1. Welcome to Class!
Entry Task #5: How many days until Halloween? How many days until November? Approximately, how many months until Christmas? Approximately, how many months until your birthday? Approximately, how many months until summer? How do you know all of those things? Due: Importance of the Nile worksheet

2. Environmental Control
Farming and Domestication
Used the river as a highway
Irrigation used during the growing season
Reservoirs to trap water during the flooding
Dams/dikes to hold back water
Canals to redirect water to the river

3. Technology Shaduf: long pole with a basket for holding water
Ships/ sailboats

4. Calendar
Calendar based on events of the Nile River.
Three Seasons

5. Inundation The time of flooding
Considered the start of the year “new beginnings”

6. Emergence
The flooding ends
The planting begins in the fertile soil

7. Harvest
Crops ready to collect

8. Egyptian Calendar
Information on Pg. 137 Instructions on handout Due Monday

9. Egyptian Calendar Information on Pg. 137 Instructions on handout
Due Moday

10. Egyptian Calendar
Information on Pg. 137 Instructions on handout Due Monday

11. Egyptian Calendar
Information on Pg. 137 Instructions on handout Due Monday