1 / 6

Starter Activity

Starter Activity. Please take a look at the below photograph of King Tut’s burial coffins. What do these images tell you about King Tut? . King Tut: Curse or Coincidence . You will be divided into pairs today in class

mercer
Download Presentation

Starter Activity

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Starter Activity • Please take a look at the below photograph of King Tut’s burial coffins. What do these images tell you about King Tut?

  2. King Tut: Curse or Coincidence • You will be divided into pairs today in class • Please complete the King Tut: Curse or Coincidence Activity with your assigned partner • Be sure to read together and answer the attached questions in complete sentences

  3. Summarizing Question • Let’s answer the following question as a class… How do you think the discovery of King Tut’s tomb in 1922 has impacted our understand of the ancient Egyptians?

  4. 3-2-1 Starter Activity Pick up a slip of paper as you take your seats and complete the following… • Please list 3 things that you already know about the Egyptian pharaohs • List 2 things that you remember about King Tut? • Write 1 question you still have about the ancient Egyptians

  5. Section 4, The New Kingdom • The Egyptian Empire started during this time • Pharaohs wanted to expand control beyond the Nile River • The warrior-pharaoh, Thutmose III, extended the Egyptian empire to include Syria and Palestine • Unlike most pharaohs, Hatshepsut, favored building temples and trading • Most pharaohs wanted power and war • Egyptians tradedweapons and metal tools for ivory, leopard skins, and a black wood called ebony

  6. Egyptian Hieroglyphics • Egyptian picture writing is called Hieroglyphics • The key to understanding this writing was the Rosetta Stone Fun fact: The Rosetta Stone was discovered in 1799 and is kept at the British Museum in England

More Related