1. Did the Romans celebrate Thanksgiving?
Today, Annual Days of Thanksgiving are celebrated in the United States, Canada, Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, Laos, Liberia, Puerto Rico, Guam, Grenada and the Virgin Islands.

2. Harvest Festivals Suppicatio honor the gods
Cerealia/ Celeria: Harvest festival in the honor of Ceres (Demeter)
First fruits of the season were dedicated to her
Held during October 4th or during April 12th (Persephone’s return)
Pomonia November 1st
We get the name Cerel from her name, for the Romans, Works of art depicted Ceres conventionally with a scepter, a basket of flowers and fruit and a garland made of corn ears (note that "corn" in this instance refers to wheat barley, or some other old world food grain, not to the new world food grain maize, which is called "corn" in the United States and some other areas of the Western Hemisphere). Celebrated with music, parades, games, sport, and a feast. Last 7 days
The Roman thanksgiving, called Supplicatio (was a solemn thanksgiving or supplication to the gods decreed by the senate: all the temples were opened, and the statues of the gods placed in public upon couches (pulvinaria) to which the people offered up their thanksgivings and prayers)
a period of adoration of gods after a great triumph (or disaster), was decreed by the Senate on special occasions. Their harvest festivals, such as the Pomonia on November 1, probably come closer to our kind of Thanksgiving. A cornucopia, or horn of plenty, long associated with abundance and with harvest, was used for this festival and is an excellent decoration for Thanksgiving, the great American harvest festival.

3. Ceres/ Demeter

4. Greek Celebrations Harvest festival of Thesmosphoria Honor of Demeter
Three day and night festival
Day One: Procession and sacrifices
Day Two: Ritual fasting
Acting out parts of the myth
Day Three: Offering to Demeter
The most widely practiced rites throughout the various Greek city-states was the festival known as the Thesmophoria. These rites, considered to be among the most ancient practiced in Greece, were conducted only by women and honored Demeter, the goddess of agriculture, and her daughter Persephone/Kore. The Thesmophoria was traditionally celebrated as a three-day and three-night festival and consisted of three distinct parts:
the Anodos, the opening day procession up to the Thesmophorion building during which the participants bring the sacrifices and other cult implements up to the hill of the Pnyx;
the Nesteia, the ritual fasting which comprised the second day of the ritual; and the sacrifice and feasting that dominated the third and final day. Throughout the festival, the women reenact aspects of the myth of Demeter as she searched for her abducted daughter, ranging from ritualized mourning to celebration as the reunion of the goddess and her daughter revive the fertility of the earth.

5. Fun Thanksgiving facts
Not official until 1941
Always the 4th Tuesday in November
Heart Attacks
Thomas Jefferson- National bird
20 miles an hour
4,500 calories
It was not until 1941, that congress declared Thanksgiving as a national holiday. It was declared to be the fourth Thursday in November.
Here's one of those funny Thanksgiving facts: Turkeys have heart attacks. When the Air Force was conducting test runs and breaking the sound barrier, fields of turkeys would drop dead.
Thomas Jefferson thought the concept of Thanksgiving was "the most ridiculous idea I’ve ever heard.”
Benjamin Franklin wanted the national bird to be a turkey.
A spooked wild turkey can run at speeds up to 20 miles per hour. They can also burst into flight approaching speeds between mph in a matter of seconds.
Turkeys can drown if they look up when it's raining!
The average person consumes 4,500 calories on Thanksgiving Day. (Now that's a lot of turkey!)

6. Sacrifices to Ceres
Each of you will be leaving an offering to the goddess
Dat in the first person is=
Do: I give
Ceres, Cererem in the dative is
Cereri: to Ceres
What case is what your giving going to be in?
The Accusative

7. Writing your sentences
Cibus in the accusative=
Cibos
Porcus in the accusative=
Porcum
Leaves in the accusative is folia
1. cibos Cereri do.
2. porcum Cereri do.
3. folia Cereri do.
Write your sentence above your picture!
When you are done, hang it outside
the classroom