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5.2.26 - Part 2 · Children's Hour

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  Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Children's Story Out. As a reminder,
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  RADIOI is a reading service intended for people who are
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  blind or have other disabilities that make it difficult to
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  read printed material. Today we will be reading from children's books.
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  Your reader today is Patty and we're going to start
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  with a book called Cinco Demayo, which was published in
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  the year two thousand and three by Compass Point Books.
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  The author of this book is Alice K. Flanagan and
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  the illustrator is Patrick Patrick Gerard. So let's read Sinko Demayo,
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  waive the Mexican flag, dance and sing, join the para
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  raid to celebrate Mexico's freedom and the freedom of all Americans.
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  Cinco Demayo means the fifth of May. Cinco Demayo is
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  a Mexican holiday that falls on that day. It is
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  quickly becoming an American holiday too. Mexico is a country
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  just south of the United States. Each year, on May fifth,
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  Mexicans remember the men and women who fought in the
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  Battle of Puebla in Mexico in eighteen sixty two. They
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  honor the soldiers who kept the French from taking control
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  of their country. The holiday celebrates freedom and liberty in
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  the United States. Mexican Americans, also called Chicanos, celebrate the
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  holiday in a different way, go to parties, hold parades,
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  and put on plays that show pride in their Mexican heritage.
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  They proudly carry the Mexican flag and performed Mexican songs
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  and dances throughout the day. The first people of Mexico
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  thousands of years ago, many different groups of people lived
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  in the country now called Mexico. Three of the largest
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  groups were the Maya, the Aztecs, and the Tolpeika. They
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  lived in large cities that contained buildings called pyramids. Over time,
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  these groups came to be known as Indians. The Aztec
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  were the most famous of the Indian groups. They wandered
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  for hundreds of years before they settled down and built cities.
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  A legend says that the Aztec god told the people
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  where to build. He said they should look for an
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  eagle eating a snake on top of a cactus. Once
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  they found the eagle, they were to build a city.
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  When the Aztecs found an eagle on an island in
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  a lake, they built the city of tino Chiquin. It
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  means place of the noble cactus. For many years, Tino
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  Chicklin became a very important center for trade and religion.
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  At one time, it was one of the largest cities
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  in the ancient world. Today this place is called Mexico City.
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  Living under Spanish rule during the fifteen hundreds, soldiers from
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  Spain came to Mexico to look for riches. They took
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  control of the land and made the Indians slaves. The
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  Spaniards ruled for three hundred years. They treated the Indians badly.
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  Many Spaniards married Indian women. Their children were called mezizzos
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  because they were both Spanish and Indian. Today, most people
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  who live in Mexico are mesdizos. Over the time, Spanish
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  rulers in Mexico borrowed a lot of money from other countries.
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  One of the countries was France. The Mexican government could
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  not pay back the money it borrowed. Therefore, the French
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  government sent an army to take control of Mexico the
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  Battle of Puebla. On the morning of May fifth, eighteen
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  sixty two, the French army stopped near the small town
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  of Puebla. The army was on its way to Mexico City.
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  The people of Puebla did not not want the French
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  in their country. They attacked them and drove them back.
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  Within a few hours. The French army left, however, it
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  returned a year later. This time, the French took control
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  of Mexico City and set up a new leader. For
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  the next five years, the Mexican people tried to get
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  rid of the French. Mexican leader Benito Warrez led the
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  fight against them a holiday of freedom. In eighteen sixty seven,
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  the French left Mexico for good. Benito Warrez became president
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  of Mexico and made May fifth a national holiday. Now
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  every year on May fifth, people of Mexican descent remember
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  the brave men and women of Puebla. They fought the
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  first battle against the French and one their freedom. Mexicans
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  are proud of how brave their ancestors were in battle.
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  To honor them, today, leaders give speeches about bravery. People
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  hold street fairs and parades. There is music, dancing, and
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  every favorite Mexican food you can eat favorite Mexican foods.
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  Mexicans are known for their special meals. Their dishes are
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  a mix of foods from Mexico and the southwestern parts
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  of the United States. Some of the most popular foods
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  are tamales, enchiladas, tortillas, tacos, burritos, trejolies, and churros. Many
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  Mexican meals include tortillas and for holis. A tortilla is
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  a thin, flat bread made from wheat, flour or corn dough. Beans.
