Materials/Resources: Molly's Pilgrim Unit

• Class set of book: Molly's Pilgrim - If you don't have a class set, lessons can easily be adapted for use with one copy.

• Variety of print resources for completion of country research project

• World Map and pin flags

• Atlases

• Chart paper

• Computers with presentation software and capability to complete online research

• Molly's Pilgrim video

• Squares of construction paper for thankful quilt

• Visit to local historical society

• Community members willing to speak to class

• Materials for pilgrim doll

• Ingredients for cooking activities

• Account with Flat Stanley exchange program

• Epals account

• Sentence strips

• Concept web pocket chart

Recommended Books:

Levels given are based on the Fountas and Pinnell leveling system

    I use literature consistent with the overall theme of whatever unit we are currently studying for other learning activities. The following list of children's books relate nicely with the theme of this unit and could be used with guided reading groups, independent reading, and/or read-alouds.

*Thanksgiving on Thursday (Magic Tree House #27), Mary Pope Osborne:

                Jack and Annie travel in their magic treehouse to the year 1621, where they celebrate the first

            Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims and Wampanoag Indians in the New Plymouth Colony.

*A Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple, Mayflower, 1620 (Dear America Series), Kathryn Lasky

                Twelve-year-old Mem presents a diary account of the trip she and her family made on the Mayflower

            in 1620 and their first year in the New World.

*The Thanksgiving Story, Alice Dalgliesh

                A Pilgrim family's struggle to survive in their harsh new homeland culminates in a thanksgiving feast.

*How Many Days to America? : A Thanksgiving Story, Eve Bunting

                A moving fictional presentation of the perilous voyage of a group of Caribbean refugees to this        

            country.

*Becoming a Citizen, Sarah De Capua (Level N)

                A non-fiction book that discusses how an immigrant can become a United States Citizen. Students

             will learn about the rights and responsibilities of citizens.

*The Corn Husk Doll, Melissa Schiller (Level N)

                This mixed-genre book tells a charming story about a young girl named Sue, who is learning the    

            Native American traditional craft of making corn husk dolls. Sue's mother recalls making the dolls with  

            her grandmother, passing on the craft from one generation to the next.

*Guests, Michael Dorris

                The First Thanksgiving? Moss's father has invited outsiders to the harvest feast - strangers who

            dress oddly and speak a weird language, who are bound to spoil everyone's fun. So Moss and a girl

            named Trouble decide to run away into the forest before the big meal.

*Journey to America, Sonia Levitin

                A Jewish family fleeing Nazi Germany in 1938 endures innumerable separations before they are once

            again united.

*When Jessie Came Across the Sea, by Amy Hest

                Jessie and her grandmother live in an Eastern European shtetel where, one day, the Rabbi informs    

            the villagers that his brother has died and left him one ticket to "the promised land." The rabbi feels he

            cannot leave his people and decides to give the ticket to 13-year-old Jessie. It's almost too much for =

            Jessie and her grandmother to bear, though both believe it is for the best. In America, Jessie follows her

            grandmother's trade and becomes a dressmaker. She works for three years until she has enough

            saved to purchase another ticket--for her grandmother.