photo by Kanaka Rastamon

For your term project you’re going to make a Día de Los Muertos alter for a member or members of your family as a digital project. You can go about this a number of ways. You can build an actual alter and take pictures and / or video of it. You can create it as a solely digital piece using something like Google slides. Or you can come up with some variation of your own. Your end product needs to be something you can either upload to the class blog or link to from the blog.
Note that there are many variations on how alter can be made and what items it should or can include. It can be alter honoring and remembering one person or one that remembers many. It should include items that are specific to memories of the person or people who the alter is for. Use online sources for alter ideas.

Your alter needs to be constructed (however you describe that) by October 19. It’s going to be the basis for several pieces of writing between then and the end of the semester. Throughout the process, share pictures and thoughts about your alter on Slack.

Alter ideas:
http://www.themijachronicles.com/2011/11/how-to-make-a-dia-de-los-muertos-altar/
http://www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/how-to-build-a-dia-de-los-muertos-altar
http://www.scpr.org/news/2013/10/30/40094/how-to-build-a-dia-de-los-muertos-altar-photos/
http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/10/29/359829045/decoding-the-food-and-drink-on-a-day-of-the-dead-altar
http://archive.azcentral.com/ent/dead/altar/tradaltar.html