EL DIA DE LOS MUERTOS: PROYECTO DE ALTAR
(SEE BELOW FOR A LIST OF PEOPLE YOU CAN CHOOSE TO HONOUR, if you want to pick someone else just check with me first!)
Para este proyecto tu vas a celebrar la vida de una persona muerta con un ALTAR. Toda la clase va a presentar los altares en el foyer de Tupper para la celebración del Día de los Muertos en la escuela. La celebración es ___________ el ____ de noviembre. Puedes trabajar solo, o en grupo de dos.
¿Qué hay que hacer?
Line 2: Quien era (who was…)
Line 3: Quien era familiar de (who was a relative of….)
Line 4: Quien trabajaba en/para (who worked for/towards….)
Line 5: A quien le gustaba (who liked....)
Line 6: Quien sentía (Who felt…)
Line 7: Quien necesitaba… (Who needed…)
Line 8: Quien daba… (Who gave…)
Line 9: Quien tenía miedo a (Who was scaerd of….)
Line 10: Quien quería (Who wanted…)
Line 11: Un sinónimo (nickname, role, synonym)
Line 12: Quien vivía en (Who lived in…)
Line 13: Apellido (Last name)
3. Preparar un altar para honrar a esta persona. Su altar debe tener:
1) Las imagenes aztecas como:
la tierra (fruta y flores) el viento (papel picado)
el fuego (las velas) el agua
2) Una calavera que representa la persona
3) Una foto de la persona
4) Una pequeña hoja de información en ingles:
This should include the 5 W’s (Who was this person; What did they do in their lives; Where did they live; When did they live; Why are you celebrating them)
Lista de posibles personas
¡BUSCA ALGUIEN QUE TE INTERESA!
Berta Caceres: Honduran human rights and environmental activist, murdered in 2016.
Fernando Salazar: Indigenous Emberá–Chamí leader who defended his community in the face of gold-mining development, was shot in front of his home in 2016.
Roberto Clemente: Professional baseball player from Puerto Rico, died in a plane clash while delivering aid to earthquake victims in Nicaragua in 1972.
Celia Cruz: Cuban-American, ‘Queen of Salsa Music’
Selena: famous Tejana singer killed at age 23
Ritchie Valens: Singer who made the song ‘La Bamba' famous; killed in a plane crash
Diego Rivera: Famous Mexican painter/muralist
Frida Kahlo: Very famous Mexican artist, pop culture icon
Pablo Picasso: famous Spanish artist
Tito Puente: famous Latin jazz and salsa musician
Miguel de Cervantes: He wrote the famous book ‘Don Quijote’
Pablo Casals: Spanish cello virtuoso
Facundo Cabral: Argentinian singer and peace activist recently killed in Guatemala
Roberto Clemente: famous Puerto Rican baseball player
El Greco: Considered one of the most famous artists in history
Benito Juarez: One of Mexico’s most famous national heroes
Muna Lee: Puerto Rican based writer and feminist
Miguel Angel Asturias: famous Guatemalan Nobel Prize winning author
Salvador Dalí: very famous Spanish painter
Hugo Chavez: Venezuelan president who died of cancer in 2013
Loreta Janeta Velázquez: Cuban American who disguised herself as a man in order to fight in the army
Simon Bolivar: Venezuelan political leader who was instrumental in many countries declaring their independence from Spain
Juan Gerardi: Guatemalan human rights defender and priest who was killed by the army
Juana la Loca: Spanish queen who was kept in forced confinement and then labeled as ‘mad’
Federico García Lorca: Spanish poet shot by anti-Communist death squads
Nicolás Guillen: Cuban poet and political activist
Che Guevara: Che was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, intellectual, guerrilla leader, diplomat, military theorist, and major figure of the Cuban Revolution.
Eva (Evita) Peron: First Lady of Argentina until her death in 1952 who was a staunch supporter of worker’s rights and women’s rights.
Oscar Romero: Catholic bishop in El Salvador who criticized many human rights abuses by the military and was assassinated by a military death squad.
