History of the
Ancient and
Medieval World
Egypt: Gift of the Nile
Walsingham Academy
Mrs. McArthur
Room 111
Assignment 1
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Bring text every day this week.
Add details to map (use slide #4 and text)
Read text, pp. 44-46 (top)
Answer Checkpoint questions
Define “blue-type” words
Due Dates:
Friday, 9/19: Optional X-Credit (cuneiform)
Writing Workshop, after school, room 111
Wed./Thurs, September 24/25
Test: Early Civilizations: Mesopotamia & Egypt
Monday, October 6: Black Ships… read
Theme: Role of
Geography
Activating Prior Knowledge
• Study your maps and add as
necessary: Upper Egypt, Lower
Egypt and Nubia.
• Identify: the Nile and its cataracts,
Aswan Dam.
• Identify the natural resources
• Identify the main areas of major
monuments.
• Identify protective natural barriers.
Egypt- Gift of the Nile
Questions to Consider
• Explain the impact of
geography on the course of
Egyptian history.
• How is Egyptian historical
development both like and
unlike that of Mesopotamia?
Due Dates:
Friday, 9/19: Optional X-Credit (cuneiform)
Wed./Thurs, September 24/25
Test: Early Civilizations: Mesopotamia & Egypt
Monday, October 6: Black Ships… read
Assignment 2
Bring text every day this week.
• Read text, pp. 46-48
• Answer Checkpoint questions
• Complete Map Skills questions
Want an interactive version? Follow this
link.
• Define “blue-type” words
Making Inferences
• Sometimes the idea is not
stated directly.
• You have to find clues in a
passage,
• put them together with what
you already know to form an
inference.
• An inference is an informed
guess.
The Nile: Where Egypt
Began
Egyptians used the shadoof for:
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River transportation
Building the pyramids
Irrigating their fields
Dredging their fields
Reading to Learn: Pinpointing the Main Ideas
Test your knowledge!
Assignment 3
Bring text every day this week.
• Read text, pp. 49
• Answer Thinking Critically
questions
• Bring headphones for laptop
Friday: Writing Workshop, after school, room 111
Virtual Field Trips
Several American museums
–New York and Bostonposses serious Egyptian
collections.
Due Dates:
Friday, 9/19: Optional X-Credit (cuneiform)
Wed./Thurs, September 24/25
Test: Early Civilizations: Mesopotamia &
Egypt
Virtual Field Trips
•How do we know that Egyptians
thought seriously about the After
Life?
Tutankhamen's tomb
All About the After Life
•What do these finding suggest
about ancient Egyptian culture?
Assignment 4
Bring text every day this week.
• Read text, pp. 50-53 (top)
• Complete appropriate portions
of Section 4 Note taking Study
Guide
• Answer Checkpoint questions
• Define “blue-type” words
• Writing Workshop, Friday
after school in room 111.
Interesting Egyptian
Gods
Amon-Re “The Greatest”
1. What role did this god play
in lives of the pharaohs?
2. Based on this role, how do
you think religion was
viewed?
Osiris (God of the Dead)
Isis (Goddess of Eternal AfterLife)
Bastet of Bubastis
(Cat Goddess of home,
women and children)
Assignment 5
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Bring text every day.
Read text, pp. 53-56
Complete appropriate portions
of Section 4 Note taking Study
Guide
Answer Checkpoint questions
Define “blue-type” words
Due Dates:
Friday, 9/19: Optional X-Credit (cuneiform)
Wed./Thurs, September 24/25
Test: Early Civilizations: Mesopotamia &
Egypt
Test your knowledge!
Looking Ahead!
Early Civilizations
Test
30 Points Total
Format includes:
• 10 Multiple Choice (10 Points)
• 1 Essay (15 Points)
• 1 Drawing (5 Points)
Preparing For Tests
• Organize your lecture notes,
PowerPoint Presentations, readings
and Virtual Field trip notes.
• Rehearse out loud every day.
• Participate in note taking and class
discussion.
• Ask questions based on personal
preparations.
• Anticipate questions by forms
indicated.
• Use the buddy system.
• Observe deadlines.
Comparing and
Contrasting: Civilizations
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Similarities, differences and proofs
(how we know)
Geography
Cities
Organized Religion
Central Governments
Specialization of Labor
Social Classes
Public works (roads, etc.) +
monuments*
Fine Arts (art, architecture)*
Literacy (writing)
Specifically Consider: What do they tell
us?
*Epic of Gilgamesh
*Pyramids
When you write a
history essay:
Organize logically the key ideas
which you:
• Explain and relate to other ideas
(analysis-why important)
• Support by facts (what happened?)
and for which you
• Provide evidence (How do we prove
it?)
Here’s an example:
Mesopotamia’s geography, dominated by the violent
and unpredictable flooding, promoted a
pessimistic, even fatalistic outlook toward life.
Mesopotamia’s literature, for example, the Epic of
Gilgamesh, supports this view. In this epic poem,
we see the fearsome effects of a terrible flood and
finally we see nature (snake) triumphing over man.