Vocabulary
Longest river located in Africa
What is the Nile River?
This word translates to "great house"
What is pharaoh?
No country has everything it needs, they have to _______ for items.
What is trade?
Which US state has a town named Santa Claus?
Indiana
These questions are found right there in the text.
What are thin questions?
The flat, fan-shaped land made of silt deposited at the mouth of a river, such as the Nile River
What is a delta?
This queen organized a successful trading voyage to Punt.
Who is Queen Hatshepsut?
When the Nile River flooded it deposited this rich soil on the dry land.
What is silt?
How long does it take for the average Christmas tree to grow to its full size?
What is 7 years?
What the text is mostly about
What is main idea?
The first paper used to write on in Ancient Egypt
What is papyrus?
Ptolemy V wrote a royal decree on this stone slab in three different language including hieroglyphs.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
This caused the end of the Old Kingdom along with civil war.
famine
Which fruit used to be a popular stocking stuffer?
What is an orange?
These details from the text support a main idea.
The largest hot desert, located in Northern Africa.
What is the Sahara Desert?
During this time period Egypt grew rich and powerful through trade.
What is the Middle Kingdom?
These factors influenced the placement of Egyptian cities because of fertile soil, transportation, and water access.
What are environmental factors?
In Charles Dickens’s classic book A Christmas Carol, what is Scrooge’s first name?
Who is Ebeneezer?
Name a text clue that helps you find main idea.
What is (headings, title, thesis statement in intro or conclusion, OR repeated words)?
the northernmost region of Ancient Egypt, which consists of the fertile Nile Delta
What is Lower Egypt?
This pharaoh created a time of prosperity and stability; known as a great military leader and builder.
Who is Ramses?
Mummification represented the Egyptians connection to their environment the Nile River represented life and this represented death.
What is the Sahara Desert?
This bird's feather was used in the first artificial Christmas trees in the 1800s.
What are goose feathers?
To answer thick questions, you use this and the information in the text.
What is prior knowledge?