HALLOWEEN

Hi my dear students, I divided the group and made 5 teams.  Each team is going to work on what I decided.  Remember to do a great job to stick on our wall next Friday 29th at 9 o´clock. You have to decorate it and stick some pictures or drawings, and do the title "THE ORIGIN OF THE HALLOWEEN".  See you later.

GRUPO 502 (5 GRUPOS)

GRUPO 1

Halloween is an annual holiday observed on October 31. It has roots in the Celtic festival of Samhain and the Christian holiday All Saints' Day, but is today largely a secular celebration.
Common Halloween activities include trick-or-treating, wearing costumes and attending costume parties, carving jack-o'-lanterns, ghost tours, bonfires, apple bobbing, visiting haunted attractions, committing pranks, telling ghost stories or other frightening tales, and watching horror films.

1	ARAUJO	RODRIGUEZ	TANIA STEPHANIE
2	ARENAS	OLGUIN	ZULEYMA JAZMIN
3	BORJA	ZAMORA	JOSE RODOLFO
4	CANALES	MARTINEZ	DIANA NAYELI
5	CASTRO	ZAVALZA	GUILLERMO ALEXIS

GRUPO 2

1. GLOSSARY

HOLIDAY: A holiday is a day designated as having special significance for which individuals, a government, or a religious group have deemed that observation is warranted. It is generally an official (more common) or unofficial observances of religious, national, or cultural significance, often accompanied by celebrations or festivities.

6	CELAYA	ARVIZU	ROBERTO JAVIER
7	CELIS	VERA	MARTHA LETICIA
8	CRUZ	LOPEZ	OCTAVIO
9	FLORES	RINCÓN	ROBERTO JAVIER
10	IBAÑEZ	FALCON	YESICA VICTORIA

GRUPO 3

CELTIC POLYTHEISM: Celtic polytheism, commonly known as Celtic paganism, refers to the religious beliefs and practices adhered to by the Iron Age peoples of Western Europe now known as the Celts. These Celtic pagans left no written records about their religion, and as such relatively little is known about this historical faith. What is known comes from contemporary accounts left by neighbouring Greek and Roman writers, later mediaeval tales written in the vernacular Celtic lands of Ireland and Wales, and archaeological evidence. These show that there was a large degree of variation within the religious beliefs of the Celtic world, affected by differences amongst different regions and tribal chiefdoms, the influence of pre-Celtic religions and by the influence of the Mediterranean cultures like Ancient Rome, although "behind this variety, broad structural similarities can be detected" allowing there to be "a basic religious homogeneity" amongst the Celtic peoples.

11	JUAREZ	CRUZ	JUDITH
12	LEONIDEZ	OLAIZ	OMAR ALFREDO
13	LINARES	ILDEFONSO	ALMA VIRIDIANA
14	MONTOYA	COQUIS	VALERIA
15	NIETO	SERRALDE	CRISTINA ITZEL

GRUPO 4

SAMHAIN: Samhain is a Gaelic festival held on October 31–November 1. The Irish name Samhain is derived from Old Irish and means roughly "summer's end". A harvest festival with ancient roots in Celtic polytheism, it was linked to festivals held around the same time in other Celtic cultures, and continued to be celebrated in late medieval times. Due to its date it became associated with the Christian festival All Saints' Day, and greatly influenced modern celebration of Halloween

16	NOLASCO	SALAS	DIANA IVONE
17	OCAMPO	CEDILLO	MARIA DE LOURDES
18	ORNELAS	LOBATO	GUADALUPE JOCELYN
19	PEREZ	GUZMAN	NAYELLI
20	POLITO	HERNANDEZ	NABIL

GRUPO 5

ALL SAINT´S DAY: All Saints' Day (in the Roman Catholic Church officially the Solemnity of All Saints and also called All Hallows or Hallowmas), often shortened to All Saints, is a solemnity celebrated on 1 November in Western Christianity, and on the first Sunday after Pentecost in Eastern Christianity, in honour of all the saints, known and unknown.
In terms of Western Christian theology, the day commemorates all those who have attained the beatific vision in Heaven. It is a national holiday in many historically Catholic countries. In the Roman Catholic Church, the next day, All Souls' Day, specifically commemorates the departed faithful who have not yet been purified and reached heaven.

21	RAMIREZ	VARGAS	GISELA
22	SANCHEZ	RAMIREZ	MAURICIO
23	SEGUNDO	MEZA	LEIDY LAURA
24	SOLORIO	GONZALEZ	JESUS IGNACIO
25	SOTO	MONTERROZA	LILIANA
26	TOVAR	CHAVEZ	BALBINA
27	TREJO	PACHECO	KASSANDRA

I am going to give you two sites if you want to search more images to decorate.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween
2. http://www.monstropedia.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
    

OCTOBER 12TH COLUMBUS DAY

Hi my dear students in this month, on October 12th we´ll be celebrating the discovery of America, called in the United States "Columbus Day". So, to widen your vocabulary, go to this link, download it, print it and take it to our class this October 12th.

http://exchanges.state.gov/englishteaching/resources-et/celebrate/federal-holidays/pdfs/columbusday.pdf