Anne: This is excellent! All children need to feel that they are both wanted and accepted. Also many children find history a challenge and boring. I will consider using this tactic in the future. This makes history fun and will lead them to start their own journey towards discovering history on their own terms. Jane Steele.
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>From: Anne Pemberton <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] The PilgrimS' Thanksgiving and JAMESTOWN LIVE!
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>Fred,
>
>I look forward to you MS on the picnic and fireworks. I love to do stories
>that are different from what is out there. If you didn't see them, I've got
>a bunch of history stories on the main part of the site:
>http://www.educationalsynthesis.org/books ,...
>I started to do these stories for my newphew, a severely autistic boy in hi,
>then early teens, who like the idea of seeing himself in the story. Since,
>they have caught on with regular kids who are much younger. My grandneice
>who is a precocious Kindergartener, is the newest fan.... she not only
>wanted the First Readers, but she has recently written her own story, which,
>as soon as she illustrates it, will earn her a place on the web. Libby knows
>most of my history stories by heart! Think what her history teachers will
>think of her when they realize she knows that TJ kept a pet mockingbird!
>
>Anne
>
>Anne Pemberton
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>From: "John Frederick Fausz" <[log in to unmask]>
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>Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 6:15 PM
>Subject: Re: The PilgrimS' Thanksgiving and JAMESTOWN LIVE!
>
>
>> Thanks, Anne. You are so right about harvest time, which the Deetzes
>> say would have allowed feasting anytime from September to early
>> October at the latest. I confused Winslow's December 1621 letter with
>> the date of the feast, and knew that November was the least likely time
>> for the original Thanksgiving. The Pilgrims will always trump Virginia
>> with
>> regard to that holiday, because it is so fixed in our cultural traditions
>> for
>> a variety of reasons.
>>
>> To stay on the feasting theme, you may next want to write about the
>> Jamestown colonists' "Picnic" with the Kecoughtan Indians--the same
>> tribe that John Smith later awed with the first documented fireworks
>> display in English America! I'll send you a few pages from my book MS.
>>
>> Years ago, I consulted on Pocahontas for Jean Fritz's popular children's
>> bio.
>>
>> Best Wishes, Fred
>>
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