Episode 90 - Teaching Thanksgiving with Accuracy and Empathy

A couple of years ago, I had a conversation with a student who had just arrived from Turkey that inspired a monthly newsletter to our staff about celebrations around the world for that month. In November, as we were going over the days that we will be in school and why we have a break at the end of the month, we talked about the celebration of Thanksgiving and what typically happens during that time. Many of our ELs, unless they are in elementary schools, don't have a clear concept of th...

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