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| Title | Activity Ideas for Día de los Muertos |
| Body | Last week's issue of InterCom included Web sites for Día de los Muertos; below are some activities recently posted to the FLTEACH listserv. ---- - Teach the students about the parades common during the festival and then have them make their own masks. - Teach them about the altars that are set up and covered with things that are important to the deceased. Have them make their own "coffin" out of a shoe box and fill it with things that are important to them. Lastly, have them present their projects to the class in Spanish. - Hand out recipes for skull candies, Día de los Muertos bread, etc and have the students make them at home and bring them in for a culture party the next day. Or you could make the treats in class, giving Spanish directions (using commands). - In Spanish, discuss how we celebrate Halloween in the US and then compare and contrast that to Día de los Muertos. - Have them research on the Internet different topics pertaining to Día de los Muertos (food, parades, altars, customs, masks, etc). Have them write a paragraph about it and/or present their findings orally in Spanish to the class. McCoy, B. Re: Dia de los muertos activities. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv. FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (5 Oct. 2005). ---- Something I have done for Dia de los Muertos is a classroom "ofrenda". I put a table in the back of the room and cover it with orange and black tissue paper and buy some flowers to get us started. Since we cannot have candles in school, I use clear Christmas lights around the table. I put a picture of my great-grandma and my old cat and explain to the class what an ofrenda is, and tell them they are welcome to honor their deceased relatives or pets as well. Every year, I have more than 20 pictures--this is a project across all my Spanish classes. Another thing I do for my Spanish 2 classes is to have them write either a poem about death (in Spanish, of course) or write letters to deceased people. Most of them choose famous people, but some of them write to relatives. The topic is open, but I usually encourage them to talk about how things have changed since that person has passed--just to give them some idea of what to say. It sounds kind of freaky--writing letters to dead people--but the kids actually enjoy the activity quite a bit... My kids get tons of real writing activities, and this is just one of their favorites. Flaskrud, P. Re: Dia de los muertos activities. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv. FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (5 Oct. 2005). |
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