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  Enchiladas are rolled up tortillas filled with beans and chopped meat, chicken,
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  or cheese. The enchilada may have come from a Mayan
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  dish that rich people ate on special occasion. Enchiladas are
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  topped with sauce and cheese. Today, most of these sauces
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  are called salsas and are made from tomatoes and spices
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  such as garlic and chili peppers. Tacos are corn or
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  flour tortillas folded over a meat or cheese filling. Burritos
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  are large flour tortillas wrapped around a meat, cheese and
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  bean filling. Tomales are made of corn meal dough mixed
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  with chopped pork or chicken. They are put in wet
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  corn husks and are steamed for dessert. Many people eat churros,
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  which are long pieces of dough covered in sugar and cinnamon.
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  Favorite Mexican music Mexican music is a rich blend of
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  Indian and Spanish sounds. Before the Spaniards came to Mexico,
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  people played music with rattles, drums, read or clay flutes
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  and horns made from shells. When the Spaniards came, they
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  brought violins, guitars, harps, and brass horns. Mariachi is one
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  popular type of Mexican music. Mariachi music goes back hundreds
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  of years. At one time, it was known as the
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  music of country people. Today, mariachi bands helped celebrate special
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  moments in the lives of Mexican people. You can hear
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  this music at earth Days, weddings, funerals, special holidays, and
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  church festivals. Often people use the music to send messages
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  of love to one another. An illustration here shows three musicians,
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  all men with black hair, some have mustaches, and they're
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  dressed in colorful jackets and pants. One is playing a violin,
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  one is playing a guitar, and one is playing a
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  brass instrument, probably a trumpet. The Mexican hat dance The
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  Mexican hat dance is called harabe capatillo. It is the
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  main dance of Mexico. Dancers wear special costumes. When they
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  perform the dance, men wear an outfit called a charo.
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  This outfit includes a short jacket, tight pants, and boots.
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  The pants and jacket have pretty patterns sewn on them.
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  Women wear a scar called a riboso over their shoulders.
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  They also wear a colorful skirt. The dance begins when
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  a man tosses his hat or sombrero on the floor
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  in front of a woman. If she likes the man,
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  she will dance on the wide brim of the hat.
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  Sometimes the owner of the hat will take quick hopping
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  steps around his own hat, celebrating in the United States.
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  In the United States, Chicanos celebrate Cinco de Mayo in
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  a different in a way different from people of Mexico.
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  In Mexico, people celebrate freedom on this day. They honor
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  those who fought against an army twice their size and won.
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  In the United States, Chicanos celebrate their heritage. They do
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  things to show pride in their Mexican Cultureinco Demayo is
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  a popular holiday in the states of Texas and Arizona.
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  A great number of people of Mexican descent live there.
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  Many Chicano families begin their celebration of Cinco Demayo by
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  going to church. Then they prepare special meals. Usually people
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  dress in red, white, and green clothing, which are the
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  colors of the Mexican flag. They have parties with Mexican
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  songs and dances. At neighborhood stores, people can buy Mexican food, music, clothing, books,
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  and toys. At schools, children can go to special events
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  to honor their culture. Today, more and more schools throughout
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  the United States are adding Sinco Demayo to their holiday calendars.
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  They are making this holiday another way to celebrate the
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  freedom and liberty of everyone. You might see on Cinco
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  de Mayo the Mexican flag. Three large stripes make up
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  the Mexican flag. The green stripe stands for freedom for
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  Mexican rule, the white stands for freedom of religion, the
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  red stands for unity or teamwork, and the center of
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  the flag is an eagle with a snake in its mouth.
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  This picture is the Mexican coat of arms. It is
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  based on a legend that says the Aztecs built a
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  city on the spot where they saw an eagle eating
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  a snake on top of a cactus. Today this city
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  is called Mexico City. Sombreros. A sombrero is a tall
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  hat with a wide grim. The word sombrero comes from
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  the Spanish word sombre, which means shade. There are two
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  kinds of sombreros. One is made from straw, the other
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  is made from felt and has designs sewn on it. Usually,
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  tiny wooden balls or beads hang from the brim of
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  the hat. The first people to wear sombreros may have
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  been mazito workers in Mexico or Texas. They as they
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  worked they needed a hat to keep the hot sun
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  out of their face and eyes. Today, the sombrero is
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  usually made in the Mexican is usually mainly in the
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  Mexican hat dance. A serape is a cape worn over
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  the shoulders. In Mexico, usually only men wear a serape.
