Middle School Halloween Webquest
Your Task- To learn about the:
- · history of Halloween and the Spanish “Day of the Dead” celebration
- · the origin of the Jack-O-Latern
- · the first Trick-or-Treaters
- · first witch gatherings and black cat superstitions
What to do:
Answer the following questions, using the indicated web links. Write your answers down on your Answer Sheet.
Question #1
Where were the Celts from?
www.holidays.net/halloween/story.htm
Question #2
When did the Celts celebrate their new year?
www.holidays.net/halloween/story.htm
Question #3
What did the Celts’ New Year celebration represent?
www.holidays.net/halloween/story.htm
Question #4
Who are the Druids?
www.holidays.net/halloween/story.htm
Question #5
Druids gave ember from the fire to families. What were these fires suppose to do?
www.holidays.net/halloween/story.htm
Question #6
What was the November 1st festival called? How long did it last?
www.holidays.net/halloween/story.htm
Question #7
What did the Romans name Pomona day for?
www.holidays.net/halloween/story.htm
Question #8
In 835 A.D., who did the Roman Catholics honor on November 1st?
www.holidays.net/halloween/story.htm
Question #9
What are the other names for All Saints Day?
www.holidays.net/halloween/story.htm
Question #10
What did All Souls Day honor?
www.holidays.net/halloween/story.htm
Question #11
How was All Souls Day celebrated?
www.holidays.net/halloween/story.htm
Question #12
What three holidays mixed to become Halloween?
www.holidays.net/halloween/story.htm
Question #13
What were the lanterns, that the Celts would carry, made of?
www.holidays.net/halloween/pumpkins.htm
Question #14
What were the lights of the lanterns believed to do?
www.holidays.net/halloween/pumpkins.htm
Question #15
Who was Jack?
www.holidays.net/halloween/pumpkins.htm
Question #16
Jack still roams looking for what?
www.holidays.net/halloween/pumpkins.htm
Question #17
What eventually replaced the turnip?
www.holidays.net/halloween/pumpkins.htm
Question #18
What is the most widely recognized symbol of Halloween?
www.holidays.net/halloween/pumpkins.htm
Question #19
On All Souls Day in Britain, the poor would go begging to receive special treats called what?
www.holidays.net/halloween/trick.htm
Question #20
Why did early American housewives give children candy?
www.holidays.net/halloween/trick.htm
Question #21
When and how often to witches gather?
www.holidays.net/halloween/witches.htm
Question #22
When the witches would gather, they celebrated at a party hosted by whom?
www.holidays.net/halloween/witches.htm
Question #23
What would you have to do in order to meet a witch?
www.holidays.net/halloween/witches.htm
Question #24
What are some superstitions about black cats?
www.holidays.net/halloween/witches.htm
Question #25
What should you do if a black cat crosses your path?
www.holidays.net/halloween/witches.htm
Question #26
Why do Monarch Butterflies return to Mexico for winter?
www.holidays.net/halloween/muertos.htm
Question #27
What do the returning butterflies represent?
www.holidays.net/halloween/muertos.htm
Question #28
When is the “Day of the Dead” celebrated?
www.holidays.net/halloween/muertos.htm
Question #29
What is carried thorough the streets in celebration of the “Day of the Dead”?
www.holidays.net/halloween/muertos.htm
Question #30
What do families arrange on their alters?
www.holidays.net/halloween/muertos.htm
Question #31
Why do they go to the cemetery?
www.holidays.net/halloween/muertos.htm
Question #32
Do families spent the entire night at the cemetery?
www.holidays.net/halloween/muertos.htm
Question #33
What is “pan de muertos”?
www.holidays.net/halloween/muertos.htm
Question #34
What are “calacas”?
www.holidays.net/halloween/muertos.htm
Question #35
What did the Aztecs believe about the afterlife?
www.holidays.net/halloween/muertos.htm
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