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Thanksgiving Cloze Exercise

Thanksgiving	year	America	thanks	sea
brought	homeland	feast	settlers	landed
Indians	Pilgrims	harvest	crops	help

Directions: Complete the following story about Thanksgiving by filling in the blanks with the correct words. Use each word only once.

The First Thanksgiving

The first ____________ was celebrated in the _______ 1621. The _________, who had come to the New World from England, _________ at Plymouth Rock, in what is now Massachusetts, on December 26, 1620 after being at _______ for almost a year.

When the Pilgrims landed in _________ they discovered that the grain they _________ from England wouldn't grow in the soil of their new ___________. The first winter was very hard for the early _________, and many people died because of sickness and starvation. The native _______ came to the aid of the Pilgrims and taught them how to plant ______ of corn. They also taught the Pilgrims how to hunt and fish.

Thanks to the _______ of the Indians, the settlers' crops did well in the fall of 1621 and there was a great __________. The Pilgrims decided to have a ________ as a way of giving ________. The Pilgrams invited their friends, the Indians, to share this first Thanksgiving feast which lasted three days.

Thanksgiving was proclaimed a national holiday by Congress in 1941.

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