Thanksgiving · Worksheet 1
Two Sides of One Table
Read the story. 英文を読もう。
1In the fall of 1621, a small English village in North America held a harvest party. About 50 English settlers were there. Then about 90 Wampanoag men arrived with their leader, Ousamequin. They stayed for three days, and they brought five deer for the meal.
2Both groups had a hard story behind them. The English came on a ship called the Mayflower in 1620. Their first winter was terrible, and about half of them died. A few years earlier, a terrible sickness had killed many Wampanoag people. So the two groups made an agreement to protect each other.
3Today, many people call this meal the first Thanksgiving. But it became a national holiday much later. A writer named Sarah Josepha Hale sent letters to five presidents for 17 years. In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln finally agreed. Hale also wrote the famous children's poem Mary Had a Little Lamb.
4Now Thanksgiving is on the fourth Thursday in November. Millions of families travel across the country to eat turkey, mashed potatoes, and pumpkin pie together. Many people watch a big parade in New York and football games on TV. In Canada, Thanksgiving comes earlier, on the second Monday in October.
5Not everyone remembers the day in the same way. For many Native Americans, it is also a time to think about what their people lost. Since 1970, some of them have met in Plymouth on Thanksgiving Day for a National Day of Mourning. At the Thanksgiving table, there is more than one story to tell.
- harvest 収穫
- settler 入植者、移住者
- Pilgrim ピルグリム（メイフラワー号の入植者）、巡礼者
- Native American アメリカ先住民
- agreement 約束、協定
- sickness 病気
- thankful 感謝している
- national holiday 国の祝日
- president 大統領
- parade パレード、行列
- mourning 喪、追悼、深い悲しみ
- recipe レシピ、作り方