Renné Peña Moreno

Orientación.  
Vanessa Rodríguez
Johanna Urrea Suárez
 
EQUIPO EDITOR
Jazmín Ramírez Alzate  
Docente Humanidades

Julián Soler Higuera      
Docente Humanidades

Sandra Soto                    
Docente Humanidades

Mónica Sánchez              
Docente Humanidades

REDACCIÓN
Jazmín Ramírez Alzate   
Docente Humanidades

Julián Soler Higuera       
Docente Humanidades

Sandra Soto Barbosa      
Docente Humanidades

Mónica Sánchez              
Docente Humanidades

Luis Roldán

Docente Ética y Religión

PRODUCCIÓN, DISEÑO Y DIAGRAMACIÓN
Julián Soler Higuera
 
FOTOGRAFÍA
Julián Soler Higuera
Jazmín Ramírez Alzate
Sandra Soto Barbosa 
Mónica Sánchez

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 Año 7. N° 5. Octubre de 2024.

During the activity, students who were part of the public, could listen to their partners representing them and they also, could practice the words while they waited for the participant to give the right answer.

We had two categories: sailors (6^th to 8^th grade) and surfers (9^th to 11^th grade).

The winners were:

Now, these three intelligent and talented students, will represent us in the “locality spelling bee contest”. They will compete with students from other schools in the locality, and the winner will go to the District Spelling Bee contest. Good luck for them!

Finally, as a new category in the contest, this year students from 10^th grade, made some videos teaching others how to take care of the water. Wait to watch them in the English Day!

Thanks!

On the day corresponding to November 1^st on contemporary calendars, the new year was believed to begin. That date was considered the beginning of the winter period, the date on which the herds were returned from pasture and land tenures were renewed.

During the Samhain festival the souls of those who had died were believed to return to visit their homes, and those who had died during the year were believed to journey to the otherworld. People set bonfires on hilltops for relighting their hearth fires for the winter and to frighten away evil spirits, and they sometimes wore masks and other disguises to avoid being recognized by the ghosts thought to be present.

It was in those ways that beings such as witches, hobgoblins, fairies, and demons came to be associated with the day. The period was also thought to be favorable for divination on matters such as marriage, health, and death. When the Romans conquered the Celts in the 1^st century, they added their own festivals of Feralia, commemorating the passing of the dead, and of Pomona, the goddess of the harvest.

In the 7^th century, Pope Boniface IV established All Saints’ Day, originally on May 13^th, and in the following century, perhaps in an effort to supplant the pagan holiday with a Christian observance, it was moved to November 1. The evening before All Saints’ Day became a holy, or hallowed, eve, from which the word "Halloween" evolved. By the end of the Middle Ages, the secular and the sacred days had merged. 

Along with skeletons and black cats, the holiday has incorporated scary beings such as ghosts, witches, and vampires into the celebration. Another symbol is the jack-o’-lantern, a hollowed-out pumpkin, originally a turnip, carved into a demonic face and lit with a candle inside.