Egypt

Life in Ancient Egypt For this activity you will be split into 5 groups. Each group will have a different section about life in ancient Egypt. Marriage: Food: Clothing: Housing: Hair/Cosmetics:
 * Egypt **

__**Caste System Activity: **__

Students will be completing a small project to help us better understand the caste system of Ancient Egypt. Students will first pick a job that would have been performed in the time period. Then they will be researching the particular job and talking about daily life (clothing, homes, family, etc) they may have had at that time. Students will then create a mini Egyptian that appears to be doing that job/task.

__**Caste System Follow Up Activity: **__ You have just received terrible news: your pharaoh, Pharaoh Lembrich has suddenly died. In the past you have seen some pretty important people die but never a pharaoh! You spend hours preparing a wreath of flowers for your head picked by farmers throughout the land like Xavier, Bryce, and Keller. No one remembers any other pharaoh. Pharaoh Lembrich ruled from when your grandparents were children. Some people thought she would live forever, because, like many Egyptians, a pharaoh is a god. Now she is dead and headed for her tomb in the Valley of the Kings. The ceremony began at her temple at Abu Simbel. At that temple, four 66-foot tall statues of Lembrich guard the entrance created by many of the laborers and slaves like Jake, Smiith, and Schneider. Inside the secret chambers, priests Thompson, Hartmann, and Laehn preserved the pharaoh’s body for burial.

Next, a royal barge carried Pharaoh Lembrich’s casket on the Nile River. Inside is the pharaoh’s mummy, wrapped in orange linen and wearing a gold mask. The gold coming from the upper Nile brought by merchants Stahl and Hoitink. Hundreds of important Egyptians like Government Officials Wollner and Ruppel, and noble Luedtke are in attendance.

Its time to begin the procession. You line up with other mourners behind a group of slaves carrying Lembrich’s most important possessions created by Artisin Ramos. There is her crown! Could it be the one she wore when she first became pharaoh?

Tearing your hair and beating your chest, you wail your song of sorrow; “Great lord of our empire! Provider of lasting peace! Builder of the temples that reach for the sun! Don’t leave us! Without you, we are fatherless children!” Sometimes you fake your cries at funerals, but today you mean every word. Trembling with fear, you wonder what will happen now.


 * Think about the particular job you researched. Discuss with your co-workers what your place would be in the funeral and what your job will have to do to welcome a new pharaoh.

Students will pick groups of 4 to work together to complete a project. Groups will be given one week in class to complete the project, if it is not complete by Friday December, 16 they will have the weekend to complete. The final project will be due Monday December, 19. Once students choose groups to work with they will be presented with 6 different activies. Each activiy can only be chosen one time so groups will have more to hear about Ancient Egypt when they listen to or watch class presentations.
 * Ancient Egypt Group Project: **
 * Here are the choices (specific requirements will be given in class):
 * Create a timeline for some of the major events in Ancient Egyptian history.
 * Create a product that shows where some of Egypt's pyramids are located and the construction involved.
 * Make a model of an Egyptian pyramid.
 * <span style="color: #4f97e3; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Choose an item that would have been important in Egyptian life and then create a commerical to sell it.
 * <span style="color: #4f97e3; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Create a product that represents the mummification process.
 * <span style="color: #4f97e3; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Write and perform a play abouta pharaoh and his or her life.

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