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1 P I E P I E Start Slice P I E P I E Author s Purposes Directions: 1. Pick a card, read it out loud to your partner, and tell the author s purpose. If correct, move to the first space that matches the author s purpose of the card. If incorrect, your turn is over. 2. First one to the finish is the winner. P I P Persuade I Inform E - Entertain Finish- Enjoy your pie! P I E E

2 Thanksgiving is a holiday first celebrated by the Pilgrims in They celebrated because they were thankful for a good harvest. The first Thanksgiving lasted three days. The Pilgrims and Indians ate, played games, sang, danced, and had contests. In 1863 Abraham Lincoln made Thanksgiving a national holiday. In the 1700s Benjamin Franklin wanted the turkey to be the national bird of the United States. He thought it was a better choice than the eagle, but the eagle was chosen to represent our country. At one time in our history Thanksgiving was celebrated on the last Thursday of November. Now we celebrate it on the fourth Thursday of November. Thanksgiving is celebrated in other countries. For example in Canada they celebrate Thanksgiving on the second Monday of October. In the early days of Thanksgiving dinners people would have eaten turkeys, cranberries, fish, dried fruit, clams, venison, plums, and lobsters. For the first Thanksgiving, the Pilgrims and the Indians probably ate eel, lobster, clams, cornmeal, grapes, plums, peas, and carrots. There would have been no forks at the first Thanksgiving. They hadn t been invented yet!

3 Thanksgiving is the best holiday. You get to eat a big, delicious meal and your family comes to visit. I m sure it s your favorite too. I can t believe people eat turkey on Thanksgiving. I think everyone should eat peanut butter and jelly so turkeys don t have to give their lives for anyone s Thanksgiving meal. Mom, I want to go visit grandma for Thanksgiving. I really want to see her. I m sure she s lonely and wants some company. Please let s go spend some time with her! Grandma, I hope you will come to visit for Thanksgiving. I really miss you and I want to see you. Plus you make the best pumpkin pie. It always tastes great! Please come see us! Mom, I would like to bake a pie for Thanksgiving dinner. Grandma taught me how. I m sure it will taste good. Please let me try! You should buy a Batterball Turkey. They are the best. They bake up moist and delicious. They are not expensive, yet taste yummy. You can t go wrong if you buy a Batterball Turkey. Everybody should wake up early on Thanksgiving and watch the parade. It s so much fun. Everybody loves parades! Are you going to watch the football game on Thanksgiving? I m sure you ll want the Riverside Roosters to win. They re the best! Wouldn t it be interesting to go back in time to the first Thanksgiving? It would be cool to see the Pilgrims and Indians sitting down together to eat

4 Last Thanksgiving Uncle Hal came to visit. He brought his dog who jumped up on our table and ate our whole turkey. My mom was mad and stayed in her room the rest of the day. One of the things dad and I do every Thanksgiving is rake all the leaves in our yard into a big pile. Then dad lets me jump in them. It s so much fun! On Thanksgiving our turkey started talking to us just as mom was putting it into the oven. It jumped out of the pan and asked us to eat hot dogs instead. Beth and her family had hot dogs and hamburgers for Thanksgiving dinner. There was a big snow storm that knocked out the electricity so they had to use the grill to cook Thanksgiving dinner. Right before we sat down for Thanksgiving dinner, we heard a knock on the door. When I opened the door I discovered an alien. Mom said to invite him in for dinner. We had an interesting time eating dinner with an alien!

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