Students' knowledge of Thanksgiving

by Calli Zimmerman

If asked the following questions, would you be able to answer? 

What boat did the pilgrims come to America on? What is the name of the area where they landed? What year was the first Thanksgiving? 

A survey with those questions was held in the study hall for students who weren’t busy. 

Twenty-four students took the time to complete the survey and surprisingly only eight answered all three questions correctly. 

Twenty-three students had the Mayflower correct, while 21 had Plymouth Rock right and only 10 had 1621 correct. 

Out of the 21 who answered Plymouth Rock correctly, only 12 spelled it right. 

This is interesting because many people say that kids do not care, and they do not listen in class. Well, out of the 24 students, all of them had at least 2 questions right. 

Some interesting answers returned were the date 100 BC and Pilgrims Rock as the area.