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  The serabe looks like a rug with a hole cut
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  in the middle for a head to fit through. During
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  Cinco Demayo's celebrations, men often wear a sera and a sombrero.
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  A mariachi band A mariachi band has three to twelve
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  people in it. The musicians play violins, trumpets, guitars, and
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  brass instruments. They sing favorite country songs called folk songs.
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  La cucaracha is a popular folk song. It means the
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  cockroach in Spanish. Mariachi musicians dress in colorful costumes. They
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  often wear sombreros. Some people think that mariachi bands got
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  their start when the French army ruled Mexico. Many French
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  soldiers married Mexican women and hired small bands to play
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  at their wedding. The bands were later called mariachi, which
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  sounds like the French word for wedding, maurigia. A pinnata
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  Children have fun breaking open a pinnata at parties. A
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  pinnata is made of cardboard and paper mache. Usually it
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  is shaped like an animal or a star. The pinnata
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  is filled with candy and toys and is hung from
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  the ceiling. Children cover their eyes with a piece of cloth,
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  then they take turns trying to hit the pinnata with
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  a stick. When it breaks open, everyone scrambles to get
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  the gifts that fall to the ground. What you can
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  do on Cinco Demayo. Over the years, Cinco Demayo has
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  become a holiday filled with song, dance, and tasty foods.
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  On this day, however, it is also important to honor
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  the men and women who gave their lives so that
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  others could be free. Cinkodamayo celebrates liberty and freedom, which
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  are important to everyone. Here are some things you can
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  do on the fifth of May. Celebrate your freedom by
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  helping others. Go out of your way to help someone
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  solve a problem, Show a family member or friend how
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  to settle differences without fighting. Make your own book about
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  Senko Demayo. Plan a Senko de Mayo party at your
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  home or school. And here at the end of the
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  book is a glossary, which is just a small dictionary
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  about the words. Some of the words that we've read
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  in the book. The first word is ancestors. That means
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  a person's grandparents, great grandparents, and so on. Celebrates This
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  means as a party or honors a special event. Culture
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  this means a group of people's beliefs, customs, and way
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  of life. Dissent the family a person comes from. Folk
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  songs songs handed down from one generation to the next.
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  Heritage This word is the beliefs and customs that are
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  important to a certain group of people and that are
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  handed down from one generation to the next. Husks the
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  dry coverings of certain fruits and seeds. National holiday. This
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  term means a holiday that is celebrated by the entire
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  country and that usually includes a day off from work
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  or school. Paper mache paper hulp with glue that makes
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  a light material used for shaping and molding them. And
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  our last word in the glossary is pyramids. This means
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  solid buildings with sloping sides that come together at the top.
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  Now I'm going to share another book with you. This
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  one is fiction. It's a story, and it's called Sinko
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  de mouse Oh. The story was written by Judy Cox
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  and illustrated by Jeffrey Ebler. It was published in twenty
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  ten by Holiday House. So let's read Sinko de Mouseo.
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  On the fifth of May, mouse woke up and wriggled
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  his whiskers, spicy smells, tickled his nose, beanie cheesy ricey
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  smells a Mexican fiesta fandistico. Here we have an illustration
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  of a little mouse in hishiny mouseful, and he's in
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  his little bed, and next to his bed or his
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  glasses and a drink of water and a little tiny book. Continuing,
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  mouse crawled out of his heidi hold. Where was the fiesta.
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  Not in the bathroom where the kids brushed their teeth,
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  not in the bedroom where mom folded laundry, not in
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  the kitchen where Dad washed dishes. Mouse slipped out the
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  front door and set off to explore. Mouse scampered down alleyways,
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  passed sidewalks and streetlights. He didn't see reedy cat stalk
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  him down the street. Before long, mouse stopped at the
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  edge of a city park. The illustration here shows the
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  little tiny mouse running through the park, and he has
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  a striped shirt on and pants, and he's wearing blue glasses.
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  But high above him, up on a railing, is a
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  yellow striped cat looking down on the tiny mouse continuing.
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  What sights met his eyes? All around were people eating, singing, dancing, strolling, playing.
