THANKSGIVING DAY

Celebration and customs Clara Illera

Religious and family holiday

religious persecution in their native England 1609 left England for the religious freedom in Holland the Pilgrims. considered the Dutch frivolous and their ideas a threat to their children's education and morality.

HISTORY

Europeans

new world NEW LIFE Religious freedom

Pilgrims

1620 sail for the New World on a ship called the Mayflower. They sailed from Plymouth, England and aboard were 44 Pilgrims, who called themselves the "Saints", and 66 others, whom the Pilgrims called the "Strangers." took 65 days

MAYFLOWER

The first winter was devastating to the Pilgrims March brought warmer weather and the health of the Pilgrims improved, but many had died during the long winter. Of the 110 Pilgrims and crew who left England, less that 50 survived the first winter.

On March 16, 1621 , what was to become an important event took place, an Indian brave walked into the Plymouth settlement. The Pilgrims were frightened until the Indian called out "Welcome" (in English!). Samoset and he was an Abnaki Indian. He had learned English from the captains of fishing boats that had sailed off the coast. After staying the night Samoset left the next day. He soon returned with another Indian named Squanto who spoke better English than Samoset

It was Squanto who taught the Pilgrims how to tap the maple trees for sap. He taught them which plants were poisonous and which had medicinal powers. He taught them how to plant the Indian corn by heaping the earth into low mounds with several seeds and fish in each mound. The decaying fish fertilized the corn. He also taught them to plant other crops with the corn

(Action of collecting food) 1st thanksgiving: 1621 The harvest in October was very successful and the Pilgrims found themselves with enough food to put away for the winter. There was corn, fruits and vegetables, fish to be packed in salt, and meat to be cured over smoky fires.

Give THANKS for the good HARVEST

they were at peace with their Indian neighbors. They had beaten the odds and it was time to celebrate. The Pilgrim Governor William Bradford proclaimed a day of thanksgiving to be shared by all the colonists and the neighboring Native Americans. They invited Squanto and the other Indians to join them in their celebration.

MAIN EVENT: THANKSGIVING DINNER

ROASTED/BAKED

TURKEY

boiled smashed mixed milk, salt and butter To mash: crush and mix.

MashedPotatoes

Stuffing: this is a potato, bread, sage and other spice combination which is usually put in the turkey while it is cooking. It is really delicious and has lots of good flavour, it is one of the best parts of the dinner because we only have it on the special occasions when we have turkey.

STUFFING

Gravy: this is a fatty sauce which is often made after the turkey is cooked and some people like to put on potatoes and turkey. It isnt very healthy, in spite of its good taste, luckily people only have it on occasion and in little portions

GRAVY

Cranberrysauce: sweet sauce or jelly made from boiled cranberries. It is red in colour and put on turkey, potatoes and stuffing. Most turkey dinners have cranberry sauce served together.

CRANBERRYSAUCE (arndano)

Pumpkin Pie: this is a common dessert at thanksgiving. It is delicious and made from pumpkins.

PUMPKING PIE

Corn is one of the popular symbols of thanksgiving. It came in many varieties and colours-red, white, yellow and blue. Some Americans considered blue and white corn sacred. It is said that native Americans had been growing corn a long time before the pilgrims arrived in their country. The oldest corns date 7000 years back and were grown in Mexico. Americans taught pilgrims how to grow corn and help them survive the bitter winter of 1620. It is certain that corn were a part of the first thanksgiving dinner.
The tradition continues and corn finds its place on every dinner table world over during thanksgiving dinner. Ornamental Corncobs are quite popular during the festival. They are used to decorate dining tables and make harvest wreaths- A popular gift item among Americans. Ornamental popcorns are also widely used. Corn reminds us of the importance and heritage of the famous harvest festival. It also remains America's foundation of 'Modern-Agricultur

CORN

Fall /Autumn: this is the season in which Thanksgiving takes place. The leaves change colour and are very pretty in autumn

The Thanksgiving holiday weekend is one of the busiest times of the year for traveling. It is a fourday or five-day weekend vacation for most schools and colleges, and many businesses and government workers get three or four days off. Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and an NFL football game are special

Thanksgiving Day events

The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, often shortened to Macy's Day Parade, is an annual parade presented by Macy's. The tradition started in 1924, tying it for the second-oldest Thanksgiving parade in the United States along with America's Thanksgiving Parade in Detroit, and four years younger than the 6abc IKEA Thanksgiving Day Parade in Philadelphia. The threehour event is held in New York City starting at 9:00 a.m. ES In the 1920s many of Macy's department store employees were first-generation immigrants. Proud of their new American heritage, they wanted to celebrate the United States holiday of Thanksgiving with the type of festival their parents had loved in Europe T on Thanksgiving Day.

Macy's Parade

Macy's is a U.S. chain of midto-high range department stores in New York. In addition to its New York flagship store, the company has designated additional regional flagships in several other major urban centers and as of January 30, 2010 operates a total of 800 stores in the United States.[1] In addition, Macy's operates eSpot ZoomShops kiosks in over 300 store locations, selling consumer electronics. The company produces the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, a noted parade which has been held in New York City annually since 1924.

Macy's

Despite being advertised as the biggest store in the world, it is not the biggest store in the world anymore. Currently the biggest store in the world, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, it is a department store in South Korea called Shinsegae Centum and with an area of 509,810 square meters, almost twice that of Macy's

Macy's

NFL FOOTBALL GAME

Black Friday is the day following Thanksgiving Day in the United States, traditionally the beginning of the Christmas shopping season. On this day, many retailers open very early, often at 4 a.m., or earlier, and offer promotional sales to kick off the shopping season, similar to Boxing Day sales in many commonwealth countries. Black Friday is not actually a holiday, but many employers give their employees the day off, increasing the number of potential shoppers. It has routinely been the busiest shopping day of the year since 2005,[1] although news reports, which at that time were inaccurate,[2] have described it as the busiest shopping day of the year for a much longer period of time.[3] The day's name originated in Philadelphia, where it originally was used to describe the heavy and disruptive pedestrian and vehicle trafficwhich would occur on the day after Thanksgiving. Use of the term began by 1966 and began to see broader use outside Philadelphia around 1975. Later an alternative explanation began to be offered: that "Black Friday" indicates the period during which retailers are turning a profit, or "in the black."[4] Because Thanksgiving always falls on the fourth Thursday in November in the United States, the day after occurs between the 23rd and the 29th of November.

BLACK FRIDAY

Black Friday