(PDF) Holidays Around the World: Celebrate Kwanzaa: With Candles, Community, and the Fruits of the Harvest Full

(PDF) Holidays Around the World: Celebrate Kwanzaa: With
Candles, Community, and the Fruits of the Harvest Full

(PDF) Holidays Around the World: Celebrate Kwanzaa: With Candles,
Community, and the Fruits of the Harvest Full
Description :
With succinct, lively text and beautiful photographs, this book celebrates
African American culture and helps us to understand and appreciate this
special holiday. Over the course of seven days, families and friends come
together to light the candles that symbolize past and future and African
American unity. We gather as a community to make music and to dance to
feast on harvest foods and the good things of the earth and to exchange
simple, often homemade gifts. Readers are introduced to the symbols of the
holiday, such as the mkeka (a special placemat), kinara (candleholder), and
kikombe cha umoja (unity cup). Important concepts, like the seven principles,
are explained.National Geographic supports K 12 educators with ELA
Common Core Resources.Visit www.natgeoed.org/commoncore for more
information.