Pablo Neruda: Chilean poet who is considered one of the greatest and most influential poets of the 20th century.
Emiliano Zapata: A leading figure in the Mexican Revolution who fought for the rights of the peasant workers.
Mercedes Sosa: She was an Argentine singer who was popular throughout Latin America and internationally. It is said that she "fought South America's dictators with her voice.”
Chavela Vargas: Costa-Rican born Mexican singer who became famous for her singing of Mexican rancheras.
Cesar Chavez: He was a Mexican American farm worker, labor leader, and civil rights activist
M Isolina Ferre (1914 – 2000): She was a Puerto Rican nun who worked for over 65 years with the urban and rural poor of the United States and Puerto Rico.
Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez: She was a conspirator and heroine of the Mexican War of Independence in the early 19th century.
Victor Jarra: Chilean teacher, poet, singer-songwriter, political activist who was arrested, tortured and killed by the military.
José Marti : He was one of Cuba’s national heroes, poet and teacher who became a symbol of Cuba’s fight for independence against Spain.
Bartolome de las Casas: considered one of the earliest advocates of universal human rights. One of the first to fight against the abuse of the indigenous people at the hands of the Spanish colonists.
Esther Chavez Cano: An accountant who moved to the border town of Ciudad Juárez and was one of the first to document the hundreds of women were being killed and disappeared.
Gabriela Mistral: She was one of Latin American’s greatest poets, together with being a prominent educator and feminist.
Julia de Burgos: Considered to be one of the greatest Latin American poets.
Salvador Allende: Socialist president of Chile who was either killed or committed suicide when the Chilean army, supported by the U.S., committed a coup against him in 1973.
Violetta Parra: Chilean folksinger, composer, song-writer.
El Santo - Most famous luchador (Mexcian masked wrestler) of all time.
The Mirabal sisters -three sisters who opposed the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic and were assassinated.
(SEE BELOW FOR A LIST OF PEOPLE YOU CAN CHOOSE TO HONOUR, if you want to pick someone else just check with me first!)
Para este proyecto tu vas a celebrar la vida de una persona muerta con un ALTAR. Toda la clase va a presentar los altares en el foyer de Tupper para la celebración del Día de los Muertos en la escuela. La celebración es ___________ el ____ de noviembre. Puedes trabajar solo, o en grupo de dos.
¿Qué hay que hacer?
- Elejir (choose) a una persona. Aprender sobre su vida. Puede ser una persona famosa del mundo hispano, o una persona que tú conociste (that you knew).
- Escribir un “bio-poema” sobre la persona (15 puntos). Los criterios son:
Line 2: Quien era (who was…)
Line 3: Quien era familiar de (who was a relative of….)
Line 4: Quien trabajaba en/para (who worked for/towards….)
Line 5: A quien le gustaba (who liked....)
Line 6: Quien sentía (Who felt…)
Line 7: Quien necesitaba… (Who needed…)
Line 8: Quien daba… (Who gave…)
Line 9: Quien tenía miedo a (Who was scaerd of….)
Line 10: Quien quería (Who wanted…)
Line 11: Un sinónimo (nickname, role, synonym)
Line 12: Quien vivía en (Who lived in…)
Line 13: Apellido (Last name)
3. Preparar un altar para honrar a esta persona. Su altar debe tener:
1) Las imagenes aztecas como:
la tierra (fruta y flores) el viento (papel picado)
el fuego (las velas) el agua
2) Una calavera que representa la persona
3) Una foto de la persona
4) Una pequeña hoja de información en ingles:
This should include the 5 W’s (Who was this person; What did they do in their lives; Where did they live; When did they live; Why are you celebrating them)
Lista de posibles personas
¡BUSCA ALGUIEN QUE TE INTERESA!
Berta Caceres: Honduran human rights and environmental activist, murdered in 2016.
Fernando Salazar: Indigenous Emberá–Chamí leader who defended his community in the face of gold-mining development, was shot in front of his home in 2016.
