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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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CCSS: Designed
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
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Additional Tags
social studies
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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