Unit15 HolidayActivities
Dialogues /monologues:
1、It is a far different world today than it was last Memorial Day, and what a year ago would have been perceived perhaps as an inconvenience is now being embraced as extra security checks.
2、Where is the blessing in giving away something I would like to keep for myself?
3、We have each helped in a different aspect as schedules and talents allowed.
4、School children blitz the community asking for canned contributions.
5、The guided working weekends and the guided working holidays.
6、But Foot Trails specializes in offering gentle paced, soft guided walking so you will feel relaxed and refreshed, definitely not exhausted.
Passage:
The Story of Mother's day
The earliest Mother's Day celebrations can be traced back to the spring celebrations of ancient Greece in honor of Rhea, the Mother of the Gods. During the 1600' s, England celebrated a day called “ Mothering Sunday ”.Celebrated on the 4 th Sunday of lent, “ Mothering Sunday ” honored the mothers of England.
During this time many of the England 's poor worked as servants for the wealthy. As most jobs were located far from their homes, the servants would live at the houses of their employees. On Mothering Sunday the servants would have the day off and were encouraged to return home and spend the day with their mothers. A special cake, called the mothering cake, was often brought along to provide a festive touch.
As Christianity spread throughout Europe the celebration changed to honor the “ Mother Church ”— the spiritual power that gave them life and protected them from harm. Over time the church festival blended with the Mothering Sunday celebration. People began honoring their mothers as well as the church.
In the Unite States Mother's Day was first suggested in 1872 by Julia Ward Howe as a day dedicated to peace. Ms. Howe would hold organized Mother's Day meetings in Boston every year.
In 1907 Ana Jarvis, from Philadelphia , began a campaign to establish a national Mother's day. Ms. Jarvis persuaded her mother's church in Grafton, West Virginia to celebrate Mother's Day on the second anniversary of her mother's death, the second Sunday of May. By the next year Mother's Day was also celebrated in Philadelphia .
Ms. Jarvis and her supporters began to write to ministers, businessman, and politicians in their quest to establish a national Mother's Day. It was successful as by 1911 Mother's Day was celebrated in almost every state. President Woodrow Wilson, in 1914, made the official announcement proclaiming Mother's Day as a national holiday that was to be held each year on the second Sunday of May.
While many countries of the world celebrate their own Mother's Day at different times throughout the year, there are some countries such as Denmark , Finland , Italy , Turkey , Australia , and Belgium which also celebrate Mother's Day on the second Sunday of May. Translate Reference：
母親節最早可追溯到古希臘，人們為了表示對眾神之母瑞亞的敬重，每年春天都會舉行重大的慶�；顒�。在十七世紀，英國開始慶祝拜望雙親日。拜望雙親日定于復活節前四旬齋的第四個星期日，表達對英國母親們的敬意。
此時，英國有許多窮人都在有錢人家里當奴仆。因為許多工作都離自家非常遠，所以奴仆們都不得不寄宿在主人家里。在拜望雙親日這天，主人們會放他們假，并鼓勵他們返回家園與母親團聚。為了增加節日氣氛，他們總是帶一種特殊的蛋糕“母親蛋糕”回家。
隨著基督教在歐洲擴散，這個節日轉為對主母教堂的慶祝，表達人們對賦予他們生命、保佑他們免于傷害的精力力量的感謝。從此，教會儀式便與拜望雙親日的慶祝活動相結合，于是，人們除了表達對母親的敬意外，還表達對教會的尊重。
在美國，母親節最早是由朱莉亞. 瓦德.霍于 1872 年提出的，她建議將這一天獻給“和平”，并每年在波斯頓等地舉行母親節的集會。
1907 年，費城的安那. 賈維斯發起為了建立全國性的母親節的活動。她勸說位于弗吉尼亞洲西部的格拉夫頓教堂，也就是她媽媽經常去的教堂，在她母親逝世兩周年的日子，也就是五月的第二個星期日，慶祝母親節。第二年，費城也開始了慶祝母親節的活動。
賈維斯小姐和她的支持者們開始給教會牧師、商人、政界要員寫信，要求建立全國性的母親節。他們的努力非常成功， 1911 母親節那一天幾乎所有的州都在開展慶祝活動。 1914 年，美國總統伍德羅.威爾遜鄭重聲明，宣布母親節為全國性節日，并于每年 5 月第二個星期天舉行慶�；顒�。
許多國家在一年中不同的時節慶祝屬于他們自己的母親節。然而，有些國家如丹麥、土耳其、澳大利亞和比利時，都是在五月的第二個星期日慶祝母親節的。 |
