1. Starter Activity  Please take a look at the below photograph of King Tut’s burial coffins. What do these images tell you about King Tut?

2. King Tut: Curse or Coincidence  You will be divided into pairs today in class  Please complete the King Tut: Curse or Coincidence Activity with your assigned partner  Be sure to read together and answer the attached questions in complete sentences

3. Summarizing Question  Let’s answer the following question as a class… How do you think the discovery of King Tut’s tomb in 1922 has impacted our understand of the ancient Egyptians?

4. 3-2-1 Starter Activity Pick up a slip of paper as you take your seats and complete the following… 1. Please list 3 things that you already know about the Egyptian pharaohs 2. List 2 things that you remember about King Tut? 3. Write 1 question you still have about the ancient Egyptians

5. Section 4, The New Kingdom  The Egyptian Empire started during this time  Pharaohs wanted to expand control beyond the Nile River  The warrior-pharaoh, Thutmose III, extended the Egyptian empire to include Syria and Palestine  Unlike most pharaohs, Hatshepsut, favored building temples and trading  Most pharaohs wanted power and war  Egyptians traded weapons and metal tools for ivory, leopard skins, and a black wood called ebony

6. Egyptian Hieroglyphics  Egyptian picture writing is called Hieroglyphics  The key to understanding this writing was the Rosetta Stone Fun fact: The Rosetta Stone was discovered in 1799 and is kept at the British Museum in England