Egypt

Overall Objectives:

1. Identify the areas where ancient Egypt emerged and the influence of the River Nile on its development. (p.160/161) 2. Distinguish the historical periods of ancient Egypt. (p.160) 3. List the social groups of Egyptian society and explain their differences and position within the social hierarchy. (p.162, 163) 4. Identify the form of government of ancient Egypt and the civil servant who made up the administration (p.162) 5. Describe the main economical activities in ancient Egypt (p. 164) 6. Explain the characteristics of Egyptian religion and its influence on the social structure. (p. 166)

  7. Comment on the concept of immortality in Egyptian religion and its representation in art. 
  (p. 166)

Week: 21.11.-25.11.2011

Creating a pictionary quiz:   pharaoh, nile, noblemen, priest, scribes, peasants, craftsmen, merchants, warriors, slaves, tomb, hieroglyphycs, cleopatra, plough, shaduf, giza, papyrus, linen, polytheistic, sanctuary, mummies, funeral chamber,



How ?

1. Pictionary
2. Crossword
3. Quiz




Role Play - Problem Solving

Students select a term they want to act out.

Example
Peasant: 
Definition: poor, cultivation, agriculture, the land belonged to the pharaohs, children worked, during floods they were forced to help buliding the pyramids
Pharaoh:
passed laws, governed the country, land owner, led armies, controlled trade

Situation 1:
You are a peasant and don't want to work building pyramids. Your contract is growing crops.
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You are the Pharaoh and because of the Nile flood you want your peasants to help building the great pyramid



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Project: 

Who desings the best blog ? Discover Egypt
Objectives:  Make tourism - Make people watch your blog and say: I want to go to Egypt :)


How ?
- Misteries of the pyramids
- Architecture
- Culture
- Languge and Communication
- Climate
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Click here to see "Pharaohs - The Great Pyramid of Egypt"Part 1

Click here to see part 2
Click here to see part 3
Click here to see part 4
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Check out this interactive Website of Egypt :)

Build a pyramid :)

Play games online and learn about Egypt
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The first civilizations

Objectives:

1. Explain the importance of writing in the passage from Prehistory to History. 2. Identify the early civilizations in History and place them in time and space. 3. Explain the transformation of Neolithic towns into empires. 4. Describe how Mesopotamia developed. 5. Indicate the characteristics of early urban societies, and the differences between them and Neolithic communities.  6. Describe the configuration and social structure of Mesopotamian gods and rituals. 7. Explain the origin and formation of the first schools and describe the subjects taught. 8. Indicate the different social groups of early civilizations and explain their)functin within the social network. 9. Explain the main, general characteristics of Mesopotamian art, focusing on raw materials and types of work and art.

10.Where do you think first civilizations emerged ?

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11. Why are they called river civilizations ? (page 146)

Research:
12. Where did the earliest civilization in history develop?
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13. Create your own crossword puzzle with the following definitions, terms and places:

civilization, Mesopotamia, empire, tomb, dynasty, hierarchical society, priveleged people, subjugated people
Babylon, Assyrian Empire, antient Egypt, ancient China, Emperor Qin, Neolithic town, gods, rituals

14. Students read, analyze and answer the questions from Unit 10. As a reflection they place their own examples (pictures, videos, links) on their blogs and finally making an interactive quiz online.

Choose 10 questions from the book you think are very important and answer them.
Here I give you 3 examples:

What periods was Mesopotamian history divided to?
What is the code of the Hammurabi?
Do you think the content of the Hammurabi Code could be applied today?

So now search for more interesting questions, answer them and design your blog.

Life in prehistory

Task 1: 

What does Atapuerca stand for ?
Why was a good place to live ?
What was one of the biggest discoveries ?

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Task 2:

Can you find some evidence (year) of the oldest human like being ? 
Check out this prehistoric time line.

Task 3: 

How did prehistoric humans survive the ice age after having set foot on Amercian land? Where did some of them come from ? What are the two theories of the origin of prehistoric humans ?

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Task 4: 

When did Prehistory start and when did it end?

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Task 5:                                                                                                                                    

What are the three stages of Prehistory ? When did they happen ?  Name 3 important discoveries of each stage. Click here to see the answer.

Task 6:                                                                                                                                    

First humman beings

The present human being is the result of a long evolutionary process known as...............................?


What were the first human beings called ?
What were their characteristics ?
Make a list of the 4 most important early humans.

Check out this link.
Here is another good link to get the answer from.

Additional information

Check out this amazing list of human evolution