Title: Unit 1. Lesson 3. Week 6. What defines festivities in Latin America?
Course: 2024 Basic Language Arts 2 > Section: First Trimester

Week 8.

Sessions
Session 1
What defines festivities in Latin America? What is the most important holiday in your community? Memorize the following KEYWORDS: ash, carpet, celebrity, cleanse, competition, festivity, lively, petal, procession,  and typically. Watch the video and prepare the questions for the class. Comparative Adjectives: Adjectives That Compare Two Nouns.
Interview a classmate and share your results with your class. Go to your digital Awesome Reader and Writer and read “Inti Raymi Festival: Cusco,
Peru.” Choose four key words. Listen to three people talking about their favorite celebration in their communities. My Favorite Holiday.
Write them with their definitions in the space. Then, rap the definitions to a classmate and challenge them to guess your key words. Write a list of your four favorite holidays in the space below. Then, swap books with a classmate and check the similarities and differences between your lists. Write the holiday that each person mentions. Listen again. Write “T” if the statements
are true, “F” if the statements are false, or
“N” if the information is not given.
My Favorite Holiday
Session 2 | How can you practice gratitude daily?  Memorize the following KEYWORDS: ancestor, awareness, ceremony, evolve, generation, ritual, ruin, sacrifice, stay true to, and  value. Watch the video and prepare your questions for the class. Superlative Adjectives Rules and Examples. | Work in groups of three. Create a slogan to persuade tourists to attend a famous celebration in your community. Listen to a recommendation for an important celebration in Peru. Number the topics in the order they are mentioned. Let’s Celebrate the Sun! Read “Updating the Past” and identify who would agree with each statement. | Listen again and complete the sentences. Let’s Celebrate the Sun! Work in pairs. On a sheet of paper, make a drawing that represents the meaning of the quote. “Custom is the great guide to human life.” David Hume.  Write “S” for @saveourpast and “L” for @livingculture. Read the text again. Write the phrases the writers use according to the following functions. |
Session 3 | What can you do to enforce your community's traditions. KEYWORDS: complicated, creative, exchange, far, historical, near, on display, preserve, radish, and  sculpture. Watch the video and prepare your questions for the class. COMPARATIVE & SUPERLATIVE ADJECTIVES. | Rank from “1” to “6” the criteria you use to attend a cultural event. Then, explain your reasons to a classmate. Listen to an interview about two cultural events in Oaxaca, Mexico. Use the adjectives to describe each of the festivals.  Celebrating in Community. Read the Language Key. | Listen again and complete the sentences. Celebrating in Community. Check (✔) the happy face if the sentence is corrector the sad face if the sentence is incorrect. Then, writethem correctly in your notebook.  match the base form with its Comparative and Superlative forms. Use the words to create questions about a celebration you have attended recently. Then, take turns asking and answering your questions. |
Session 4 | Do you think people continue to celebrate traditions as in the old days? Open the myON App and scan the book. | Open myON and start reading th book. Indiginous Peoples' Day. | If you didn't finish the book, finish it at home and answer the questionnaire. |
Session 5 | How do you celebrate the Fall's Festivals? Open the myON App and scan the book. | Open myON and start reading th book. Diwali. | If you didn't finish the book, finish it at home and answer the questionnaire. |