1. Practice #1 Body Paragraph #1
People in the U.S. usually celebrate Thanksgiving with their relatives, and they celebrate July 4th with their community – neighborhood and nation.
The Wednesday before Thanksgiving is the busiest travel day of the year in the United States as people drive and fly to eat their Thanksgiving meal with their relatives.
At Thanksgiving, we assume that people will be with their mothers and fathers, sons and daughters, and extended family, if possible.
The song “Jingle Bells,” originally written to celebrate Thanksgiving, reads “to grandmother’s house we go.”
Major roads come to a stand still as people hurriedly leave work and school to be with family.
On the other hand, most people in the U.S. stay close to their own homes for July 4th.
Instead, many people gather with neighbors for neighborhood parades and barbeques or their larger community to view fireworks.
Thanksgiving brings our families together for a meal; July 4th brings our communities together for a patriotic birthday party.

2. Practice #1 Body Paragraph #2
Although eating is important in the celebrations of both Thanksgiving and the Fourth of July, the sit-down meal is central to the Thanksgiving tradition whereas Fourth of July food designed to be eaten outdoors and carried.
To attract customers, grocery stores advertise frozen turkeys, stuffing, potatoes, and cans of pumpkin during the Thanksgiving season.
Each of these foods requires preparation before they can be cooked on a stove or in an oven.
For the Fourth of July, however, stores advertise discounts on soda cans, hot dogs, hamburgers, fajitas, and chips.
Many Fourth of July foods, such as chips, are ready to be eaten without cooking; they are easy to take to a baseball game or a fireworks show.
But even foods that need cooking can usually be thrown on a grill without any preparation and then eaten without utensils – even the drinks come as single servings.
Food is the event for Thanksgiving, whereas food is enjoyable but not the focus for the Fourth of July.
For Thanksgiving, people go to the food; for the Fourth of July, the food goes with the people.

3. Practice #1 Body Paragraph #3
Both Thanksgiving and July 4th are now federal holidays which began the United States, or the land that would become the United States.
The traditions of Thanksgiving came from 1621 when the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony gave thanks to God for surviving their first winter in the Americas.
The first Thanksgiving feast lasted three days, fed 53 pilgrims and 90 Native Americans, and consisted of fowl, venison, fish, lobster, clams, berries, fruit, pumpkin, and squash.
Thanksgiving expresses appreciation for the safety of family and the meeting of one of our most basic needs: food.
The first European settlers in the Americas had a very difficult time, and we honor their courage and hard work.
July 4th, or Independence Day, began in 1776 when the United States became its own country by adopting the Declaration of Independence and separating from Great Britain.
The Fourth of July celebrates our pride in our nation, the freedom and protection it provides, and the greatness that it has achieved since its independence.
In 1776, it did not seem possible that some scraggly colonies could possibly win a revolution against the greatest military power of its time, Great Britain.
But the United States challenged the power of the king, won the war, and created a government in which all of its citizens are guaranteed fundamental rights.
Consequently, we take a day each year to celebrate the freedoms that our nation has provided for over 200 years.
While both Thanksgiving and the Fourth of July celebrate beginnings, Thanksgiving recognizes the tangible need of food to live and the Fourth of July recognizes the intangible need of freedom in order to achieve the best life possible.