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Peru
Multicultural Festival -- Peru
The Multicultural Festival is a three day celebration, which kicks off the month of April in which the students will be educated about different countries, by showing cultural differences, and how we are the same. Peru is one of the four countries featured in this year's festival.
Games and Activities of Peru
Sapo-like ring toss
Soccer
Volleyball
Water sports: surfing, wind surfing
Bullfights
Horse racing
Manners and Customs in Peru
1. What time would your Peruvian host tell you to come for dinner? Should you arrive at that specific time, earlier or later? Dinner invitations are usually at 9:00. It's is correct to arrive on time to show respect for the person who spent time planning and preparing the meal.
2. Should you "clean your plate"? It is polite for a guest to eat everything on his plate or politely excuse himself.
3. If you give flowers for a present, what color should you avoid? Yellow flowers represent the enemy and giving them means you hate them (or you wish the person dead.)
Focus points for classroom discussions and activities:
- The legacy of the Inca Empire. It was an advanced civilization that when the Spanish arrived, there were 14 million quechuas organized under the rule of the Inca.
- Machu Pichu in Cuzco has been selected last year as one of the 7 wonders of the world.
- Peru is the place where the Amazon River originates.
Multicultural Festival Peru highlights
Cincinnati Zoo presentation on birds of Peru and baby Alpacas on display, courtesy of Heatherbrook Farm.
Upper School activities:
Sue Kelly, a Spanish teacher is going to show a power point presentation about her trip to Peru and Machu Picchu to Spanish Communication class sometime in April.
Kelly Cronin’s Honors Modern World course begins their Regions of the World 1945 to the Present Group Projects on April 17th. Each group has to research and learn their assigned area of the world and then teach the rest of the class the last 2 weeks of school. Areas covered include Egypt, Turkey, Peru, Korea.
Laura Haas’ Health classes are studying depression and focusing on depression as an increasing global health issue around the world, and the complications of treatment in countries that can’t even afford the basics, not to mention the influence of war and violence, poverty, the global economy on depression.
Language lessons
Hello: Hola
Good bye: Adios
Please: Por favor
Thank you: Gracias
You're welcome: De nada
Lower School library resources
Click here for a list of Library resources about these countries that are being made available to Lower School students during Multicultural Week.