Saturday, August 25, 2012

Week Two: Unification of Upper and Lower Egypt and the Old Kingdom

Teach K-10 Ancient history, using Veritas Press as a spine.





Napoleon and the Scientific Expedition to Egypt

Travels in Upper and Lower Egypt - Vivant Denon, the first Frenchman to sketch Ancient Egypt





Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelly

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away". 




Measuring the Spinx - Denon



by Denon, the first Frenchman to sketch Ancient Egypt
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Schedule:

Monday: Unification of Upper and Lower Egypt

  Read aloud pp 1-7 The Flooding of the Nile (VP Ancient Egypt) The first half was interesting. The second part was not as interesting.
  
  Start salt map of Egypt
  Assign books for individual reading
  Do worksheet.
  Put in notebook

Wednesday: Unification of Upper and Lower Egypt

  Read aloud pp 8-14 The Flooding of the Nile (VP Ancient Egypt)
  
  Finish salt map
  Independent Reading and exploring links listed below.
  Do coloring page
  Take test
  Put in notebook.

Thursday: The Old Kingdom in Egypt

  Do worksheet
  Read aloud Book of the Dead vs the Bible project 2(VP Ancient Egypt) primary grades 
  Watch video on Pyramids-very good 
  Project 3 - middle school and high school
  Independent Reading
  Spinx coloring page
  Put things in notebook
  Take test



Books:

A Child's History of the World-chapters 6, 7

In the Days of the Pharaohs: A Look at Ancient Egypt

Pyramid - David Macaulay

The Age of God Kings - Time-Life Books

Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt


Resources:


Build a Pyramid-online game






1/4 On how the pyramids were built. Very Good.




Lecture on Namer





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