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Discussion questions og gode ideer til arbejdet med graphic novels & sprog

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Discussion questions og gode ideer til arbejdet med graphic novels & sprog

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25 vocabulary flashcards with pictures - engelsk/engelsk

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25 vocabulary flashcards with pictures - engelsk/engelsk

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Word search contains 20 words. Print, save as a PDF or Word Doc. Add your own answers, images, and more. Choose from 500,000+ puzzles.

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Engelsk termer for graphic novels, discussion questions, skriftlige opgaver m.m.

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Engelsk termer for graphic novels, discussion questions, skriftlige opgaver m.m.

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Læs om bogen og dens temaer + grafisk opgave

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Læs om bogen og dens temaer + grafisk opgave

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Diamond BookShelf - Graphic Novel Resource for Libraries

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Publisher: Graphix Format: Hardcover/Softcover, 5.5 x 8, 256 pages, Full Color, $24.99/$10.99 ISBN: HC: 9780545540612/SC: 9780545540629 Review Over the past six years of writing this monthly column I have reviewed and written lesson plans for nearly 300 graphic novels. That said, this is the very first review I will write alongside and with the gracious

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Inspiration og ressourcer til forløb om Day of the Dead

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Inspiration og ressourcer til forløb om Day of the Dead

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As much as the littles (and even not-so-littles) love , it can get pretty tedious making the same old skele-pumpki-spiders every year. Luckily, ever since Disney´s gorgeous film Coco topped the box office a few years ago, Día de los Muertos is becoming more and more known in pop culture, making students even more keen to learn about it.

Born and raised in Los Angeles , I've always been mesmerized by the colorful Día de los Muertos celebrations that are held all around the city and throughout SoCal. Brightly painted calaveras and the powdery sweetness of freshly baked pan de muerto . The intoxicating aroma of thousands of marigolds decorating elaborate altars dedicated to loved ones and the soundtrack of traditional rancheros . It all brings back happy memories of blistery October nights at the annual festivals in Santa Ana and Olvera Street in the heart of DTLA, and it´s definitely something I enjoy sharing with the little Spanish señorit@s.

The role of the Language Assistant in Spain (and in many foreign English teaching posts) defines us as cultural ambassadors . Coming from the American southwest, I firmly believe that our culture is not made up of just candy corn and Easter eggs, but more importantly the various textures of many backgrounds woven together that make our corner of the world so richly cultured and colorful . Especially when teaching in countries with less diversity, I think it's imperative that we make an effort to showcase our rich cultural diversity. Introducing students to new and exciting celebrations encourages curiosity and respect for cultures that they likely aren't very familiar with.

Halloween or Day of the Dead?
Do Both!

The kiddos will definitely be bummed if you skip out on the annual Halloween lesson, so instead of a swap, aim for two back to back culture classes, one focused on Halloween and the other on Day of the Dead.

I always use this incredible video (song by Voltaire, art by Ritxi Ostáriz) as a warm up. It's a great way to give them a glimpse of the colorful celebrations and practice describing what they see using the present continuous ("They are playing trombone." "He is wearing a traditional Mexican hat." etc). It sets the tone for the class and they can guess what cultural event you´re going to be talking about.

Day of the Dead Activities for Primary Students

(10 - 11 years)

I typically introduce Día de los Muertos at age 10 (5 th of primary), at which point they´ve already done the Halloween thing time and again and can understand that these are two separate holidays. With these littler dudes, I do Halloween first and build off of that to introduce Day of the Dead.

I'm a huge fan of the old jointed skeleton puppets connected by brads, so I use these as the Halloween activity. (Click here for details and the rest of my Halloween goodies ).

They should be able to complete the skeleton puppets in one class period and can display them in the classroom until the following day, when we'll bring them back to life.

As a warm up, I present Día de los Muertos with this awesome video (see above).

I ask them to pay special attention to the colors, clothes and designs used in the video, pointing out the bright, happy colors meant as a celebration of life, rather than the sadness typically associated with death as in All Saint´s Day, or the spooky colors of Halloween.

We talk a bit about what it means to ¨ celebrate life ¨ of those that have passed on, and a bit about the origins of the holiday and how it´s celebrated. I like to use lots of pictures of Day of the Dead in Mexico and California, like the big celebrations at Olvera Street and the Hollywood Forever cemetary in Los Angeles.

For the remaining class period, the students decorate their skeleton puppets from the previous week, changing them from spooky bone-white skeletons to fun-loving Day of the Dead dancing machines, complete with colorful floral skulls.

Day of the Dead Activities for Secondary Students

Sugar Skulls
(12-14 years)

I used to use the same awesome video to warm up with these guys (what can I say, I'm a fan!), but as Coco has become such a hit, last year I switched to the Coco Trailer to get them in the mood.

After talking about what they've seen in the video, I ask them to tell me anything they may know about the holiday, where it comes from, what they're celebrating and to point out some key vocabulary.

While I normally preach against overusing PowerPoints to present holidays ( culture lessons should be fun! ), I make an exception in cases such as this, where it's likely to be the first time they've ever really heard anything about Día de los Muertos.

