Grade 1 - Early world Civilizations

202 Early World Civilizations: Supplemental Guide 11B | Tutankhamun, The Golden Pharaoh, Part I

 Vocabulary Instructional Activity^5 minutes

Word Work: Removed

1. In today’s read-aloud you heard that while Carter was searching for
   the tomb of Tutankhamun, Carter and his men removed the huts of
   ancient workers in order to dig into the ground beneath the huts.


2. Say the word removed with me three times.


3. Removed means moved or taken away.


4. Carter removed the dust from the wall so that he could see the
   hieroglyphics carved into the wall.


5. [Show students the object wrapped in layers of paper or cloth.] There
   is a surprise in here, but what do we need to remove in order to fi nd
   out what it is?
   [Invite different students to come up and remove one layer. Have the
   rest of the class say: “[Name of student] removed a layer of paper/
   cloth.”]


6. What’s the word we have been talking about?

Early World Civilizations Chart 5 minutes

Farming Cities Writing Leaders Religion

Mesopotamia Image Card 1 (Farming) Image Card 2 (Babylon) Image Card 3 (Cuneiform)

Image Card 4

(Hammurabi)

Image Card 6

(Nebuchadnezzar)

Image Card 5

(Ziggurat)

Ancient Egypt Image Card 7 (Farming) Image Card 8 (City) Image Card 9 (Hieroglyphs)

Image Card 13

(Hatshepsut)

Image Card 14

(Tutankhamun)

Image Card

10 (Egyptian

gods)

Show students Image Card 14 (Tutankhamun). Talk about the

Image Card, and have students share what they learned from the

read-aloud about King Tut. Ask students how King Tut was similar

to Hatshepsut. (They were both leaders or pharaohs in ancient

Egypt.) Ask students how King Tut was different from Hatshepsut.

(male, etc.) Tell students that you are going to place the Image

Card in the Leaders column on the Civilizations Chart to help them

remember that the ancient Egyptians had leaders called pharaohs.