Ancient Egypt
This is what they called the king of Egypt.
What is a pharoah?
This is when a story is told from the perspective of one character involved in the story.
What is 1st person?
This is the term that Greeks used for their city-states.
What is a polis?
This is when non-human objects are given human characteristics.
What is personification?
This term means to stop or cancel the action of a government official.
What is a veto?
This is a drawing that represented a word or sound.
What is a hieroglyphic?
This is when you use things directly stated in the text by the author to support your answer.
What is citing evidence?
This is a member of a community that was coined by the Greeks.
What is a citizen?
This is when good readers use details from the story to create a picture in their minds.
What is visualizing?
This was a clothing item that men wore to show their citizenship in Rome.
What is a toga?
This is the material that Egyptians used to write on.
What is papyrus?
This is when a story is told by a narrator that is not in the story and knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters.
What is 3rd person omniscient?
This is the type of government made famous by the Greeks. It is what our government is based upon.
What is a democracy?
This is what the R.A.C.E. writing strategy stands for.
What is Restate, Answer, Cite, and Explain?
This is a state that is divided into many countries or provinces.
What is an empire?
This is the statue that guards the road to Khafre's pyramid.
What is the Sphinx?
This is when we choose the most likely explanation from the facts at hand.
What is inferring? (or making an inference)
Men in this city-state were primarily concerned with the arts and literature.
What was Athens?
These divide a piece of text into sections.
What is a heading?
These were the two most powerful men in the government of the Roman Republic.
Who were the consuls?
Ancient Egyptians worshiped many gods, also known as this.
What is polytheism?
This is when we break down a text to better understand the idea of it.
Men in this city-state were primarily concerned with war.
What is Sparta?
This is the area next to, at the top of, or on the bottom of a piece of text. It is used often in your Close Reader.
What is a margain?
The workers were in charge of festivals and maintaining public buildings.
What is an aedile?