Lies My Teacher Told Me Chapter 3 Summary

When I read chapter three, “The Truth about the First Thanksgiving,” in the novel “Lies My Teacher Told Me,” this chapter is interesting about the Pilgrims in New England and how textbooks do not go into detail about the struggles the Pilgrims went through. Lowen wants textbooks to assist students to understand the history of the Pilgrims and how they discovered America. In this chapter, Lowen explains the history of the Pilgrims in New England, how and why they got there, and what they found. Before the Pilgrims got to America, an illness called the plague moved across southern New England. This illness was brutal and deadly, it killed a lot of the population in southern New England. Lowen said, “Within three years the plague wiped out