Still, I keep it short and sweet (about 15 minutes of information input, max), providing some brief background information, relevant vocabulary (colourful, skulls, pass away, loved ones, etc.) and lots of images of the elaborate altars and infamous sugar skulls, which have gained popularity here in Spain over the last few years.

This is a perfect opportunity to practice describing pictures (a biggie for schools aiming to prepare Cambridge, Trinity or other standardized English exams). Day of the Dead celebrations are vibrant and full of details from colorful flags to vivid clothes and ornate altars, giving them plenty to talk about.

Beforehand, I prepare copies of 5 or 6 different sugar skull coloring sheets and encourage participation by allowing people who participate more to choose their sugar skull first. The rest of the class is spent decorating the skulls while playing various Day of the Dead videos in the background.

They finish the skulls at home and cut them out to make masks for a quickie class selfie before hanging them up in the hallway or classroom.

Day of the Dead for Older Teens

(14+ years)

While the older teens maybe a bit too sk-cool-ll (see what I did there?? 😉💀) to get down with the arts and crafts aspect, there´s still plenty of opportunities to bring Day of the Dead into the classroom, for example:

Picture descriptions (B1 level)

Picture descriptions - comparing and contrasting Day of the Dead with Halloween or with All Saint´s Day (B2+ level)

Class discussions (or debates) on their opinions of celebrating life as opposed to fearing or mourning death

Using videos of Día de los Muertos celebrations as listening activities (gap fill, questions answer, etc). There are tons of resources on youtube and below!

Here in the Canary Islands, we celebrate another festival called Finaos which is somewhat a mix between All Saint´s Day and Día de los Muertos. Last year I had them do a 3 way ven diagram comparing and contrasting the three holidays.

And all that being said, some of the older kids still get down on some good old fashioned arts & crafts. You know your students, so if you think they´d be down for some creative coloring, it never hurts to let them escape from the hard life of exams and test prep and get their creativity on for a day. Last year I brought the little guys´ sugar skull photocopies with me to a class of stressed and depressed seniors and they begged to let me color them. Wine not 🍷🤷?

Miscellaneous Day of the Dead Resources

TeacherVision.com is awesome and houses tons of resources, including some great videos.

Red Ted Art has adorable skeleton puppets and great examples to show your students.

The Book of Life is a 2014 animated film by Reel FX Creative movie that many of your students may have seen and has some great artwork to give them an idea of typical colors and designs.

Coco is Disney´s 2017 animated tale of a boy who accidently crosses over to the land of the dead. The artwork is stunning and the storyline is fantastic (last year lots of my students went to see it in the cinema after learning about the holiday with me!)

Do You Teach About the Day of the Dead?

Have you ever taught Day of the Dead abroad? I'd love to hear about some of the activities you've done! For more autumn activities for your ESL classroom:

Creep it real!

Erica 💀

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Day of the Dead Lesson Plans & Activities

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As much as the littles (and even not-so-littles) love Halloween, it can get pretty tedious making the same old skele-pumpki-spiders every year. Coming from Los Angeles, I've always been mesmerized by the colorful Día de los Muertos celebrations that are held all around the city and throughout SoCal.

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A Guide to Using Graphic Novels with Children and Teens

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A Guide to Using Graphic Novels with Children and Teens

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Ghosts by Raina Telgemeier quiz for 8th grade students. Find other quizzes for English and more on Quizizz for free!

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56 flashcard questions + svar - kan læses højt

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56 flashcard questions + svar - kan læses højt

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42 flashcard questions som kan ændres til andre opgavetyper & spil + højtlæsning

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42 flashcard questions som kan ændres til andre opgavetyper & spil + højtlæsning

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Study free flashcards about Ghosts created by 5+readers to improve your grades. Matching game, word search puzzle, and hangman also available.

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Inspiration til et anderledes video book review

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Indholdsbeskrivelse:
Historien følger en 12-årig dreng, Miguel, hvis familie hader musik. Det eneste, Miguel drømmer om, er at spille guitar i byens talentkonkurrence på de dødes dag. Noget går imidlertid helt galt, og pludselig befinder han sig i de dødes rige, hvor han søger hjælp hos sin afdøde tipoldefar, så han kan komme tilbage til de levendes verden og følge sin drøm om at blive musiker.

Coco er en amerikansk computeranimeret fantasy film produceret af Pixar Animation Studios and udgivet af Walt Disney Pictures. Tegnefilmen er inspireret af den mexikanske højtid og tradition, Day of the Dead. Disney forsøgte i forbindelse med med udgivelse af filmen at få copyright på termen, Day of the Dead/Dia de los Muertos, en mexikansk højtid, hvor man fejrer sin afdøde forfædre. Forsøget førte til udbredt kritik i den hispaniske mindretal og i USA generelt. For at mildne denne kritik, ansatte Pixar flere konsulenter og kulturpersonligheder med baggrund i den mexikanske kultur i forbindelse med filmproduktionen.
Oplagte temaer at arbejde med er : Halloween versus Day of the Dead, The Power of Music, Follow Your Dreams, Family og Ghosts.
Under supplerende materialer finder du inspiration til et engelskforløb om Day of the Dead, de festlige og farverige traditioner, der især holdes i hævd af det store hispaniske mindretal i den sydvestlige del af USA. Her findes også et udvalg af videoopgaver til filmens trailer og andre filmscener på ISL Collective samt en opgave til een af filmens centrale sange.

