Unit 2: River
Civilizations
Part 2 –
Egypt
Study
Guide
Use this guide with the “Unit 2, Egypt” reading.
In this unit we will do things a bit differently. To demonstrate your understanding of
Egypt you will take a test and write an essay. But, the test will only be on terms and
vocab. And, this time we will practice “Chunking” the terms together to make them
easier to remember.
Your TMD work will help you set up an outline for the essay. So, although it looks
like much more work, you should find that when you set it up write, it works much
more efficiently and makes your life easier.
Egypt Content Test.
At the end of this unit you will have a test on the following terms. To help make them easier to
learn we group them together.
Pharaohs and important People
Menes
Zoser
Cheops/Khufu
Amenemhet I
Hatshepsut
Thutmose III
Amenhotep III/Akhenaton
Tutankhamun
Ramses II
Other Government terms
Vizier
Gods
Horus
Re
Osiris
Isis
Other Religious terms
Mummification
Book of the Dead
Places and Geography
Nile Delta
Upper Egypt
Lower Egypt
The Egyptian Empire
Time Periods
Old Kingdom
Middle Kingdom
Hyksos
New Kingdom
Inventions and Art
Papyrus
Step Pyramid
Great Pyramids of Giza
Hieroglyphics
Obelisks
Sphinx
Staple Crop
Egypt Essay.
By now we have seen how
civilizations use their government and
religion to help them meet their
challenges. But with Egypt, we can
now start to see how they changed
those things over time to improve on
them. Egypt didn’t do the same thing
in the New Kingdom as they did in the
Old Kingdom because their challenges
changed. So, your thesis question to
answer in this unit is:
How did Egypt change their government and religion over the course of
the Old, Middle, and New Kingdom to meet new challenges?
Let’s get started with Research!
Now it is time to do your research. For this assignment you do not need to use any resource
other than your Egypt Reading. It will give you as much as I need. Now here is the cool thing.
If you organize your notes well from the beginning you will notice that the hardest part of your
essay is already done.
Instead of doing a TMD that asks you to write the details of every section, you can organize it by
the main ideas of the paragraphs you will want to write in your essay. I have provided you with
a template that you can use to organize your information.
You will notice as you do your research, that you do not need everything in the packet. You are
just focusing on stuff that has to do with changes in the government and religion. There is other
interesting information in the reading that helps you understand Egypt better, but you don’t need
to write down everything.
Egypt Essay TMD Research Outline:
Name
Topic: The Old Kingdom
Context Details: When, Who, How did it start, How did it end?
MI: The Old Kingdom’s challenge was:
Details:
MI: The Old Kingdom Government was set up to solve its challenges:
Details:
MI: The Old Kingdom Religion was set up to meet its challenges
Details:
Topic: The Middle Kingdom
Context Details: When, Who, How did it start, How did it end?
MI: The Middle Kingdom’s challenge was:
Details:
MI: The Middle Kingdom Government was set up to solve its challenges:
Details:
MI: The Middle Kingdom Religion was set up to meet its challenges
Details:
Topic: The New Kingdom
Context Details: When, Who, How did it start, How did it end?
MI: The New Kingdom’s challenge was:
Details:
MI: The New Kingdom Government was set up to solve its challenges:
Details:
MI: The New Kingdom Religion was set up to meet its challenges
Details:
Essay Scoring Rubric
Purpose:
o Thesis in introduction clearly states that Egypt overcame their challenges by
changing their gov/rel or art/tech.
o
Each body paragraph shows what the challenge of that kingdom was.
o
Details in body paragraph support the changes they made to meet the
challenge
o
Can tell what thesis is in each body paragraph even if didn’t read the intro
o
Conclusion is about what we can learn from changing to meet challenges
Organization
o Context in Introduction explains challenges or the Egyptian Kingdom
o
Thesis in Intro
o
Body paragraphs have a topic sentence that introduces the kingdom and its
challenge
o
Body paragraphs have detail
o
Body paragraphs have a concluding sentence that sum up the thesis
o
Care and consideration are given to the order that details or main ideas are
put in. Not just random.
o
Conclusion restates thesis
o
Conclusion states what we can learn.
Detail:
o
Context covers all important who, what, where, when etc info of Egyptian
kingdoms
o
Cover all important changes to Old Kingdom Gov/Rel or Tech/Art that are
covered in the reading.
o
Cover all important changes to Middle Kingdom Gov/Rel or Tech/Art that
are covered in the reading.
o
Cover all important changes to New Kingdom Gov/Rel or Tech/Art that are
covered in the reading.
o
Voice:
o
Edited for Grammar, Spelling and Mechanics to show that you care about
what you are saying.
o
Sophisticated word choice and sentences selected. No “Did you ever
wonder what Egypt…” or “In this paragraph I am going to tell you…”