The Shortest Day: Celebrating the Winter Solstice, by Wendy Pfeffer and Jesse Reisch

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Questions to ask:
-How did the coming of winter affect early people’s lives?
-Why was this more important for people in pre-industrial societies?
-What could people observe about the changing season and time of the solstice without modern technology and astronomical knowledge?
-How did different peoples celebrate this time of year?
-What’s different and what’s similar about different cultures’ celebrations?
-Why do people celebrate Christmas in the same week as the Solstice?
-Why does the year officially end (in Western calendars) around the same time?
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