Thanksgiving History. Thanksgiving is a particularly American holiday. The word evokes images of football, family reunions, roasted turkey with stuffing, pumpkin pie and, of course, the Pilgrims and Wampanoag, the acknowledged founders of the feast.
A forb (sometimes spelled phorb) is a herbaceous flowering plant that is not a graminoid (grasses, sedges and rushes). The term is used in biology and in vegetation ecology, especially in relation to grasslands[1] and understory.
Understanding by Design, or UbD, is a tool utilized for educational planning focused on teaching for understanding advocated by Jay McTighe and Grant Wiggins in their Understanding by Design (1998), published by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.he emphasis of UbD is on  backward design , the practice of looking at the outcomes in order to design curriculum units, performance assessments, and classroom instruction. Understanding by Design and UbD are registered trademarks of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD).