El+Dia+de+los+Muertos

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= Cultural Comparisons =


 * El Dia de los Muertos cultural comparisons: My best activity this week was comparing Dia de los Muertos with Memorial Day and Halloween. The students really enjoyed doing this activity, especially my focus class, which is my hardest class to get to participate positively. They came up with great similarities and differences between the three holidays, and really thought hard about it. I have to get the concept map format that I used up on the wiki, but for now I'll leave it at this.user:winokurk

**Online Activities**

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(Here is the worksheet for the above video) user:Amackay4

This is an internet interaction assignment for Dia de los Muertos. If you have a language lab or a way to use a class set of computers. user:LRobertson1386


 * I found a website that had some fun activities for dia de los muertos. Here it is www.azcentral.com user:gutier50


 * **Useful Websites:** http://www.inside-mexico.com/dayofthedeadarticles.htm I found this site had a lot of valuable information, including suggestions from other teachers for activities and also a short article on common misconceptions of the holiday. I plan to use excerpts of the articles in class and I could also foresee creating a presentation from this information if that is your goal. user:decortem

=Pan de Muerto=
 * Here is a powerpoint I made about making pan de muertos. It shows me (and Laura and her mom, incidentally) making the bread. Coincidentally, there are a lot of stem changing verbs in the directions, so you could use it for that. It's pretty fun, though, and my kids got a kick out of it.
 * [[file:dia de los muertos presentation]]user:armst136

=Papel Picado=

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I love this video for teaching how to make papel picado! It has comprehensible Spanish and uses a lot of visual aides and cognates. The speaker speaks slowly enough (while still realistically) that even my novice-level students had no problem understanding and following the directions! It was also helpful for them when I stood next to the video and did the same thing as the man on the video, holding up my tissue paper in the air, so they had two ways to see the example. user:eddingtona


 * Papel picado pix: My students made papel picado for El Dia de los Muertos - I hung each classes up on the ceiling, it looks awesome! Check it out:[[image:Papel_picado_003.jpg width="640" height="480"]] [[image:Papel_picado_002.jpg width="640" height="480"]]

=Presentations=

This is a nice introduction of Dia de los Muertos in a powerpoint. Topic: El Dia de los Muertos - Computer-Based Research Project Level: Spanish I

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=Songs=

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"Entre las ruinas [del monasterio]" user:eddingtona

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media type="custom" key="24285798" "Los esqueletos" user:eddingtona

media type="custom" key="24285862" "Tumbas, tumbas, tumbas" user:eddingtona

=Videos=

[|Día de los muertos]

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I showed this video to my older students [I teach elementary] and afterwards, I asked them what they knew or had learned about Día de los Muertos. We had some really great discussions! user:eddingtona

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This video is in English. I used it a few times while teaching my younger students [grades 1-3] when I had done everything I could think of to help them understand the basic gist of Día de los Muertos and they still weren't getting it. :) user:eddingtona

[|Who is Señor Calavera?]

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