Second Reading Project Starts!

Yup, you get to create another reading project! Make sure you have a book of your choice suitable for your second reading project by Monday, March 22. We will fill out book commitment forms in class.

The following assignments are due on Monday, March 22, 2010.

• Book Commitment #2
• Reading Log #3
• Say What? #3

Remember, the Say What? Response is simply a journal freewrite about your week's reading. You can write anything that comes to your mind.

Trip to See Sarcophagi & Throw Frisbees

Group H visited the Brooklyn Museum's exhibit To Live Forever: Art of the Egyptian Afterlife. We found many interesting objects including sarcophagi, mummies, canopic jars, amulets, Roman-Egyptian busts, and pieces from the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead.

Check out a cool CT scan of a mummy here. What really IS inside all that linen wrapping? There are also some videos from the curators of the exhibit. Check it!

Luckily the day was so beautiful. We picnicked on the steps of the museum and ended our visit with some Frisbee in Prospect Park. Did you know Rabab is a wicked, elegant Frisbee player? She helped teach everyone else how to throw. Now all we need is a little more practice . . .

Check out the PICS!

Ancient Greece: THE Place to Be!

This week we are beginning our study of Ancient Greece, the birthplace of democracy. We will be working in three stations gathering the basics: Mapping Ancient Greece, Collecting Words, Understanding Geography & People (chapter 25 in History Alive!). Each station has one sheet to gather as much information as possible.

The three worksheets should be completed by Wednesday, March 24.

Ancient Egypt Final Exam

Ancient Egypt Final Exam is on FRIDAY, MARCH 12!

You may use any of the notes collected in your Ancient Egypt folder including:

• social class notes
• Ancient Egypt Kingdom Timeline
• Gods & Goddesses paragraphs
• Afterlife paragraphs
• Ancient Egypt map
• Pharaoh notes

You may also use your Humanities Notebook.

Make sure you remember the following strategies you identified to help you on tests!

• Organize your notes.
• Study before the exam. Maybe with a friend. Maybe make a quiz game out of it.
• Read the question carefully. Circle key words. Use the key words to help you find the answers.
• Use other questions on the exam to help you answer other questions.
• Eliminate answers you know are definitely NOT correct first.
• Determine important details in the passage for understanding the question.

The Mummy Maker

After you have finished the first draft of your Sugar in the Raw essay as well as your Ancient Egypt time line, check out this enrichment activity: The Mummy Maker!

First define and understand the following vocab terms.

• Resin
• Linen
• Embalm
• Vulnerable

Then go to THE MUMMY MAKER game.

Follow the directions and the story on The Mummy Maker game. Read carefully! Do NOT skip the introduction. Answer the following questions based on what you read and do in the game.

1. In which Egyptian Kingdom are you living? Who is Pharaoh?
2. Who are the characters in this game? (Name all 4.)
3. What is your goal?
4. What happens if you fail?
5. What do you do with the body before you embalm it?
6. Which tool did you choose first? What was the result?
7. What are the four ogans that are stored in canopic jars?
8. Who watches over each of them?
9. How do you spell Ramose’s name in Egyptian hieroglyphs?
10. What do you need to remove from the body so that it will not decay? How is it removed?
11. How did you make Ramose look his best for the afterlife?
12. Where are the amulets used? Why?
13. Why don’t you want to ask the scribe to make a label for Ramose?

Ancient Egypt Timeline Study Guide!

Thursday, March 11 we have our final exam on Ancient Egypt. We are summing up all our knowledge on a big time line featuring the Old, Middle, & New Kingdoms. Using the World History textbooks, you will read and take notes with your group.

DUE Friday, March 5.