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| Title | More Day of the Dead Service Learning Project Ideas |
| Body | We did something similar at our school. We called ours the Festival de los Muertos and is more of an open-house, come-and-go event. We advertise in the paper and on the news. Sp III and IV are the "event staff' who hand out programs explaining the holidays and where everything is located. They got to design the shirts and were so excited to have 'event staff' on the back. Students in other classes were asking about the shirts so we sold to the entire school. We have done this for three years and each year we find a way to get more the school involved. Each Spanish class does something in their room. For example, lower levels do a calavera and Level II writes a composition talking about what their loved one was like. We put it on a calavera template from the 'Dia de los Muertos' booklet from Smart as a Fox. Each student in Levels III and IV constructs an ofrenda in the library and they write bilingual desciptions on index cards telling why they included the items they chose. Spanish Club made calaveras de azucar and Sociedad Honoraria Hispanica did interactive bilingual storytelling. Home Ec made Pan de Muerto y Atole, among other items. The art department did projects which they had on display, and the art students did face painting where they would paint the children's faces as happy calaveras. (I had to stress this to many of the art kids...no scary skulls! This is not Halloween!) All the classes make papel picado and we string this up through the halls. We have a booth where the kids can make flowers from tissue paper as well. We had a community member from Mexico come in and show the drama department how to do the Danza de los Viejitos, but we didn't have the masks so it didn't have its full efect. You can see some of the projects and activities with this link: http://briefcase.yahoo.com/bc/kaetea@sbcglobal.net/lst?.dir=/Festival+de+los+Muertos&.view=l Heaps, K. Re: Dia de los Muertos and service learning. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv. FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (4 Oct. 2006). |
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