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10/16/09 BR- What is the main river of Egypt?

10/16/09 BR- What is the main river of Egypt?. Today : National Get Your Stuff Done Day. To Do Today:. Finish up artifact analysis or exit slip Hand back folder Check snap grades Get new books Get first out of class assignment (Chapters 1-4).

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10/16/09 BR- What is the main river of Egypt?

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  1. 10/16/09BR- What is the main river of Egypt? Today: National Get Your Stuff Done Day

  2. To Do Today: • Finish up artifact analysis or exit slip • Hand back folder • Check snap grades • Get new books • Get first out of class assignment (Chapters 1-4)

  3. Artifact Analysis(answer on paper, you may have to guess on some things) 1. Type of Artifact: Describe the material from which it was made: bone, pottery, wood, metal, stone, leather, glass, paper, cardboard, cotton, plastic, other material. 2. Special Qualities of Artifact: Describe how it looks and feels: shape, color, texture, size, weight, movable parts, anything printed, stamped or written on it. Are there any special symbols or pictures?

  4. Artifact Analysis(answer on paper, you may have to guess on some things) 3. Uses of the Artifact: What might it have been used for? Who might have used it? Where might it have been used? When might it have been used? 4. What Does the Artifact Tell Us: What does it tell us about technology of the time in which it was made and used? What does it tell us about the life and times of the people who made it and used it? Can you name a similar item today? 5. Make a sketch of the artifact

  5. Exchange an artifact that your classmate has brought in. Don’t have one? See if you can find someone to share. Take the artifact through the analysis process. (questions 1-5) Add the following question: 6. What conclusions can you draw about the person who brought this artifact in?

  6. Exit Slip? (Due NOW!) • What are some problems with relying on artifacts to learn about history? • What other skills or knowledge do you think would be helpful if you were going to study artifacts as a career?

  7. Text Agreement By taking possession of the text “The Ancient Egyptian World” I accept the responsibility of maintaining this text and understand that failure to return the text upon request or that return of the text with damage above normal wear and tear will result in the necessity of my payment in the amount of $45 to replace the text.

  8. Out of Class Assignments: • These assignments will be checked with your binders on Tuesday, October 27. • You should work on them a little at a time and collaborate with your classmates. This does NOT mean just copy answers from each other. The best way to learn something is to try to teach it to someone else. (That’s why teachers are so smart!)

  9. Vocabulary Journal #2 Chapter 1: wielding, barren, relentless, sacred, highlands, obsessively, nilometer, counterweight, caravan, expedition Chapter 2:shriveled, palette, gateway, unification, symbolize, harmony Chapter 3: unwieldy, manageable, dynasty, chaos, divine, parallel, mallet, anvil, papyrus, artisan, magnitude Chapter 4:scribe, apprentice, privileged, breakthrough, fluent, cartouche

  10. Time-Line - (Keep In Your Binder) 3150 BCE - King Scorpion rules; Dynasty 0 3100 BCE - Narmer/Menes unifies Egypt 3050 BCE - Aha rules; first king of 1st Dynasty ~3000 BCE - Writing Begins in Egypt 2700 BCE - Old Kingdom Period Begins (dynasties 3-6) 2668-2649 BCE - Rule of Djoser; 1st pyramid built

  11. Important People (look up and find, then keep in your notebook Chapter 1: Harkhuf, Pepi Chapter 2: Narmer Chapter 3: Djoser, Imhotep Chapter 4: Ptolemy

  12. Study Questions: Chapters 1-4 Chapter 1 • How did the Nile help farmers? • What powers did the people think King Pepi had? • Where did Harkhuf and other traders travel? What did they bring back to Egypt? • Explain why farmers in the Nile River Valley worried every year. • Explain 2 tools farmers in the Nile Valley used. • Describe how people thought the Nile River “gave life.”

  13. Chapter 2 • How did people in Tjeni and Nekhen become wealthy? • What is “topsy-turvy” about the Nile? • How did the artists who carved the Narmer Palette show that the king was more important than the people around him? • What do upper and lower Egypt mean? • Why was the Palette of Narmer created? • On the Palette of Narmer what do the bull’s tail, bull trampling a foe, and staff symbolize?

  14. Chapter 3 • What do the king’s various names tell about what Egyptians believed about the king’s powers? • Why did Egyptians need to get wood from other lands? • What did Imhotep build into his design for the Step Pyramid to fool tomb robbers? • Who worked on the Step Pyramid during flood season? 5. Describe the difference between kingdoms and intermediate periods? 6. How is the Step Pyramid different from earlier royal tombs?

  15. Chapter 4 • Why is the Rosetta Stone important? • Why were hieroglyphs so hard to understand? • What percentage of ancient Egyptians could read? • What was written on the Rosetta Stone? • Why was Egyptian writing called “sacred carving?” • What is Papyrus and what is it used for? • What were some of the jobs of ancient Scribes

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