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    • BVMS 6th Grade World History
    • Weekly Lesson Plan

     

    • October 18-22, 2021

    Teachers: K. Myers/M.Salley/E.Vincent

    Essential Question: What contributed to the successful development of the river valley civilizations of ancient Egypt?

     

    Monday, October 18: 

    Objective:  Investigate how religion affected the lives of the ancient Egyptians including such aspects as architecture, the afterlife, and mummification. (7.1.2)

    Procedure:  Students will learn about the process of mummification by reading a text and playing an interactive game on mummification.  Students will then create a flowchart to organize the steps of mummification.  Students will be assessed through observation, questioning, and completion of flowchart.

    Tuesday, October 19:

    Objective:Illustrate an understanding of the development of civilization in the Nile River Valley. (7.1)

    Procedure:  Students will take a vocabulary test on domain specific vocabulary terms for ancient Egypt.  Then, students will begin working on ancient Egypt Flocabulary lessons.  Students will be assessed through formative evaluation of vocabulary terms/definitions. 

     

     

    Wednesday, October 20:   

    Objective:Investigate how religion affected the lives of the ancient Egyptians including such aspects as architecture, the afterlife, and mummification. (7.1.2)

    Procedure: Students will guide the teacher through the steps of mummification, while the teacher demonstrates these steps on an orange, creating an “Orange Mummy”.  Students will be writing steps in a tree map format as we go through the process, then write a paragraph making a prediction on what will happen to the mummy.  Students will be assessed through observation, questioning, and completion of tree map and  prediction paragraph.

    Thursday, October 21/Friday, October 22:  

     

    Objective:  Describe the unique features of ancient Egyptian culture and social class.  (7.1.3) Determine the significance of the discovery of the Rosetta Stone.  (7.1.5)

    Procedure:   Students will work in small groups to complete a total of 3 stations on Egyptian Achievements.  Students will be assessed through participation with a group and completion of station activities.