Discovering The Art Of Mexican Calacas

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Discovering The Art Of Mexican Calacas
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The Day of the Dead
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El Dia De Los Muertos
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What Are The Roots Of This Mexican Celebration?
For Some History- Do The Research!!

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Key Historical Facts

Mexican Guatemalan Holiday The
visiting of ancestors Links to the Aztec
Culture Influences of Christianity
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How is it Celebrated?
The Event!!!

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The name of this cultural holiday is
On this holiday the following happens
Fill in three additional facts you learned
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The Art Work
Lets Make Dancing Calacas
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A Calaca is a skeleton!!!! So lets draw a
skeleton from life
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Simplify your drawing
Draw This .. Or This
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Students making Latin American calacas.


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Finished Calacas

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The End
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Credits

• Web sites
• http//www.holidays.net/halloween/muertos.htm
• Studio Melizo, "Halloween on the Net - Los Dias
  De Los Muertos.
• Holidays on the Net. 2007. Holidays on the
  Net. 14 Oct 2007 lthttp//www.holidays.net/dayofthe
  dead/index.htmgt.
• Azcentral.com, "Day of the Dead In Mexico." Dia
  De Los Muertos. 2005. Azcentral.com. 15 Oct 2007
• United StreamingHttp//streaming.discoveryedu
  cation.com/search/assetDetail.gfix.quid
• YOUTube Day of the Dead
• Books
• The Festival Of Bones / Luis San Vuncente El
  Festival de Las Calaveras
• The Little Bitty Book for the Days of the
  Dead
• Day of The Dead By Tony Johnson
• Images
• "skeleton gifs." Gif.net. 2007. Gif.net. 14 Oct
  2007 lthttp//www.gifs.net/Animation11/Science_and_
  Body/Bones_and_
• Skulls/dancing_
• skeleton.gifimgref
• Skeleton figure
• Checkhttp//www.azcentral.com/ent/dead/his
  tory/