This Thanksgiving activity allows students:to compare formal and informal table settings, draw or paste their own table setting, and to connect their design to expository writing. Students are asked to explain their table setting and why they chose to place the items where they did.The formal and informal table settings can be used to discuss the similarities and differences with the class, as a whole, and used to complete the included Formal and Informal Venn-Diagram.Includes the following:8.