THANKSGIVING

It is the fourth Thursday in November
                                                                      

                                        
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In September 1620, a group of English people called The Pilgrim Fathers sailed from Plymouth, England across the Athlantic Ocean, in a ship called the Mayflower, to Cape Cod in North America. They went away from England because they didn't agree with the religion in England. They wanted to make a new life in a new country.

When they arrived, they called their new home New England., but they were not the first people to live there. The Wampanoag were the first people.The Wampanoag taught them to grow and cook new kinds of fruit and vegetables. The first winter was difficult. Many of the Pilgrim Fathers died because it was very cold and they had little food. In the spring they started to grow food, with the help of some friendly Wampanoag, and in the autumn of 1621 they celebrated their first harvest. They gave thanks, not only for the harvest, but for their new home, new life and new friends.

In 1863 during The Civil War, President Lincoln declared a national THANKSGIVING DAY every November. This year is on November 22nd.

Nowadays, most American families dinner together to celebrate this day. They have turkey, vegetables, mashed potatoes, pumpkin and apple pie, nuts....

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On the 11th. November 1918, The First World War came to an end and now 11th. November has become REMEMBRANCE DAY.

An  Australian man called Edward George Honey wrote to the London Evening News in 1919. In his letter he said he wanted people to stop one day and think about the soldiers who died in the war. King George the Fifth saw the letter and agreed, so he asked everyone to stop work and remember the dead. And so in the UK and other countries people are silent for two minutes at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.

The nearest Sunday to 11th. November is REMEMBRANCE DAY. In towns and cities young and old soldiers walk  together in parades to remember the soldiers who died in all the different wars.

In London, The Queen and the Prime Minister put flowers on the big war memorial called the Cenotaph.

The poppy is the symbol of this day.

This year marks 100 years since the end of the First World War, with tributes in the shape of films, poetry and exhibitions taking place over the course of 2018.