1. History of the Ancient and Medieval World Egypt: Gift of the Nile
Walsingham Academy
Mrs. McArthur
Room 111

2. Identify by Placing Letter Provided:
Nile River (A) Tigris River (B) Persian Gulf (C) Nubia (D)
Pyramids (E) Upper Egypt (F) Cataracts (G) Libyan Desert (H)
Shade:
Fertile Crescent
Pinpoint:
Sumerian City-States)

3. Theme: Role of Geography
Activating Prior Knowledge
Study your maps and add as necessary: Upper Egypt, Lower Egypt and Nubia.
Identify: the Nile and its cataracts, Aswan Dam.
Identify the natural resources
Identify the main areas of major monuments.
Identify protective natural barriers.

5. The Nile: Where Egypt Began (Practice your Listening Skills)
Egyptians used the shadoof for:
River transportation
Building the pyramids
Irrigating their fields
Dredging their fields

7. Making Inferences Sometimes the idea is not stated directly.
You have to find clues in a passage,
put them together with what you already know to form an inference.
An inference is an informed guess.

8. Test your knowledge!

9. Check Yourself!
Using the chart above, consider:
How religion and learning played important roles in ancient Egyptian civilization?

10. Interesting Egyptian Gods
Amon-Re “The Greatest”
What role did this god play in lives of the pharaohs?
Based on this role, how do you think religion was viewed?
Osiris (God of the Dead)
Isis (Goddess of Eternal After-Life)
Bastet of Bubastis
(Cat Goddess of home, women and children)

11. Virtual Field Trips Tutankhamen's tomb All About the After Life
How do we know that Egyptians thought seriously about the After Life?
Tutankhamen's tomb
All About the After Life
Find out More
What do these finding suggest about ancient Egyptian culture?
What sorts of crimes does the confession say one has not committed?
Mummification Interactive

12. Virtual Field Trips
Using the worksheet posted on SPA, explore these sites to find out more about ancient Egyptian cutlure.
Extra Time: Go to:
Watch the History Channel Series: Engineering an Empire: Egypt or Ancient Mysteries: The Rosetta Stone.

13. What are you viewing?

14. Comparing and Contrasting: Civilizations
Similarities, differences and proofs
(how we know)
Geography
Cities
Organized Religion
Central Governments
Specialization of Labor
Social Classes
Public works (roads, etc.) + monuments*
Fine Arts (art, literature, architecture)*
Learning (writing, science, math)
Specifically Consider: What do they tell us?
*Epic of Gilgamesh
*Pyramids

15. Egypt- Gift of the Nile Questions to Consider
Analyze the impact of geography on the course of Egyptian history.
How is Egyptian historical development both like and unlike that of Mesopotamia? (Compare and Contrast question)

16. When you write a history essay,
Remember to:
Use a topic sentence that states a position.
Organize logically the key ideas which you:
Explain and relate to other ideas (analysis-why important)
Support by facts (what happened?)
and for which you
Provide evidence (How do we prove it?)

17. Early Civilizations: Mesopotamia and Egypt Prepare for Test
Looking Ahead: This Weekend!
Early Civilizations: Mesopotamia and Egypt Prepare for Test
Text-Based Reading, pp and 44-56
Format includes:
15 Multiple Choice (15 Points)
1 Essay (10 Points)
1 Drawing (5 Points)
30 Points Total

18. Preparing For Tests
Organize your lecture notes, PowerPoint Presentations, readings and Virtual Field trip notes.
Rehearse out loud every day.
Participate in note taking and class discussion.
Ask questions based on personal preparations.
Anticipate questions by forms indicated.
Use the buddy system.
Observe deadlines.

19. Bring text every day this week.
Assignment 1
Bring text every day this week.
Add details to your Ancient Middle East map (use slides #3 + 4 and text, pp 47)
Read text, pp (top)
Complete appropriate portions of Section 3 Note taking Study Guide
Answer Checkpoint questions
Define “blue-type” words
Due Dates:
Fri., Sept. 21: Student Choice – Cuneiform due
Wed., September 26
Test: Early Civilizations: Mesopotamia & Egypt
Monday, October 8: Black Ships… read

20. Want an interactive version? Follow this link.
Assignment 2
Bring text every day this week.
Read text, pp
Complete appropriate portions of Section 3 Note taking Study Guide
Answer Checkpoint questions
Complete Map Skills questions
Want an interactive version? Follow this link.
Define “blue-type” words
Due Dates:
Fri., Sept. 21: Student Choice – Cuneiform due
Wed., September 26
Test: Early Civilizations: Mesopotamia & Egypt
Monday, October 8: Black Ships… read

21. Assignment 3 Bring text every day this week.
Read text, pp (top)
Answer Thinking Critically questions
Complete appropriate portions of Section 4 Note taking Study Guide (model is on pp 50)
Answer 2 Checkpoint questions
Define “blue-type” words
Lose a Note Taking Study Guide: They are available for download at www. phschool.com. Chapter 2’s code is nad-0201 (pp 29 – Always provided at Chapter’s opening page)

22. Assignment 4 Test your knowledge! Bring text every day. Due Dates:
Read text, pp
Complete appropriate portions of Section 4 Note taking Study Guide
Answer Checkpoint questions
Define “blue-type” words
Bring headphones for lab work
Due Dates:
Fri., Sept. 21: Student Choice – Cuneiform due
Wed., September 26
Test: Early Civilizations: Mesopotamia & Egypt
Monday, October 8: Black Ships… read
Test your knowledge!