Roberto Clemente: Professional baseball player from Puerto Rico, died in a plane clash while delivering aid to earthquake victims in Nicaragua in 1972.
Celia Cruz: Cuban-American, ‘Queen of Salsa Music’
Selena: famous Tejana singer killed at age 23
Ritchie Valens: Singer who made the song ‘La Bamba' famous; killed in a plane crash
Diego Rivera: Famous Mexican painter/muralist
Frida Kahlo: Very famous Mexican artist, pop culture icon
Pablo Picasso: famous Spanish artist
Tito Puente: famous Latin jazz and salsa musician
Miguel de Cervantes: He wrote the famous book ‘Don Quijote’
Pablo Casals: Spanish cello virtuoso
Facundo Cabral: Argentinian singer and peace activist recently killed in Guatemala
Roberto Clemente: famous Puerto Rican baseball player
El Greco: Considered one of the most famous artists in history
Benito Juarez: One of Mexico’s most famous national heroes
Muna Lee: Puerto Rican based writer and feminist
Miguel Angel Asturias: famous Guatemalan Nobel Prize winning author
Salvador Dalí: very famous Spanish painter
Hugo Chavez: Venezuelan president who died of cancer in 2013
Loreta Janeta Velázquez: Cuban American who disguised herself as a man in order to fight in the army
Simon Bolivar: Venezuelan political leader who was instrumental in many countries declaring their independence from Spain
Juan Gerardi: Guatemalan human rights defender and priest who was killed by the army
Juana la Loca: Spanish queen who was kept in forced confinement and then labeled as ‘mad’
Federico García Lorca: Spanish poet shot by anti-Communist death squads
Nicolás Guillen: Cuban poet and political activist
Che Guevara: Che was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, intellectual, guerrilla leader, diplomat, military theorist, and major figure of the Cuban Revolution.
Eva (Evita) Peron: First Lady of Argentina until her death in 1952 who was a staunch supporter of worker’s rights and women’s rights.
Oscar Romero: Catholic bishop in El Salvador who criticized many human rights abuses by the military and was assassinated by a military death squad.
Pablo Neruda: Chilean poet who is considered one of the greatest and most influential poets of the 20th century.
Emiliano Zapata: A leading figure in the Mexican Revolution who fought for the rights of the peasant workers.
Mercedes Sosa: She was an Argentine singer who was popular throughout Latin America and internationally. It is said that she "fought South America's dictators with her voice.”
Chavela Vargas: Costa-Rican born Mexican singer who became famous for her singing of Mexican rancheras.
Cesar Chavez: He was a Mexican American farm worker, labor leader, and civil rights activist
M Isolina Ferre (1914 – 2000): She was a Puerto Rican nun who worked for over 65 years with the urban and rural poor of the United States and Puerto Rico.
Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez: She was a conspirator and heroine of the Mexican War of Independence in the early 19th century.
Victor Jarra: Chilean teacher, poet, singer-songwriter, political activist who was arrested, tortured and killed by the military.
José Marti : He was one of Cuba’s national heroes, poet and teacher who became a symbol of Cuba’s fight for independence against Spain.
Bartolome de las Casas: considered one of the earliest advocates of universal human rights. One of the first to fight against the abuse of the indigenous people at the hands of the Spanish colonists.
Esther Chavez Cano: An accountant who moved to the border town of Ciudad Juárez and was one of the first to document the hundreds of women were being killed and disappeared.
Gabriela Mistral: She was one of Latin American’s greatest poets, together with being a prominent educator and feminist.
Julia de Burgos: Considered to be one of the greatest Latin American poets.
Salvador Allende: Socialist president of Chile who was either killed or committed suicide when the Chilean army, supported by the U.S., committed a coup against him in 1973.
Violetta Parra: Chilean folksinger, composer, song-writer.
El Santo - Most famous luchador (Mexcian masked wrestler) of all time.
The Mirabal sisters -three sisters who opposed the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic and were assassinated.