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Dia de los Muertos: Honoring our Ancestors Through Community Celebration Lesson PlanDia de los Muertos: Honoring our Ancestors Through Community Celebration Lesson Plan
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Dia de los Muertos: Honoring our Ancestors Through Community Celebration

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Oral storytelling has been an important part of every culture. The time-honored practice uses stories as a conduit for a culture's values and customs from one generation to the next. Keep the tradition going with a family interview project that incorporates El Dia De Los Muertos as a model for individual students' family celebrations.

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Concepts

dia de los muertos, ancestors, heritage, world holidays, holiday celebrations, family, family trees, cultural traditions, family traditions, mexican culture, hispanic culture, latino culture, oral tradition

Additional Tags

social studies

Instructional Ideas

  • Distribute the link to the docs for learners to make their own digital copies in Google Docs

Classroom Considerations

  • Refer to page 8 for links to downloadable and editable versions of the worksheet
  • Requires background knowledge of El Dia de los Muertos

Pros

  • Contains links to the publisher's social media pages for additional research and materials (page 16-17)

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RH.11-12.7 RH.11-12.9

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