November
5th 
Guy Fawkes' Day
The famous Gunpowder Plot (1605)
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The rhyme
Remember, remember the fifth
of November,
Gunpowder treason and plot.
We see no reason
Why gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot!
The story
on the Parliament's site
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The Gunpowder
Plot and Bonfire Night
Guy
fawkes on the BBC site :
Game: Foil the Gunpowder Plot
The Gunpowder Plot
What If the Gunpowder Plot Had Succeeded?
The Enduring Memory of the Gunpowder Plot
More about Guy
Fawkes
From 1605 to our day
here
A factsheet
to download for lycée students
A worksheet
for Lycée students
More information and activities here
Guy Fawkes' confession
online
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On
this site
Guy Fawkes' Day 
Pour célébrer
Guy Fawkes' Day le 5 novembre, deux pages
sur le site destinées à faire connaître
le
personnage de Guy Fawkes, le replacer dans son
contexte historique et à familiariser les élèves
de collège avec les coutumes de Guy Fawkes'
Day au Royaume-Uni.
 Sur
la première, destinée aux élèves
de collège, vous trouverez une
Treasure Hunt, des exercices interactifs et un attrayant
jeu historique.
La
deuxième, destinée aux élèves
de lycée, propose une étude d'article
"The
gunpowder plot", des exercices interactifs
et une cyberhunt.
More links
Safety
first on bonfire night
What
to eat on Bonfire Night
What
children and teenagers do on Bonfire night (Woodlands
Junior School page)
Un
site consacré au Gunpowder plot
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November
11th 
Remembrance Day |
Remembrance Day in Canada,
all about poppies
In the UK, Remembrance
Day is also called Poppy
Day
The significance of the
two minute
silence
Why the
Poppy?
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Veterans Day in
the US
Activities for LP students based on the BBC site |
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4th Thursday in November Nov
26th, 2009
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and games
Lots of Thanksgiving
activities for younger students
Pictures
to print and colour
A feast of Thanksgiving lessons
A Thanksgiving vocabulary
game
The first
Thanksgiving (for advanced studentss). Relive the
voyage on the Mayflower
A Thanksgiving crossword
puzzle
Link
galore for Collège students (Académie
de Nancy-Metz)
A lesson about Thanksgiving
to download (elementary) on Insideout
Traditions
and trivia
A video on the different traditions on History Channel 
Remerciements à 
pour les cliparts
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The
truth about the
Pilgrims and Thanksgiving
The Plymouth Thanksgiving
story
Norman Rockwell's Freedom
from want
Thanksgiving traditional turkey
More recipes
Some Thanksgiving cartoons
Lots of Thanksgiving resources at teacherplanet.com
Thanksgiving clipart
Have fun reading Art Buchwald's article
about 'le
jour de Merci Donnant'
Speech triggering pictures (Thanks to Christine Reymond in Infonews)
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the "Saturday Evening Post"
covers since
1923 (including Rockwell's painting, but with many others)
- the First thanksgiving ( traditional painting by Jenny Brownscombe)
- in the same vein, the painting that is in many school books : the first Thanksgiving by Gerome Ferris (1915)
- the traditional Norman Rockwell painting "Freedom from hunger"
- the same, plus the head of Bill Cosby added
- a photo of a table with all the dishes ready
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The turkey presidential pardon
Each year the President of the United States is expected to
pardon a turkey before Thanksgiving at a White House ceremony.
Read
more
Thanksgiving sur le site d'anglais
Trois pages pour préparer
Thanksgiving, célébré le quatrième
jeudi de novembre (cette année le 27).
Une page contenant des informations sur l'histoire,
les traditions et des activités pour le lycée,
collège, CAP et Bac Pro.
Une Treasure Hunt pour le collège qui permettra
aux élèves de se familiariser avec cet important
évènement culturel et historique américain.
Une activité pour le lycée dans laquelle les
élèves devront comparer deux documents
iconographiques concernant Thanksgiving
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de Paris
Nous ne sommes pas responsables du
contenu des sites externes
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