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  All around were food and drink, sombreros, serapes, and bright
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  paper flowers sinco de mayo. His eyes grew round as
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  he beheld a confetti covered pinnata, stuffed with candy and
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  shaped like a burrow, hanging in a tree above the plaza.
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  I must have that for my fiesta, he said to himself.
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  He jumped, but the enticing pignata swung far out of reach.
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  But all around were people eating dropping snacks from mouse
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  sized meal, yummy foods he'd never tasted before, tacos, to miles, terrezos,
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  and fly. When mouse was full, he dozed under the
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  shade of a canopy. When mouse cat, though, crouched in
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  the flower bed, tail up and head down, waiting for
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  his chin. The illustration here shows the little mouse picking
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  up scraps of food that have fallen from the people's plates.
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  There's one boy that's eating a truro and another who's
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  eating a taco, and you can see little crumbs falling
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  to the ground and little mouse is picking them up.
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  But all around came dancers, stamping heels, stomping toes, tapping.
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  Mouse woke up and dashed away from cat, ducking between dancers,
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  pounding feet, zigging and zagging, jigging and jagging. Cat pounced
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  but missed his prey. As mouse darted beneath the stage,
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  Mouse heard the mariachi's play, heard the guitar, the trumpet,
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  the sweet voiced violins, heard the boom of fireworks and
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  people shouting Viva Mexico. When at last, Mouse's heartbeat steadied,
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  his whiskers quivered once again. He smelled the candy hidden
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  deep in the pinata, but how to reach the sweets
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  buried in that furrow piannyaka swaying high above the plaza,
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  leckety split mouse scrambled up the tree. He inched across
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  the rope like a tight rope walk, one paw in
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  front and one paw behind. He didn't see cat hiding
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  in the daffodils, his stripy tail twitching, his green eyes narrow.
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  The illustration here shows the little mouse walking across the
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  rope like a tightrope walk. Some birds are sitting high
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  on another wire watching him, and down below is the
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  cat hoping that the mouse will fall. The pignata swayed
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  as mouse climbed up. He smelled the trees fruity, sugary
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  and honey sweep. He nibbled, he gnawed, but he could
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  not reach the treasure inside. Just then the swish of
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  a stick as a child swung and someone jerked the
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  pinata aloft. Mouse held on tight as the pinnata swayed
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  and sailed, dipped and spun a carnival ride for mouse.
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  In the plaza. Down below, cat waited for mouse to
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  fall into his paws like a ripe plum. The illustration
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  here shows the colorful pignata shaped like a burrow or
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  a little donkey, and mouse is on top of it,
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  just as if he were riding the burrow, and down, down,
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  down it falls, and then what a mighty blow, and
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  the burrow pinnata burst. Mouse flew through the air like
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  a skyrocket and landed in the rose bushes, head spinning
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  and tummy churning. The illustration here shows the little mouse
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  tumbling through the dark night sky. All around him are
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  pictures of all the candy that was inside the burrow
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  shaped pignata that has now broken apart, and the candy
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  is flying through. Then they're suckers and wrapped hard candy,
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  all sorts of tasty trees. And down below we see
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  all the children's hands reaching to grab some of the
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  delicious candy that's flying through the air. Candy spilled across
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  the plaza, showering like hailstone. Children ran to and fro laughing, yelling,
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  and scooping up handfuls, pocket fulls, bagfuls. Someone stepped on
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  cats tail. The illustration shows about seven children down on
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  the ground picking up all the candy that has fallen
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  from the broken pinnata. And there's the cat down on
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  the ground with them, and a little boy has stepped
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  on its tail. Cat yowled and sped home, his tail
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  bruised and sword. When Mouse caught his breath, he sat up.
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  The candy was gone, the people were leaving, the cleaners
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  were sweeping and picking up trash. No dessert for me,
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  mouse thought, his whiskers drooping. But wait. Hidden in the ivy,
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  Mouse spied one lemon drop, overlooked, forgotten and wrapped in
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  shiny sellaping. He picked it up and ran home to
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  his heidihold for one last treat. Sinko to mouse, o, hey, Phelicidad,
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  and little mouse is very with his one piece of candy.
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  So this concludes the Children's Story Hour or today. Please
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  join us next time as we'll read more stories, fables
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  and fairy tales. And thank you for listening, and please
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