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Mardi Gras
Learn more about
the celebration of Mardi Gras by answering the questions on this Web
Hunt. Write your answers on the sheet you have been given.
[Web Hunt Answer
Sheet- PDF]
1.
Read about the
Celebration of Mardi Gras and answer these questions:
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How
many days before Easter is Fat Tuesday?
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When is
the formal start of Mardi Gras?
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What
are the three colors of Mardi Gras and what does each color stand
for?
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What do
Mardi Gras masks represent?
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When
was the first Mardi Gras parade held in New Orleans?
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What
two cultures celebrate Mardi Gras with pancakes?
2.
Write the definitions for these words from the
How Stuff
Works Web site.
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Boeuf
Gras
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Lundi
Gras
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throws
3.
What are
three names for the day before Ash Wednesday?
4.
What are three things a
krewe
might do to celebrate Mardi Gras?
5.
Describe a traditional
King Cake.
6.
"Throw me
something, Mister!" are words often heard at Mardi Gras parades.
List five things that might be thrown from Mardi Gras floats.
7.
Why were there
no Mardi
Gras parades from 1861-1864, from 1919-1920, and from 1942-1945?
When you have finished answering all the questions on the Mardi Gras
Web Hunt, choose from the following activities:
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Send
someone an online greeting for Mardi Gras. You have to know
their correct email address. You can use my email address for
your email address.
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Look at
the beads one Mardi
Gras fanatic has collected over the years. Watch out - this
site has music. Turn your speakers down. Here's another site
with music and pictures
of things thrown from floats.
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Select
a Mardi Gras
coloring page to print out and take home with you to color.
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Look at
pictures of award-winning Mardi Gras
costumes.
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Look at
360 degree
panorama pictures of Mardi Gras events. I like the Krewe
of Elvis!
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