The Great Pyramids Reflection

On your own blog in the title section, write “The Great Pyramids Reflection”
Think back upon the movie we watched about the great pyramids and gather some of the interesting facts an ideas in your head. Then, write a detailed paragraph with the most interesting information that you learned.
Make sure to spell check, grammar check, read [...]

Ancient Egyptian Speech Reflection

Fantastic Job Grade 6! I very much enjoyed today’s class, and everyone did a magnificent job. I especially liked the great costumes people created to help them accurately present the person/god they chose.
Make sure to write a full paragraph describing your feelings in response to the following questions/statement. Make sure to spell [...]

Famous Egyptians Speech Reminder

You will be presenting your Famous Egyptians Speech next period. You must be in costume to help accurately present the person/god you chose, and you must turn in all of your work. That means you have at least two full pages of notes, from at least two different sources, your finished web, and your [...]

Homework Jan 30/31

Now that we have finished our Ancient Egyptian historical fiction stories let’s see what people wrote. Read at least one person’s story from each one of the 6th grade blocks and post a comment on the person’s blog. Please write specific comments about why you liked the story. Remember, all comments must [...]

Egyptian Gods

Do image searches to find pictures of the Egyptian Gods. Make a post with the name of the god, a simple caption explaining what this god represents, a picture of the god, and lastly the URL of the site you found the picture.
Example:

Ra: The Sun God
http://www.ra-horakhty.co.uk/images/what_i22.jpg

Homework Jan 28/29

Your have two  homework tasks for next class.
First, you must hand-in all drafts of  your Ancient Egyptian Story. Your work should be stapled in this order:
 

rubric on top
final draft
1st draft (with evidence of peer review)

Then, you must create a blog post.  Your post must include:

title
story
pictures

Homework Jan 24/25

You must bring a hard and soft copy of your first draft of your Ancient Egyptian Story to class.  We will be conducting peer conferences and revising our work.

Ancient Egyptian Story

Don’t forget to use the rubric on my resource page as you prepare and revise your masterpiece!

Homework- January 15th/16th

Please finish the study guide for the Ancient Egyptian information that we were researching.  Click on the link below for the site we used  in class.
Mr. Dowling: Ancient Egypt