Labor Thanksgiving Day in Japan
Students read a nonfiction passage about Labor Thanksgiving Day in Japan, written at 7 reading levels (2nd grade to 8th grade), and answer multiple-choice questions about it.
Student Objectives
- Read a passage about a Japanese holiday and find the details that tell when and why it is celebrated.
- Explain how Labor Thanksgiving Day changed from a harvest ceremony to a day for thanking workers.
- Use context clues to figure out the meaning of words such as harvested.
- Identify how a text is organized by time and by cause and effect.