El Día de los Muertos Lesson Plan

Sequence of Class Procedures

• teacher greets students;
• opening song
• calendar activity.

2. Las actividades del día:

• introduce the holiday El Día de los Muertos (All Souls' Day);
• El Día de los Muertos roll-in;
• La ofrenda activity sheets Page 1 and Page 2;
• learn the poem, Calaveras and show calaveras de azúcar.
• while making la máscara de calavera, review colors and shapes.

3. El repaso: review.

4. La despedida: good-bye song.

RECOMMENDED FOLLOW-UP ACTIVITIES

• This unit focuses on the geography of the United States. I encourage you to build upon the skills and knowledge of your students in their primary language while incorporating these second language acquisition activities. There are many cognates that will help with comprehension of the material.
• We also have a special Mexican Holiday Video Series which includes a half-hour, in-depth look at El Día de los Muertos. See the Bibliography for details.

Parent Participation

• Students can share their knowledge of a foreign culture with their parents by taking home things that they made in today's class.