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The Mini Page — 2008 Activities
What Is Cinco de Mayo?
Issue 17
April 26-May 2
This week's standards:
- Students understand the characteristics, distribution and migration of human populations on the Earth's surface. (Geography: Human Systems)
- Students understand how historic events, people, places and situations contribute to our understanding of the past. (Social Studies: Time, Continuity and Change)
Activities:
1. Draw a large plate on a piece of paper. Cut out newspaper words and pictures for Mexican foods.
Paste the foods on your plate. Put a star by your favorite food.
2. Plan a Cinco de Mayo party. Use the newspaper to find food you would serve at your party, the entertainment you would hire and three people you would invite. Explain your choices.
3. Use a colored marker to circle examples of Mexico-U.S. connections in the newspaper. Look for names of people or places, arts or entertainment opportunities, sporting events, and government relations between the United States and Mexico.
4. See if you could organize a mariachi band. Look in the classified ads of the newspaper to find trumpets, violins and guitars for sale. Look for a place where you could take music lessons to learn to play the instruments. Finally, see if you can find any ads for musicians.
5. Use resource books and the Internet to learn more about Benito Juarez.
Use these questions to guide your research: Who was Juarez? What was his childhood like? How did he become the leader of Mexico? What did he do for the people of Mexico? Why is he honored? Write a paragraph discussing your findings.
Standards by Dr. Sherrye D. Garrett, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
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