Hent filmplakaten her:

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Historien følger en 12-årig dreng, Miguel, hvis familie hader musik. Det eneste, Miguel drømmer om, er at spille guitar i byens talentkonkurrence på de dødes dag. Noget går imidlertid helt galt, og pludselig befinder han sig i de dødes rige, hvor han søger hjælp hos sin afdøde tipoldefar, så han kan komme tilbage til de levendes verden og følge sin drøm om at blive musiker.

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'Ghosts' Takes On A Tough Topic For Children - podcast om bogen

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'Ghosts' Takes On A Tough Topic For Children - podcast om bogen

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Raina Telgemeier's new graphic novel Ghosts is about death. But it's written for children.

Telgemeier tells NPR's books editor Barrie Hardymon that stories serve as a way to begin difficult conversations. "Stories are such a powerful way of communicating ideas and in comforting people," she says.

Telgemeier has been writing and drawing graphic novels for years. Her 2010 memoir Smile recounts what it was like to be teased by other children face after losing two front teeth in sixth grade and wearing "embarrassing headgear," braces and "even a retainer with fake teeth attached."

In 2012, Telgemeier's Drama told a "colorful tale of teenage intrigue, but this time the mad crushes and mood swings take place among the stage crew of a middle-school theater production," said NPR's Glen Weldon, who called it "an unabashedly sunny, funny and warmhearted read."

Her latest graphic novel Ghosts is about two sisters, middle-schooler Catrina and little sister Maya, who has the incurable lung disease cystic fibrosis. Their family has just moved to a new town on the Northern California coast where their parents hope the cool sea air will help Maya breathe.

The town turns out to be full of ghosts - and Maya wants nothing more than to befriend them, though her older sister can't accept that Maya may soon join them. The story carries themes of acceptance, packed with imagery of the town, its ghosts and its Day of the Dead celebrations.

Telgemeier talked with NPR's Barrie Hardymon about broaching difficult topics with children, why she likes skeletons, and the similarities between characters and real people in her life.
Interview highlights contain Web-only extras.
Interview Highlights
On her depictions of ghosts and skeletons in the book
I like skeletons. I've always had a fondness for skeletons. It probably goes back to the old Disney cartoon The Skeleton Dance, the old Silly Symphonies from the 1930s. Where they're dancing and there's like a cute song that plays. And there's nothing scary about that. ...

I think most kids - most people probably - have some sort of fear of death. Including myself. And the idea of making it not scary but something jovial has always appealed to me. And so in depicting the ghosts in this book, and the skeletons in this book, I wanted them to be friendly. I wanted them to feel like they were friends. And it really spoke to me. And I've been in a position in the past few years where I've dealt with a lot of loss and a lot of people exiting my life in various ways. And so it was kind of also just an opportunity for me to kind of make peace with that, I suppose.
On the characters' similarities to real life
I think Cat has more in common with me. She's got the anxiety, she's got the fear, and she would rather avoid this uncomfortable topic than face it head on. But Maya, who of course who is dealing with this in her own being, she wants to understand. She wants to know. She wants to get closer to it so that she doesn't have to be afraid.

And then she ends up kind of dragging Cat along for that ride. And you know, Maya's just this un-put-downable spirit. She's just - she's exuberant and she's lively and she's got all the life in her. And I love her character so much.

She's not based on one specific person but she's based on a lot of kids that I've met. Who just, no matter what, you can't get them down. And I had a cousin who passed away when she was 13 of cancer a few years ago, and she was the same kind of kid. She was the one who was cheering everybody else up and telling everybody not to cry. And after she was gone, to be able to remember her that way, and to remember her fondly - it was so incredible. I mean, this story is not their story, this story is not her story. But I think the character of Maya certainly takes a few cues from this person.
On presenting loss to young readers
It's something we all experience. We all have to go through loss. And some kids have to deal with loss a lot sooner than others do. And I know a lot of kids who have a lot of anxiety and have a lot of questions that there's no way anybody could possibly answer.

But I think because writing fiction lets you move into sort of a speculative place, it means that you can start to create stories around the idea of loss. And stories are such a powerful way of communicating ideas and in comforting people. So even young readers, I would like to believe that it's a means of opening up conversations. It's a means of telling stories yourself and remembering people that you may have lost in your life. And that's a really powerful thing and a way that people can connect to one another while they're still here. And I think that's a lot of the message that I was trying to get across with the book itself.

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'Ghosts' Takes On A Tough Topic For Children

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Raina Telgemeier's new graphic novel Ghosts is about death. But it's written for children. Telgemeier tells NPR's books editor Barrie Hardymon that stories serve as a way to begin difficult conversations. "Stories are such a powerful way of communicating ideas and in comforting people," she says.