Monday, March 5, 2018

Gods and Goddesses Resources for Activity Tuesday 6 March

Today we will be doing an activity on Ancient Egyptian Gods and Goddesses in class:

  • Students will be assigned a group
  • Each group will research his assigned God or Goddess
  • Fill in the blanks on each sheet 
  • Research questions suggested 
  • Write any additional information they found during their research
  • Students may use their phone and my internet in class 
They may use this link to read about Egyptian mythology: Click here

We will listen to Mr. Nicky song at the end of the class:


Announcement


The social study quiz which was supposed to take place tomorrow will be reported to next Wednesday and will be covering both the Nile valley during Ancient Egypt and Ancient Egyptian Gods and Goddesses.

Thank you for your understanding.

Thursday, March 1, 2018

Ancient Egypt Resources

Please find two online books that students can read about Ancient Egypt and help them in understading more about it:

Egyptian Mythology and Everyday Life

Ancient Life along the Nile

Homework (Sunday for California and Monday for New York)

Many did not finish the classwork worksheets on the Nile River given in class yesterday.
Students are to complete them. They can use the book and research on the internet.

For those absent:


Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Weekly plan and quiz

The quiz on the Nile valley during Ancient Egypt will be on Wednesday next week. 

Next week we will continue the next chapter about the Old Kingdom. 


Wednesday, February 21, 2018

Homework: Sunday (California) Monday (New York)


Presentation (either on a flash memory or a collage on a board) on the Nile River durring Ancient Egyptian times! The homework below will help for this presentation and any research from the internet can be included as long as it is not a copy paste.

Please make sure students finish completing the 4 questions from the book on the Nile Valley:
1) What are the major features of the Nile River?
2) How did ancient Egyptians control the flooding waters of the Nile?
3) How did the unpredictability of the Nile's floods affect early Egyptians' religious beleifs?
4) How did trade along the Nile support the growth of Egypt?

Please make sure all the vocabulary of the capter is understood including the 5 words in the book:
- Delta
- Cataract
- Arid
- Predict
- Afterlife

Students have watch this video in class and were supposed to take note. Please make sure the notes are complete and they watch the video again at home:


Students have asked me to post the two song realted to this chapter so here they are:

 


Monday, February 19, 2018

New Chapter: The Nile Valley and Ancient Egyptians

We have been learning since the begining of the school year about how civilizations began please watch the video below and remember what we have studied:





Please watch the different resources below as well as reading p.132 -  p.139 in the Social Studies Book for this week.







For the more advanced students: