Acción de Gracia; French Jour de l'Action de grâce;
Portuguese Dia de Ação de Graças) is a national holiday celebrated mainly in the United
States, and also in Canada, in Brazil, in some Caribbean islands, Liberia and by communities
of American immigrants in Central America and Israel. It began as a day of thanking God
for the blessing of the harvest and the previous year. Holidays with similar names take place
in Germany and Japan. Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday of October in
Canada and the fourth Thursday of November in the United States and Brazil, and around
the same season of the year in other places.
¿What food they eat?
Turkey is traditionally accompanied with a stuffing made of cornbread and sage. It is
traditionally served with a jelly or red cranberry sauce, and vegetable dishes such as green
beans, green beans, sweet potato (sweet potato, sweet potato) and mashed potatoes with
gravy are usually served, which is a sauce made from the juice of Turkey; A wide variety of
desserts is also usually served, with pumpkin pie being the most popular. Meals are served
with spiced hot apple cider or sparkling apple cider, traditionally fermented (sparkling apple
cider or hard cider). It is also common to prepare pecan nut and apple pie.
¿How the celebration arises?

Thanksgiving prayers and special Thanksgiving ceremonies are common among almost all
cultures after harvest and on other occasions. The history of the Thanksgiving holiday in
North America has its roots in English traditions dating back to the Protestant Reformation.
It also has aspects of a harvest festival, although the harvest in New England occurs long
before the end of November, the date on which Thanksgiving Day is celebrated.
In English tradition, Thanksgiving days and special services of religious thanks to God
became important during the Anglican reformation, in the reign of Henry VIII and in reaction
to the large number of religious festivities of the Catholic calendar. Before 1536, there were
95 church holidays, plus 52 Sundays, in which people had to attend church and quit work,
and sometimes pay for expensive celebrations. The reforms of 1536 reduced the number of
Church festivities to 27, but some Puritans wished to completely eliminate all church
festivities, including Christmas and Easter.
The holidays would be replaced by specially called days of fasting or thanksgiving, in
response to events that the Puritans regarded as acts of divine providence. Unexpected
disasters or threats of divine judgment demanded days of fasting. Special blessings, seen as
coming from God, required days of giving thanks. For example, the days of fasting were
named for the drought in 1611, the floods in 1613 and the plagues of 1604 and 1622. The
days of giving thanks were named after the victory over the Spanish army in 1588 and after
the Queen Anne's release in 1705. An unusual annual Thanksgiving day began in 1606, after
the failure of the gunpowder conspiracy in 1605, and that became Guy Fawkes' night
(November 5).
In United States
In the United States, the modern tradition of Thanksgiving has its origins in 1623 at a
celebration in Plymouth, in the current state of Massachusetts. There is also evidence that
Spanish settlers in Texas held celebrations on the continent before in 1598, and thanksgiving
parties in the Virginia colony.
The party in 1621 was celebrated in gratitude for a good harvest. In later years, the tradition
continued with civil leaders such as Governor William Bradford, who planned to celebrate
the day and help in 1623.6 7 8 Since at first the Plymouth Colony did not have enough food
to feed half Of the 102 settlers, the natives of the Wampanoag tribe helped the pilgrims by
giving them seeds and teaching them how to fish. The practice of holding a harvest festival
like this did not become a regular tradition in New England until the late 1660s.
According to historian Jeremy Bangs, director of the Leiden American Pilgrim Museum,
pilgrims may have been inspired by the annual Thanksgiving services for the relief of the
siege of Leiden in 1574, when they lived in Leiden.
The site where the first Thanksgiving day was held in the United States, and even on the
continent, is an object of constant debate. The writers and professors Robyn Gioia and
Michael Gannon of the University of Florida have pointed out that the first celebration of this
day in what is now the United States was carried out by Spanish settlers on September 8,
1565, in which Today is St. Augustine, Florida.
¿Representative foods of the era that began?

The typical Thanksgiving menu is a real food festival, but it wasn't always that way. The
characteristic that remains today with respect to its early years is that it is dishes where
seasonal seasonal products prevail, especially those related to the end of summer and autumn
harvests. Thus, the abundance of products obtained after the work of the land is appreciated
with dinner.
There are hardly any mentions in historical sources that tell us what the harvest festivals
consisted of during the first centuries. We have to jump until the 19th century to track the
evolution of the classic Thanksgiving menu, with a particular reference: Sarah Josepha Hale,
author of poems and novelist born in 1788.
Although it is not known exactly what he ate at the first celebrations, documents that mention
different menus and dishes consumed throughout its history have been preserved. Seasonal
vegetables and turkey seem not to be lacking, but recipes were also prepared with fish and
seafood, products that are almost completely discarded today.