EF67 Class 32- Easter, sentence types

 

Good morning, everyone.

We will get started at 9:15.

 

Today’s agenda

·      Easter lecture

·      Using quotation marks

·      sentence review exercises- simple, compound, complex

·      Comments- end of term teacher comments on report cards

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Friday

·      Good Friday

·      NO SCHOOL

 

Monday

·      Easter Monday

·      NO SCHOOL

 

Tuesday

·      First Nations

·      Business letters

·      quoting “  “ citing text, borrowing words from a story

 

Final two weeks

-Essays

-Spoken presentation

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 Easter is a major Christian holiday

Christian- Jesus Christ as the son of God

Catholic / Protestant

 

Easter celebration marks the end of Holy Week- Christians commemorates crucifixion, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ

crux- cross

Jesus was crucified by the Romans.

resurrect- come back to life

 

 

Easter does not appear in Bible- developed later

 

belief in one god – monotheism

mono- one

theo- god

polytheism – believe in many gods

poly-many

IDIOM Knock on wood. Celtic (ancient Irish) polytheism

 

supersition- behaviour can bring good luck or bad luck

 

 

Easter Sunday can fall anywhere between March 22 and April 25- Sunday immediately following the Paschal Full Moon

- lunar calendar

lunar- moon

Some cultures follow a lunar calendar.

In Canada, we do not follow the lunar calendar, but for Easter we do.

 

lunar festivals- Chinese New Year

-         Ramadan (Muslim fasting month)

 

moon- feminine

 

governed by the phases of the moon

 

Good Friday- day that Jesus Christ was crucified

Easter Sunday – the day Jesus Christ was resurrected

 

In ancient times- before Christianity (about 2000 years)

Easter is a pagan festival.

pagan - polytheistic

 

celebrate the Spring equinox

religious culture celebrates the resurrection of Christ

pagan culture celebrate the coming of Spring

 

2023 AD –  anno domini, in the year of the Lord

500 BC – before Christ

2022 CE- common era, same as AD

 

500AD 500BC

 

Easter is an ancient festival

celebration of new life, new year, Spring

 

acceptance of ancient pagan practises, most of which we enjoy today at Easter

 

long cold winter

symbolic story of the rebirth of the sun, overcoming the powers of darkness- ancient

 

long dark winter, sun is back, longer days, rebirth

 

plenty of parallel, rival resurrected saviours

 

Many ancient cultures had  similar celebrations:

Sumerian goddess Ishtar, was hung naked on a stake, and was subsequently resurrected and ascended from the underworld.

 

oldest resurrection myths is Egyptian Horus. Born on 25 December

 

Cybele cult flourished on today's Vatican Hill. Cybele's lover Attis, was born of a virgin, died and was reborn annually.

 

This spring festival began as a day of blood on Black Friday, rising to a crescendo after three days, in rejoicing over the resurrection.

 

All the fun things about Easter are pagan.

Bunnies are a leftover from the pagan festival of Eostre, a great northern goddess whose symbol was a rabbit or hare.

 

Eostre-  ancient goddess    - similar word to Easter

estrogen- the hormone that makes girls women

 

new life- women

 

rabbits are a symbol of new life- rabbits represent fecundity

 

 

Exchange of eggs is an ancient custom, celebrated by many cultures.

eggs represent rebirth

 

 

Hot cross buns are very ancient too. In the Old Testament we see the Israelites baking sweet buns for an idol, and religious leaders trying to put a stop to it. The early church clergy also tried to put a stop to sacred cakes being baked at Easter. In the end, in the face of defiant cake-baking pagan women, they gave up and blessed the cake instead.

 

Why chocolate? I don’t know

 

easter- Ishtar, Eostre, Easter

 

estrogen- female sex hormone

testosterone – male sex hormone

 

the pagan roots of Easter is a celebration of femininity

monotheism – one god

polytheism – many gods

 

Filipino cultish violent easter celebrations “cruc” pics

 

Mel Gibson- gory, violent- Braveheart, Passion of the Christ

 

Whether you are a Christian or not, you can celebrate the coming of Spring with some chocolate bunnies this weekend. Also, you can paint eggs or have an egg hunt.