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Welcome to our curriculum Wiki for Día de los muertos! Below is an article all about what The Arts Matters Group and MCS have planned for the project. Below the article are links to very lessons and ideas to help incorporate this holiday and event into your classroom. Be sure to see the other links on the left. Be in touch if you have any questions.

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Article about our Día de los Muertos Celebrations PLEASE READ!!!!!

Online curriculum for Day of the Dead. @http://www.dogslifeproductions.com/curriculum.html

4th and 5th grade mini-lesson on Celebrations with subtopic: Día de los muertos @http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/tlresources/units/byrnes-celebrations/day.html

Art Ideas and Resources @http://www.teachersdiscovery.com/SubCategory--Spanish-Holidays--m-210

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Mexico's Day of the Dead Grade Levels:**3 - 8**

Overview
> By studying the Day of the Dead, a Mexican holiday, students gain an understanding that various cultures have differing views of life and death.

Objectives

 * Students will discuss how death is associated in our culture.
 * Students will compare and contrast U.S. attitudes toward death with those of Mexico.
 * Students will find the main idea of a paragraph.

Read more on TeacherVision: [|http://www.teachervision.fen.com/mexico/lesson-plan/3183.html#ixzz1XCfnK2ae]

Middle/ High School: Alters to the dead http://dlc.k12.ar.us/Resources/Foreign_Language/Spanish/Spanish_Projects/dodofrendas.PDF

Compare and Contrast Day of the Dead and Halloween using research and Venn Diagrams @http://tides.sfasu.edu/teachers/tides/docs/lessonplans/elementary/socialPlans/SoberonHalloween.html

Links to lesson plans and activities @http://carfamily.wordpress.com/2007/10/04/day-of-the-dead-lesson-plans-activities/

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http://www.sbma.net/uploadedfiles/Dia%20de%20los%20Muertos%20Jr.%20High%20and%20HS%20lesson%20plan.pdf