March 25

High school (ages 12+)
Holidays & Celebrations

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/march-25

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the ordinal day of year?84th day of the year; 85th in leap years
2. What is the remaining days in year?281 days
3. What was special about March 25 in old England?In old England, March 25 was the day people started the new year and also celebrated the Feast of the Annunciation, when the angel Gabriel visited Mary.
4. Why did England change its calendar in 1752?England changed its calendar to fix a 10‑day drift that had built up over centuries and to match the Gregorian calendar used by other European countries.

Gregorian calendar reform: The 1582 papal bull that introduced a revised calendar to correct the inaccuracies of the Julian calendar.
Julian calendar: A solar calendar introduced by Julius Caesar, characterized by a simple leap year rule of adding a day every four years.
Vernal equinox: The astronomical event marking the beginning of spring in the Northern Hemisphere, when day and night are of approximately equal length.
Feast of the Annunciation: A Christian feast day celebrating the announcement by the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary that she would conceive Jesus.