Reading activity with some reflection about masks and the nature of carnival. Poetry and reports extracts. Elementary up www.essencialensino.com.br

1. Project:
Carnival
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Teacher Daniele Krauz

2. Content
Objectives:
 Observing cultural differences .
 Critical reading comprehension.
We will be using text collected from different websites.
The analysis will be developed covering material for the elementary and the
intermediate levels.
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Subject: History and culture about carnival around the world.
Interdisciplinarity: EFL – culture – history
Multiple intelligences: interpersonal – intrapersonal – visual – linguistic
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Grammar points Question words
Vocabulary open

4. We Wear the Mask
BY PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR
We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries
To thee from tortured souls arise.
We sing, but oh the clay is vile
Beneath our feet, and long the mile;
But let the world dream otherwise,
We wear the mask!
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Why should the world be over-wise,
In counting all our tears and sighs?
Nay, let them only see us, while
We wear the mask.
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We wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—
This debt we pay to human guile;
With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,
And mouth with myriad subtleties.

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6. HISTORY
Believers, followers.
Not eat.
Extend.
Permit.
Party goers.
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http://www.epicurious.com/articlesguides/holidays/
mardigras/international-carnival#ixzz2uLkfF0gl
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and Carnival stretch³ the
"indulge4 while you can"
message to embrace preChristian festivals like
Saturnalia and Bacchanalia,
while in other countries,
Carnival has become a largely
secular party. Come February
or March (dates vary by
country and celebration, and
are often timed to liturgical
calendars), many hungry
revelers5 in the U.S. celebrate
New Orleans–style. (1)
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Also known as Carnival,
Carnaval, Carnevale, Fat
Tuesday, Shrove Tuesday,
Pancake Day, Fastnacht,
Fastelavn, and Maslenitsa,
Mardi Gras is celebrated
many different ways around
the globe, but eating well is a
common theme. In the
Roman Catholic and Eastern
Orthodox traditions, Mardi
Gras is considered the last
call for the faithful¹ to eat
meat and other rich foods
before Lent (a six-week
period of penitence and
fasting² before Easter)
arrives. Some international
celebrations of Mardi Gras
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To be supposed to – should
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Rio de Janeiro is the mother of
all carnaval celebrations around
the world. More than twelve escola
de sambas, or samba schools,
compete in categories of costumes,
dance, and percussion. Escola de
sambas include the floats,
costumes, dancers, and musicians.
They are also known as samba
schools because the first escola de
samba practiced in a grade school.
The parades in Rio are known
asbandas, with more than 10,000
participants per parade, the
bandas go around most of Rio de
Janeiro's neighborhoods.(2)
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In Brazil, the celebration is
supposed to go on from the
Saturday before Mardi Gras until
Mardi Gras Day, but in some
Brazilian cities the celebration can
last seven or eight days. Just like
New Orleans, not many important
things are decided in Brazil from
New Year's Day to Mardi Gras Day
because they are preparing for
or celebrating Carnaval (Portugue
se for Carnival). Most Brazilian
parades have a theme,
or enredo, which could be political,
historical, or a tribute to someone.
The parades had to have a theme
that related to Brazil until
1996. Some cities in Brazil do
not have a street Carnaval but they
might have an indoor ball.

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Call together.
Member of a class of low
social status.
Wooden or shoes.
Throw at.
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yellow costumes that are
stuffed with hay and adorned
with white collars and bells.
In the mid-afternoon, nearly
1,000 Gilles converge on the
town's Grand Place, trade
their masks for large ostrichfeather headdresses, sing,
dance, and pelt4 the crowd
with blood oranges, a symbol
of fertility.
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Before dawn on the day of
Mardi Gras, a drumbeat
summons1 the residents of
Binche, a Belgian town of
32,000 near the French
border, into the streets. They
come to chase away winter
and participate in a folk
tradition, dating back to the
14th century, that UNESCO
has designated a cultural
treasure.
During the carnival, you'll see
Pierrot, Harlequin, and
peasant2 costumes, but the
central characters are the
Gilles—local men wearing
wax masks, wooden clogs3,
and elaborate black, red, and

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Carnival event is a
ceremonial parade that lasts
for twenty hours and parades
four kilometers. Over 20,000
dancers are involved as well
as 10,000 musicians. This
parade attracts at least
400,000 people.
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Call together.
2. Member of a class of low
social status.
3. Wooden or shoes.
4. Throw at.
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Bolivia has Carnival parades
for children and then more
parades for adults. The
children dress up in costumes
and march in the streets. The
adults make traditional dance
groups and dance in the
streets. But the main part of
Bolivia's carnival is getting
wet. Most everyone gets wet
from water balloons and
water buckets. In Oruru,
Bolivia, their Carnival is the
last ten days of the Carnival
season. People there
participate in crafts and
dancing, but their main

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2.
http://www.epicurious.com/articlesguides/holida
ys/mardigras/international-carnival
http://library.thinkquest.org/TQ0312226/around
world.htm
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