Christmas
▶ an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ
▶ The practice of putting up special decorations at Christmas has a long history. In the 15th century, it was recorded that in London it was the custom at Christmas for every house and all the parish churches to be "decked with holm, ivy, bays, and whatsoever the season of the year afforded to be green".
| heart-shaped leaves of ivy | the coming to earth of Jesus |
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holly |
protection against pagans and witches |
| thorns and red berries of holly | the Crown of Thorns worn by Jesus at the crucifixion and the blood he shed |
▶ The traditional colors of Christmas decorations are red, green, and gold.
| red | the blood of Jesus |
| green | eternal life |
| gold | royalty |
▶ Saint Nicholas
His reputation evolved among the faithful, as was common for early Christian saints, and his legendary habit of secret gift-giving gave rise to the traditional model of Santa Claus through Sinterklaas.
▶ Meaningful “12” DAYS
Epiphany -a Christian feast day that celebrates the revelation of God in his Son as human in Jesus Christ
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Twelfth Night - a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written around 1601–02 as a Twelfth Night's entertainment for the close of the Christmas season
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Songs shared in class
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▶It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year◀ ● “There'll be parties for hosting Marshmallows for toasting” ● “It's the hap-happiest season of all With those holiday greetings and gay happy meetings When friends come to call It's the hap-happiest season of all” gay: happy ● “It's the most wonderful time of the year There'll be much mistltoeing”
⇨ Some historians believe the connection between mistletoe and a kiss comes from ancient Norse mythology. According to happier versions of the legend, Baldur (sometimes spelled Baldr or Balder) was killed by an enemy's arrow made of mistletoe. His mother, the goddess Frigg, wept tears onto the arrow. Her tears turned into white berries that she placed onto Baldur's wound, bringing him back to life. Overjoyed, Frigg blessed the mistletoe plant and promised a kiss to all who passed beneath it. While You Were Sleeping(film)
On Christmas Day, Lucy rescues Peter from the oncoming Chicago 'L' train after a group of muggers push him onto the tracks. |
The Wizard Of Oz
▶ an American children's novel written by author L. Frank Baumand illustrated by W. W. Denslow
▶ The story chronicles the adventures of a young farm girl named Dorothy in the magical Land of Oz, after she and her pet dog Toto are swept away from their Kansas home by a cyclone.
▶ Silver Shoes in the book
▶ Ruby Slippers in the movie
▶ “little child”as the protagonist
the same as the girl in the logo of MENTHOLATUM
The Mentholatum Company, Inc., founded in 1889 by Albert Alexander Hyde, is an American maker of non-prescription health care products. It was bought out by Rohto Pharmaceutical Co., a Japanese health care company, in 1988.
▶ There's no place like home.
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