King Tut
Jo-Evin Fuller
Grade: 3rd
Standards:
Geography:
3.9 Analyze primary and secondary sources, maps, photographs, texts, and artifacts for
contradictions, supporting evidence, and historical details. (Primary Sources.)
Africa:
3.47 Tell a historic story with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details while
speaking audibly in coherent sentences using information gained from timelines,
primary sources and informational text. (C, G, H, P) Suggestions are: Ancient Egypt and
the pyramids, Nile River, Tutankhamen, Bartholomew Diaz lands on Cape of Good
Hope, Nelson Mandela, and current events.
ELA: Reading: Literature
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.1
Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text
as the basis for the answers.
ELA: Reading: Informational Texts:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.7
Use information gained from illustrations (e.g., maps, photographs) and the words in a text to
demonstrate understanding of the text (e.g., where, when, why, and how key events occur).
(Primary Sources)
ELA: Writing:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.3
Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique,
descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
Literacy: Speaking and Listening:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.3.1
Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacherled) with diverse partners on grade 3 topics and texts, building on others' ideas and expressing
their own clearly.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.3.1.B
Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., gaining the floor in respectful ways, listening to
others with care, speaking one at a time about the topics and texts under discussion).
Paired Text Set:
The Lost Diary of Tutankhamun’s Mummy
Fiction
Written by: Clive Dickinson
Illustrated by: George Hollingworth and
Martin Chatterton
Published by: Troll Communications L.L.C.
(1998, United States)
Lexile Level: 1090L
Tutankhamen’s Tomb
Non-Fiction
Written by: Jen Green
Illustrated by: Gary Slater
Consultant: Dr. Julie Renee Anderson
Published by: Barron’s Educational Series, Inc.
(2007, New York)
Lexile Level: 910L
This is a photo of King Tutankhamen’s
sarcophagus. The Link to this source is
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/matpc.23054/
Geography 3.9
Activity:
As a group, we will discuss what we know, and place the information on a classroom KWL
chart. (CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.3.1 and CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.3.1.B)
Following the completing of the classroom KWL chart, students will have the opportunity to
review the primary sources for this lesson. They will fill out the source analysis worksheet with
their group (link below). We will then read the text Tutankhamen’s Tomb, and after we complete
Tutankhamen’s Tomb, we will read The Lost Diary of Tutankhamun’s Mummy. When we have
completed these books, students will work on a Venn diagram to show any similarities they
found in the texts (CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.7). They will also answer the questions on their
text-dependent questions worksheet. We will discuss Tutankhamun’s Mummy, and I will allow
students time to discuss if they believe it is an “accurate” description of who King Tut was, and
how ancient Egypt was based on what we learned in Tutankhamen’s Tomb. Why or Why Not?
Students will then have the opportunity to write their very own diary, as if they were living under
the reign of King Tut. They will use accurate and relevant information we have learned in our
reading and through the primary sources we viewed. (CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.3 and
AFRICA 3.47) Sample prompt questions would include:
Do you think King Tut would have been your friend? Why or Why Not? Would you want to be
his friend?
What do you think King Tut’s day was like?
Do you think it was hard to be the “boy-king”? Why or Why Not?
At the end of the lesson, the students and I will review the text-dependent questions worksheet to
assess their understanding.
http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/worksheets/artifact_analysis_worksheet.pdf
Artifact Analysis Worksheet for Primary Source
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Good-Readers-Comprehension-Strategies-306671
Sample KWL for classroom