202 Early World Civilizations: Supplemental Guide 11B | Tutankhamun, The Golden Pharaoh, Part I
Vocabulary Instructional Activity^5 minutes
Word Work: Removed
- 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. - Say the word removed with me three times.
- Removed means moved or taken away.
- Carter removed the dust from the wall so that he could see the
hieroglyphics carved into the wall. - [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.”] - 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.