The document discusses the origins of Thanksgiving in the United States. It notes that Native American tribes lived in the East Coast areas long before European colonists arrived on the Mayflower in 1621. The following year, the colonists held a harvest feast with the Native Americans that is considered the first Thanksgiving. Today, Americans celebrate Thanksgiving on the fourth Thursday of November, honoring that first feast which included foods like roast turkey, cranberry sauce, potatoes, and pumpkin pie.

1. Thanksgiving
Destiny, Anthony, Maja, and Apple

2. Long ago colonists came to America. Long before
settlers came to the East Coast of the United States,
Native American tribes were in the area.

3. Native Americans were there before other European
settlers arrive on the Mayflower. The holiday dates
back to 1621, the year after the Puritans arrived.

4. Sophia, Cameron, Hassan, and Tommy

5. Thanksgiving dinner almost always includes some of the
foods served at the first feast: roast turkey, cranberry
sauce, potatoes and pumpkin pie.

6. On the fourth Thursday of November,
Americans celebrate Thanksgiving, a national
holiday honoring the early settlers and their
harvest feast known as the first Thanksgiving.

7. It includes some of the food served at the first
feast: roast turkey, cranberry sauce, potatoes
and pumpkin pie.
.The first Thanksgiving was actually in
October.
.The largest pumpkin pie ever baked weighed
2020 pounds and measured just over 12 feet
long.