1. Hello Scholars Today you need: A trusty writing utensil.
Your Field Notes.
You may want to get your colored pencils.
2 days until vacation!

2. What PAGES of History? Politics Anthropology Geography Economy
Sociology
History
Harvesting wheat along the Nile River
Canadian Museum of History

3. Essential Question
What do artifacts reveal about the ancient world?

4. Let’s Make a Ushabti Learning Targets
I understand Egyptian beliefs about the afterlife.
I can demonstrate how to write in Egyptian hieroglyphics.
I can explain the purpose of an Egyptian ushabti.
I can create an image of a ushabti.

6. Let’s Make a Egyptian Ushabti
Today, we will learn how to get other people to do your chores!
Let’s Make a Egyptian Ushabti

7. How did an Egyptian get to the afterlife?
pharaoh dies

8. The afterlife is a lot of work!
After being judged by Osiris, the soul would go to Aaru, the Field of Reeds
The afterlife is a lot of work!

9. This is a ushabti (also known as a shabti).
It’s a clay figure that was buried with people in ancient Egypt.

10. Important Egyptians were often buried with their servants.
They thought that servants would continue to work for them in the afterlife.
But too many servants were dying, so the Egyptians decided to bury a statue instead.

11. Ushabtis were figures of specific people.
The name of the person was written in a cartouche.

12. The ushabtis were given specific chores to do
The ushabtis were given specific chores to do. That way, ushabtis could do the work so the real person didn’t have to.
After all, ancient Egyptians wanted to relax in the afterlife, not work.

13. You are going to start making your own ushabti.
Write your name in hieroglyphics in the cartouche.
Write the instructions:
If [first name] be decreed to do any work such as [job/work], I, Ushabti, will do it.
Decorate your ushbti.
Cut out your ushabti.
Write your name on the bottom of the back IN PENCIL.

14. Closure Tidy up art tray Put all papers in Field Notes.
Put Field Notes NEXT TO the art tray.
Wait for further directions.