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Mayan beauty standards

Mayan beauty standards. A.C. Sandl e r. Standards. Discuss & Reflect. Turn to your neighbor and discuss: -What makes a person beautiful? -Do all cultures have the same standards for beauty? Why or why not? -Do religious beliefs play a role in what is considered beautiful?

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Mayan beauty standards

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  1. Mayan beauty standards A.C. Sandler

  2. Standards

  3. Discuss & Reflect Turn to your neighbor and discuss: -What makes a person beautiful? -Do all cultures have the same standards for beauty? Why or why not? -Do religious beliefs play a role in what is considered beautiful? Share out as a class.

  4. Mayan Beauty Secrets • The Mayan believed it was important to help a child develop lasting physical beauty traits. • So starting in infancy parents would begin beauty treatments for their children. • As adults, Mayans would continue the process, seeking out new ways to embellish their bodies.

  5. Beauty Secrets • Heavily based in religion • Ritualized deformity seen as beautiful. • Crossed eyes Sun god They suspended a pearl between the child’s eyes to force them into being permanently cross eyed.

  6. Beauty Secrets • Heavily based in religion • Ritualized deformity seen as beautiful. • Crossed eyes • Elongated skulls Formed by placing the infant skull between 2 boards so the skull will elongate.

  7. Beauty Secrets • Heavily based in religion • Ritualized deformity seen as beautiful. • Crossed eyes • Elongated skulls • Inlaid teeth Holes are drilled in the teeth and precious stones are then set in the holes. No anesthesia was used during the procedure.

  8. Beauty Secrets • Heavily based in religion • Ritualized deformity seen as beautiful. • Crossed eyes • Elongated skulls • Inlaid teeth • Filed teeth Teeth are filed into pleasing shapes.

  9. Beauty Secrets • Heavily based in religion • Ritualized deformity seen as beautiful. • Crossed eyes • Elongated skulls • Inlaid teeth • Filed teeth • piercings

  10. COMMON CORE READING STANDARDS FOR LITERACY IN HISTORY / SOCIAL STUDIES Key Ideas and Details 2. Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of the source distinct from prior knowledge or opinions. 10

  11. Standards

  12. Reflect & Discuss • Turn to a neighbor and discuss: the similarities and differences in Mayan and American beauty standards. • Share out: • How are they the same? • How are they different?

  13. Prewriting • Compare the similarities and differences in Mayan and American beauty standards. • Fill out the Venn diagram on the following slide. • 3 similarities • 4 differences

  14. Beauty Standards Ancient Maya Modern America

  15. Writing • Write 5-10 sentences comparing Mayan beauty practices with that of modern American people. • Use at least 3 examples to support each point.

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