Dia De Los Muertos

1. Dia de Los Muertos is celebrated to pray and remember friends and relatives who have passed away. Also to welcome them back to their already passed life.




2. Dia de Los Muertos is celebrated on November 1 and November 2. The festivities of Dia de Los Muertos begin one a week before the1st and the 2nd.




3. The festivities are held in every city's market.




4. The altars are set on tables wrapped with a tablecloth. Sugarcane is attached to foot of the table and it runs at the top of the table forming an arch. There are pictures of your loved ones, and sugar skulls.. There's lots of bread and Cempasuchil flowers(Flower of the dead), crosses, and candles.




5. Comparsas are theatrical performances representing the return of the dead.




6. On the day of the dead the living people go to cemeteries to visit their dead loved ones. They usually take food and drinks to share with the returned dead people.

1. History Del Dia De Los Muertos:

500 years ago the Spanish landed in Mexico and caught natives practicing a ritual that seemed to be mocking the dead. The indigenous had practiced this ritual for 3,000 years. Day of the Dead was started by the indigenous peoples. The festival landed on the ninth month of the Aztec calender.

1. Other Interesting facts:

• people cooked many different dishes such as mole negro, pan de muerto, pumpkin with black sugar, tejocotes, and many more.


• People belief that the dead arrive on earth tired and thirsty after their long pilgrimage so they pour a glass filled with water and other food offerings for them.


• People go to the cemeteries to communicate with the departed.

D.O.L

1. Juan doesn't know what to be for Halloween, but the girls think he should be a bumble bee.
2. Connie said, "Juan you should be cantinflas, it'll be funny!"

1. San Diego, San Diego County, California, United States of America, North America

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Life as an Egyptian-Being Born

• Egyptian mothers giving birth were helped by nurses and midwives.
• Nurses or midwives were usually members of the mothers family.
• midwives:a person who assists at childbirth
• Women gave birth in a place made of poles and branches, roofed w/ reed matting.
• This place was built on the roof of their own house, courtyard, or garden.
• The mother and the baby stayed there for fourteen days after birth.
• The fourteen days allowed the mother to give the baby full attention, kept the mother from housework, and helped to cut the risk of getting an infection.
• Childbirth was risky.
• Having babies too soon increased the chances of either the baby or the mother would die.
• Repeated childbirth increased the dander of later births.
• Babies that died at birth or after birth were thrown to the crocodiles or left at the edge of the desert for hyenas to eat.
• Older babies were buried under the house wrapped in linen or palm leaves.
• Babies were rarely mummified in the same way as older children and adults.
• mummified:preserved for a dead body
• Women prayed to the goddess Taweret who brought babies to the childless.

• Giving birth in ancient egypt was different from today. mow days we give birth in hospitals, and back then you would give birth in your rooftop. Women are still helped by nurses or midwives though. Babies that died after birth were thrown to the crocodiles and now we bury babies instead. Being born was very different back then.

Old Stone Age v.s New Stone Age

Old Stone Age:

• people used stones for knives
• stones for axes
• spear points
• bones used for needles and fish hooks

New Stone Age:

• set up villiages/small communities
• learned to work w/metals:weapons, tools, jewelery
• invention of wheels
• creation of calenders
• war
• Religions
• Governments