Day of the Dead Assignment

Instructions

1. Open a Word document and type your name, date, and add a title (layout this information the same way as your Airplane assignment). Your title should include "Day of the Dead" and the name of your country. ("Day of the Dead in ____" is a great way to go).

2. Write up a report that answers as many of the following questions as possible*:

Origins
- How/why did people start celebrating Day of the Dead in your country?
- When did people start celebrating? (recently, hundreds of years ago, after a certain event happened...)

Traditions
- How do people celebrate? (Do they visit cemeteries, eat certain foods, NOT do certain things? How do they decorate? Are specific colors associated with the day? A certain symbol? etc.)
- Are any of these traditions specific to your country?

- Why do they celebrate in this way? (For example, if I was doing a report on Easter, which celebrates the resurrection of Jesus, I would write that eggs are a symbol of rebirth and spring, and thus why this food has become associated with the day).

- About how many people celebrate out of the total population?

*NOTE: You may not be able to find some of the answers to these questions. But if I can find the answers within five minutes of searching, you aren't off the hook and should have them.

3. Find a color picture or two and paste it/them into the assignment.

Good luck!
Miss Valerie