The document contains several sections about traditions associated with Thanksgiving including: saying what you are thankful for around the table, the spiritual implications for Christians in giving thanks for what Jesus did, common Thanksgiving foods like turkey and side dishes, the history of Thanksgiving originating from a harvest feast between pilgrims and Native Americans in 1621 that became a national holiday under Abraham Lincoln, and activities some families engage in on Thanksgiving like watching football games, playing touch football, and Black Friday shopping.

1. What we do on Thanksgiving
● We sit around the table and say something we are
thankful for.
David Song
AJ Chase Justin Chen

2. vSp Spiritual Implications of Thanksgiving
Puritan Christians were the first to celebrate the holiday. All
Christians then and now believe that we can give thanks
because of what Jesus did:
Qualified us to be saved
Delivered us from the eternal consequences of sin
Transferred us into the kingdom of His Son
Redeemed us, providing the way to eternal life

3. Thanksgiving Food
By: Maliaka, Grishma, Maggie

4. Green Bean Casserole Mashed Potatoes and Gravy
Stuffing
Sweet Potato CasseroleCorn
Cranberry Sauce

5. Turkey
Grishma
Maggie Maliaka

7. Thanksgiving History

8. 1. The first Thanksgiving was in
1621 when the pilgrims and
Native Americans gathered to
be thankful for a plentiful
harvest that they had created
together.
2. Abraham Lincoln made
Thanksgiving a national holiday
during the civil war in 1863, in
an effort to bring the country
together.
3. The new holiday gained a lot of
popularity and is still celebrated
today.
By: David Brackett Alex Cummins,
and Paul Sun

9. Football
Many
American
families watch
the football
games on
Thanksgiving
day.
Sometimes
they play a
touch football
outside, too.

10. Basketball
Some
families
watch
basketball
games
throughout
the day.

11. The lads nick
thomas
will

12. Black Friday
This is Angie. I bought lots of
snacks!
This is Ailene. I bought lots
of clothes
This is Lily. She doesn’t do
Black Friday.