Emma Donharl
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla y Gallaga Mandarte Villaseñor
Miguel Gregorio Antonio Ignacio Hidalgo y Costilla y Gallaga Mandarte Villaseñor fueron sacerdote en México. La Corona España pasando agarrado por encima México. Hidalgo era muy bueno, pero abiertita la casa a artistas. Habían sensaciones descontentó al principio inmueble. Hidalgo y su amigo Allende reunía un grupo. El quince de Septiembre de mil ochocientos diez, Hidalgo dio el grito. La gente vino y empezó a marchar. En Aculco ellos fueron derrotado. El veintiuno de Marzo, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla y Gallaga Mandarte Villaseñor fue capturados por España y mataron el triente de Julio. Hidalgo empezó a revolución por independencia en México. El fue el sacerdote que engendró su país.
Word Bank
1. Dio- Gave
2. Declaración- Declaration
3. Sacerdote- Priest
4. Renuir- Gather (people)
5. Representar- Represent
6. Excomulgar- Excommunicate
7. Pegarle- Shoot
8. Aceptar- Accept
9. Artista- Artist
10. Empatía- Empathy
11. Libertad- Liberty
12. engendraba- to father
13. agarrado – To grip
Works Cited
“Miguel Hidalgo.” New Advent. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 May 2011. <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16045a.htm>.
Minster, Christopher. “Biography of Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla.” About.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 May 2011. <http://latinamericanhistory.about.com/od/latinamericaindependence/p/09mhidalgo.htm>.
Tuck, Jim. “Miguel Hidalgo: the Father who fathered a country.” Mexconnect. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 May 2011. http://www.mexconnect.com/articles/291-miguel-hidalgo-the-father-who-fathered-a-country-1753–1811.
Christmas time! You know when it comes around when the stores start putting up decorations for it and stocking the candy (right after Halloween). The United States marks this holiday by excessive consumerism. Thankfully, other countries, like Spain, don’t go all out until December. The holiday season isn’t marked by one day; it is two weeks of feasting and partying. From December 8th to January 6th, is La Navidad.
The 8th of December is Immaculada, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, starts this lovely holiday season. Spain’s religion is mostly Catholic, so this day is a national holiday. Christmas lights are up within the first week; the next celebration is the winter solstice. It’s called Hoguras, the jumping of the bonfires. This is supposed to encourage good health, and this tradition has been going on for thousands of years. The next celebration is the day after. On this day, people enter a lottery and stay glued to the TV. This is a country wide festivity.
On Christmas Eve, called Nochebuena, there is a massive feast with friends and family. The meal starts later in the evening with a prawn or fish first meal. Its followed with a suckling pig or a roast lamb. Dessert and alcohol follows. The typical drink is cava, the Spanish champagne. The meal is usually interrupted at midnight by the tolling of the bells. This midnight mass is called “La Misa de Gallo” or the Mass of the Rooster. On Christmas day, children might get one present; this day is to mainly focus on family and eating. The Santos Inocentes, or Innocent Saints Day, falls on the28th. This day is the Spanish equivalent of April Fool’s Day. To conclude the December festivities, we end on Nochevieja. This is a giant celebration with a lot of drinking and dancing. At midnight, people eat 12 grapes on each toll of the bells for good luck. After, people grab their bottles of cava, and head out into the night, often not stopping until sunrise.
The first of January is a very low-key holiday. People are sleeping off their night last night. Next is the fifth, where parades all over the country happen. It is different in every region. The holiday the children look the most forward to is the Three Saints Day, the 6th of November. It is also called The Feast of Epiphany; children wait the night before, and Los Reyes Magos leave presents all over the house. You can see Los Reyes Magos go into hospitals and give presents to children. Christmas is celebrated all over the world. Many different people have different traditions for this spectacular holiday. Even if you don’t celebrate Christmas, this end of the year holiday instills us with a feeling that you just don’t get any other holiday. The snow is blowing, there is a fire, your family is gathered around a feast, and you just feel happy. It doesn’t matter where you are from, what you look like, what you have done. It’s just pure raw happiness, and people everywhere know that feeling.
