Paragraph 2.4 - Gods of Egypt - 2023

• Gechiedenis
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 1

Today

Paragraph 2.4 - Gods, mummies and pyramids

At the end of the lesson you will know/be able to…

• why the afterlife was so important to the Egyptians
  
• name at least three Egyptian gods and their characteristics

• Read together:  ‘The Egyptian society: layer for layer’ and 'How could you see social differences?' (TB 39)
• Can you recognize the different layers in the picture to the right?
• Individually: exercise 9, 10 and 11 (WB 56-8)
• Done and waiting?: homework is reading ‘The pharaoh: a god-king’ (TB 38) and make exercise 6 (WB 54) and exercise 12 (WB 58) 

Artifical way to spread water across farmland to make it fertile

1. Agricultural-urban society
2. Antiquity
3. Dynasty
4. Irrigation

Someone who makes products with his tands and tools

1. Pharaoh
2. Scribe
3. Craftsman
4. Civil servant

Cuneiform is....

1. 
2. 
3. 
4. 

Upper Egypt is....

1. The north of Egypt (delta area)
2. The south of Egypt (where the Nile starts)

Egyptian gods

• Look at exercise 2a (WB 59)
• The teacher reads 'The Egyptians had multiple gods' (TB 41)  and you fill out the names of the gods that fit the description 
• Teacher will give the remaining names 

How come?

Pair: read 'Linking words to express cause and effect' (WB 60) make exericise 3  (WB 60) and 2 b (WB 59) (YES IN THIS ORDER!)

Connected with the gods

Think: read 'Powerful priests' (TB 41)

Pair: make exercise 4 (WB 61)

Share: discuss exercise

The heretic pharaoh

Together: read 'Polytheistic and monotheistic' (TB 42) 

Pair: make exercise 5 c and d (WB 62)

To make a mummy

Pair: read 'Preparations for the afterlife' (TB 42-3) and make exercise 6 (WB62)

How to...

• Read to you by Mrs. Den Boer: 'Pyramids: mysterious monuments' (TB 43)
• After watching the clip --> 
• Make exercise 9 (WB 64)

From out in the open to hidden away

Read together: 'Hidden tombs' (TB 44)

In pairs: make exercise 10 and 11

Share: discuss exercises 

Study the key words of paragraph 2.1 up to and including 2.4

Make exercise 7, 12 and 13 (WB 62-5)