Winter Celebrations

 Finding Information-How many answers can you find? See what you can do and blog your answers below. If you are done early, and good luck, then go back and read in more depth. 

Iroquois Winter Celebration

Big Heads and Stirring Ashes
1.What is the stirring of the Ashes?

Saturnalia
2. How can the wearing of ugly Christmas sweaters be traced to the ancient Romans?

Winter Celebrations around the World

3.While eating food cooked in oil, what game might you play during Hanukah?

4.What festival is called first fruits?

The History of Christmas in Canada
5.Who is Santa Claus based from?
6.How did Christmas trees become a thing for English speaking countries?
7.What type of pie is  traditionally eaten in Quebec on Christmas Eve?

The History of Christmas
8.Who popularized gift giving on Christmas?
9.What day used to be gift giving?


Diwali-Festival of Lights
10.This popular festival is held during the Autumn in India. What is the key ingredient to this Festival to mark the victory of good over evil?


Using your knowledge
11.Why would many cultures from the Northern Hemisphere have winter festivals that feature light, greenery, and food?

12. Christmas hasn't always been popular among Christians. It is now a very popular celebration, but what remains as the big religious day for Christians?

13.Santa Clause has been accused of being a shill popularized by Coca-Cola and other retail cooperation. What is a shill?

14. If you owned a department store, would you go to the expense of popularizing Santa Clause, maybe even having a Santa Clause? Explain.

15. A hundred years from now, Christmas, or our major winter celebration will . . .  (give details)

16. Some in our class celebrate Christmas on the 25 of December, for some Christmas officially arrives at a different date.  How did we get multiple offical Christmase dates?

Halloween

Halloween is coming up. Here are some facts about Halloween in Canada , here is some of the history of Halloween in Canada and below you will find some video clips about Halloween.  Blog your answers where it says comments below

1.Comment an interesting fact that you found
2.Comment another interesting fact
3.Comment something about how halloween was celebrated in the past.
4. Trick or Treating was something that became widespread in Canada starting in the 1950s, which isn't that long ago. Even in that short time it has changed. Winnipeg children used to holler 'halloween apple' to ask for candy. How do you think Halloween will be celebrated 50 years from now in Canada? Give a reason for your prediction in the comments below.