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Holiday Traditions Around the World ELA Winter Holidays and Traditions Lesson

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Description

Engage students through a fun and accessible lecture while exploring the diversity of winter holiday traditions celebrated around the world.

Students will compare and contrast holiday traditions around the world while thinking about their own family traditions. Lesson includes Christmas traditions of the USA, Chile, the Netherlands, Japan, and Nigeria and winter holidays such as Hanukah, Kwanzaa, Diwali, Lunar New Year, and Winter Solstice.


This Lesson Includes:

  • 74 Slide PPT
  • USA, Chile, the Netherlands, Japan, and Nigeria
  • Hanukah, Kwanzaa, Diwali, Lunar New Year, Winter Solstice
  • Media Links and Warm Up Question

What You'll Love:

  • American winter holidays: Hanukah, Kwanzaa, and Christmas
  • Diwali, Lunar New Year, and Winter Solstice
  • Easy, educational, and fun no-prep holiday lesson
  • Students will love learning about both American and international winter holidays and tradition

Skills You'll Find in This Lesson:

  • Short answer questions
  • Writing
  • Listening


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74 pages
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Teaching Duration
1 hour
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Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.
Introduce a topic; organize complex ideas, concepts, and information to make important connections and distinctions; include formatting (e.g., headings), graphics (e.g., figures, tables), and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension.
Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, description, reflection, and multiple plot lines, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters.
Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.

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