WRITING: A Famous Celebration
LEVEL: 300 - 330 A Famous Celebration Photos donated by Damaris Gomez Late in March or in early April millions of people remember Jesus’s death; and I am interested in how a particular group of people celebrate this event. Last month, while I was doing my homework, two people knocked at my door and offered me an invitation to attend the Memorial of Jesus’s Death. They said that it is an event that takes place once a year on Nisan 14. They explained to me that Nisan is one of the months in the Jewish calendar. Nisan falls in late March and early April. They said that Jewish celebrate the Passover on that day to remember the night when, according to what they showed me in the bible they had on their tablets, Jews were freed from Egypt. The two people who visited me said that Christians remember Jesus’s death, which took place on the same date, on Nisan 14, but in the year 33 E.C. They said that Jesus was a Jew and celebrated the Passover but later instituted a new c