Skeletons! Skeletons are an important symbol in Mexican culture They represent an ______________________ and _____________________ afterlife for the deceased Reminds the living that there is life after death Skulls are decorated: _____________________________________________ _____________________________________________ _____________________________________________ _____________________________________________ Design a Day of the Dead sugar skull! 3 2 1 0 Colors Used a wide variety Used a small Used some dull Did not colors. of bright, variety of bright colors. (3-4). Only used two colors. (7-8) Colors colors. (5-6). Colors don’t go colors. (1-2) go well together. Colors mostly go well together. well together. Design Incorporated Incorporated Designs are more Did not paint any cultural designs as one type of related to designs on skull. seen on Mexican Mexican design. Halloween than skulls (flowers, Day of the Dead. patterns, gems) Craftsmanship Entire skull is Some spots of A lot of plaster is Put no effort at painted neatly (no plaster peak seen through the all into painting. plaster spots through. Some Very Skull is falling peeking through). sloppy paint streaky and lazy apart due to Skull is sturdy and in spots. paint job. Skull mishandling. one piece. may be falling apart. Creativity Skull design is Some parts of Most of skull Skull design is a original and not the design are design is copied. direct copy from copied from another copied, but not somewhere else. everything.
Skeletons! Skeletons are an important symbol in Mexican culture They represent an ______________________ and _____________________ afterlife for the deceased Reminds the living that there is life after death Skulls are decorated: _____________________________________________ _____________________________________________ _____________________________________________ _____________________________________________ Design a Day of the Dead sugar skull! 3 2 1 0 Colors Used a wide variety of bright, colors. (7-8) Colors go well together. Used a small variety of bright colors. (5-6). Colors mostly go well together. Used some dull colors. (3-4). Colors don’t go well together. Did not colors. Only used two colors. (1-2) Design Incorporated cultural designs as seen on Mexican skulls (flowers, patterns, gems) Incorporated one type of Mexican design. Designs are more related to Halloween than Day of the Dead. Did not paint any designs on skull. Craftsmanship Entire skull is painted neatly (no plaster spots peeking through). Skull is sturdy and in one piece. Some spots of plaster peak through. Some sloppy paint spots. A lot of plaster is seen through the Very streaky and lazy paint job. Skull may be falling apart. Put no effort at all into painting. Skull is falling apart due to mishandling. Creativity Skull design is original and not copied from another Some parts of the design are copied, but not everything. Most of skull design is copied. Skull design is a direct copy from somewhere else.
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