Holiday Sites
Susan Dusman
PROJECT OBJECTIVES:
- Students will recognize that certain cultures have celebrations unique to them.
- Students will recognize that a holiday celebrated by one ethnic culture may be honored in many countries as the cultural group disperses among different areas.
- Students will become familiar with a foreign language present in the Latino culture, and will be able to pronounce some words, as well as identify their meanings.
- Students will create their own poems about a cultural celebration.
- Students will recognize that certain values and beliefs may be shared and reinforced through a celebration.
General Reference Sites
Calendars
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0875653.html
Selected National Holidays Around the World, 2002 and 2003
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0777535.html
Major Holidays
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0875655.html
Holidays on the Net
http://www.holidays.net/index.htm
Into the heart of the Southwest
A look at some of the groups that are key to Arizona's diverse cultural and ethnic heritage.
http://www.azcentral.com/culturesaz/
Guadalupe Day
Our Lady of Guadalupe
http://www.azcentral.com/culturesaz/hispanic/guadalupe.shtml
The story of the blessed apparitionsGuadalupe Day
http://www2.worldbook.com/features/holidays/html/guadel.htm
Our Lady of Guadalupe
http://www.bigchalk.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/WOPortal.woa/wa/HWCDA/file?fileid=224227&flt=Middle_School&pathTitles=/Festivals/December_12_Guadalupe_Day/The_Story_of_Our_Lady_of_Guadelupe&version=2&tg=Religion
Virgin of Guadalupe Day
http://www.vivasancarlos.com/virgin.html
Santa Lucia Day
Santa Lucia Day
http://www.umkc.edu/imc/stlucia.htm
Santa Lucia Day
http://www.jeannepasero.com/Christmas/december13.html
Holiday: Lucia Day, December 13
http://www.swedishkitchen.com/lucia.html
Santa Lucia Day
http://www2.worldbook.com/features/holidays/html/lucia.htm
Swedish Holidays
http://www.anthro.mankato.msus.edu/history/mnstatehistory/sw_holidays.html
PONGAL
PONGAL http://www.indianwomenonline.com/womenhome/indianmosaic/festival/Pongal/pongal.asp
Pongal Festival on Makara Sankranti
http://www.salagram.net/parishad143.html
Makara Sakranti
http://www.holidayfestival.com/hindu/Makara.html
Pongal - The harvest festival of Tamil Nadu / India
http://209.52.189.2/article.cfm/hinduism/28717
Il Palio
Il Palio
http://www.initaly.com/ads/palio/palio.htm
The Dirt Goes Down: Siena's Palio
http://www.firenze.net/events/culture/palio.htm
Siena's Palio Horse Race
http://www.premier.net/~Italy/palio.htm
The Palio of Siena
http://www.cc.utah.edu/~dwr7464/palio.html
St. Patrick's Day
St. Patrick's Day
http://www.st-patricks-day.com/index.asp
St. Patrick's Day
http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/patrick/history.html
St. Patrick's Day
http://www.tartanplace.com/stpat.html
St. Patrick's Day - Customs and Traditions
http://wilstar.com/holidays/patrick.htm
St. Patrick's day celebrations at TheHolidaySpot
http://www.theholidayspot.com/patrick/
Vietnam - Tet - New Year's Day
Vietnam - Tet - New Year's Day
http://www.web-holidays.com/tet/
Tet - New Year's Day
http://www.vietnamtourism.com/e_pages/vietnam/introduction/people_customer/tet_nguyen_dan.htm
Tet - New Year's Day
http://www.limsi.fr/Recherche/CIG/etet1.htm
Tet - New Year's Day
http://www.loveofasiavietnam.com/TET_new_year.htm
Vietnamese Customs Vietnam HolidaysTet (Vietnamese New Year)
http://web.buddyproject.org/web009/web009/infostation.html#anchor33528
Tet - New Year's Day
http://www.saigon.com/~nguyent/tet.html
TET Home
http://www.van-online.org/events/tet/tet1.html
Bastille Day
Bastille Day
http://www.info-france-usa.org/atoz/14july.asp
Bastille Day
http://www.web-holidays.com/bastille/
Bastille Day
14 July - A National Holiday in France
http://www.hightowertrail.com/Bastil.htm
Bastille Day
http://homepage.powerup.com.au/~rdale/bastille.htm
Bastille Day - The French Fourth
http://infoplease.com/spot/99bastilleday.html
What's so revolutionary about Bastille Day?Bastille Day
http://www.progress.org/archive/fold46.htm
TIMKET - (Epiphany)
TIMKET - (Epiphany)
http://www.ethiopianriftvalleysafaris.com/timket.htm
Ethiopian New Year (Enkutatash)
http://www.tourismethiopia.org/pages/detail/detailfestival.asp
Timket
http://www.ethiospokes.net/Backgrnd/b1211987.htm
Timket
http://www.ethiopiafirst.com/news2000/Dec/the_awesome_power_of_the_arks.html
Timket
http://www.newafrica.com/travel/ethiopia/festivals.asp
Egypt - Ramadan
Egypt - Ramadan
http://www.holidays.net/ramadan/
Egypt - Ramadan
http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/pillars/fasting/tajuddin/fast_1.html
Essentials of Ramadan, The Fasting MonthEgypt - Ramadan - RAMADAN, THE FASTING MONTH
http://www.submission.org/teachers/ramadan.html
Egypt - Ramadan: Rules & Regulations
http://isd.usc.edu/~jnawaz/ISLAM/PILLARS/FastFiqh.html
Egypt - Ramadan - Islamic Holidays and Observances
http://www.colostate.edu/Orgs/MSA/events/Ramadan.html
Egypt - Ramadan
http://www.holidayfestival.com/Islam.html
Cinco de Mayo
Mexican Holidays: Cinco de Mayo
http://www.mexonline.com/cinco.htm
CINCO DE MAYO HISTORY
http://www.vivacincodemayo.org/history.htm
Cinco de Mayo
http://latino.sscnet.ucla.edu/demo/cinco.html
Cinco de Mayo
http://www.inside-mexico.com/featurecinco.htm
Day of the Dead
What do Mexicans celebrate on the "Day of the Dead?"
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~rjsalvad/scmfaq/muertos.html
Indigenous people wouldn't let 'Day of the Dead' die
http://www.azcentral.com/ent/dead/history/
Day of the Dead - Día de los Muertos
http://www.mexonline.com/daydead.htm
El Dia de los Muertos - Day of the Dead
http://www.usc.edu/isd/locations/ssh/boeckmann/Dead/
Day of the Dead/Día de los Muertos
http://www.sat.lib.tx.us/html/DeadDay/ontheday.htm
Common Misconceptions - About the Day of the Dead Celebrations
http://www.inside-mexico.com/noes.htm
The Day of the Dead
http://www.peoplesguide.com/1pages/chapts/viva/dodead/bobbi/dodbobi.html
Glossary of Words for Day of the Dead
http://www.usc.edu/isd/archives/ethnicstudies/day_dead_glossary.html