This is exciting! We recently talked about la Llorona in my Spanish 2 class and here it is on “Grimm” on NBC.
Check it out and let us know if you think you’ll use it for teaching. Maybe a homework to watch it on NBC.com?? I’ll write about more Día de los muertos activities tomorrow.
Happy Halloween!
It seems like a great idea. What are you doing for the Day of the Dead? I cannot wait to learn from your ideas. Thanks again for sharing!
Got it all up on the post “Muerto Plans”. What are you planning?
I grew up hearing about La Llorona, but never anything as creepy as they depict on Grimm. What we were told was that she drowned her children because she wanted all the attention from her husband herself. Once she drowned them, she regretted it and was always in search of her children….you could hear her cry out “mis hiijoooos!”. I don’t recall halloween being a day of her appearance either…maybe our parents just tried to scare us into not being out at night every night as opposed to one night a year…jaja.
Interesting!! I don’t think there is a connection to Halloween, but it fits so well at this time. I love a good ghost story. 🙂 My Mexican students all have a personal story about la Llorona.
Love this! Showed it to my level 3 kids and while they were really into the culture and story of “la llorona” they also like seeing what a translator does… Might have inspired some new career aspirations!
Hey Megan, I’m not very creative but would love to use it in my class as well to show my students what a translator does and also introduce the story. did you have the answer questions or write anything?
Have you played the animated movie, La leyenda de la llorona, in class?