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Thanksgiving Day, is a holiday celebrated in the United States on the fourth Thursday in November. It has officially been an annual tradition since 1863

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The event that Americans commonly call the "First Thanksgiving" was celebrated to give thanks to God for guiding them safely to the New World. The first Thanksgiving feast lasted three days, providing enough food for 13 Pilgrims and 90 Native Americans .

The Feast
Traditional foods include turkey, stuffing, gravy, sweet potatoes, cornbread, mashed potatoes, and cranberry sauce. Many people serve pie for dessert at the end of the meal. Popular pie flavors are pumpkin, sweet potato, and apple.

The Wishbone

Some families include breaking the turkey's wishbone as part of their celebration. The wishbone is found attached to the breast meat in the turkey's chest. After the meat has been removed and the wishbone has had a chance to become dry and brittle, two people each take one end of the bone, make a wish, and pull. Whoever ends up with the larger part of the bone gets their wish!

Thanksgiving vocabulary for English students:

Pilgrims, an Indian, corn, a wheelbarrow (carretilla), the Mayflower, a scarecrow, a turkey, the Fall harvest, straw, pumpkin pie, turkey dinner, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, cranberry sauce, hunt the turkey,make pumpkin pie, boil the corn, crack the nuts.