1. Semana Santa Webquest Nombre_____________
Answer the following 3 questions in English based on your own knowledge.
1. What is the origin of the holiday known as Easter?
It’s solely based on Jesus rising on the third day.
2. How do some people here in the U.S celebrate Easter? (secular and religious)
Most people go to church and have a easter egg hunt with their family.
3. What do you know about how it is celebrated in Spain? I don’t know anything about
how it’s celebrated in Spain.
Now answer these specific questions by reading at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semana_Santa_en_Sevilla
Type your answers in a different color.
4. What does Semana Santa mean? brotherhood
5. When is it? the week leading up to easter.
6. Where are the processions going and why? to the parade and then to go to the
church.
7. What are brotherhoods and what is their purpose? hermandades and corfadías, to
perform public acts of religious observance.
8. What happens during Semana Santa? they have 60 processions
9. Who are Nazarenos and how are they dressed? people dressed in distinctive pointed
hoods and holding long candles, marching in silence.
10. What is at the beginning of the processions? In the middle? a great cross, the
nazarenos, a group of altar boys, the paso, music groups, and a number of penitentes
carrying wooden crosses.
11. What is a Paso? The pasos are a set of images set on top of a float.
12. What are 3 possible pasos? How old are some of them? Allegorical scene, Christ,
Virgin Mary. Some of them were carved in the 16th century.
2. Semana Santa Webquest Nombre_____________
13. Who are costaleros and what do they do? A team of men that support the beams of
the carvings up on their shoulders and necks. They transport the Pasos.
14. What is the traditional dress of women for this? La Mantilla (the mantle). for men? a
dark suit, black necktie, and shoes
15. How do people behave as the processions go past? they are silent and respectful
Look at the various photographs/slide shows at these 2 sites to see more:
http://semanasantaonline.com/
http://gospain.about.com/od/semanasantaeaster/ss/semana_santa_3.htm
16. What is your impression and why? (3-4 thoughtful sentences with insight)
The costaleros are dedicated to the holiday because
they carry the large floats. My impression from
looking at the pictures, is that the people respect
this holiday. It is a very important and serious holiday
Children and Easter
Read at this website, then answer the following
questions.
http://pbskids.org/zoom/activities/do/cascarones.html
17. What are cascarones? Confetti filled eggs
18. In which countries are they played with? Mexico and Spain
19. How are you to break them? Over the head, but not on the head.
20. Why do you break them? Because they shower you with good luck
¡Felices Pascuas!
