Week 1 Topics
This is our read aloud book for the Egypt Unit.
What is the Red Pyramid?
These are ancient Egyptian written symbols.
What are hieroglyphics?
This is a group of people born and living in about the same time (about 30 year groupings).
What is a generation?
This author wrote the four page "Once Upon a Time" introduction we read in class.
Who is E. H. Gombrich?
This Greek thinker believed that good questions lead to more good questions, not always answers.
This is the place in our notebooks where we store new words or terms from social studies.
What is the Glossary?
What is mummify the body?
Edward Gibbon said that history was a list of the crimes, follies and *these* of mankind.
What are misfortunes?
These are the animals depicted on the first page of the Once Upon a Time reading.
What are dinosaurs?
Socrates was jailed and punished for rejecting these traditional beliefs.
What is believing in many Greek Gods?
This is the first section of our notebooks.
What is the Table of Contents?
This is the river in NE Africa that allowed life and civilization to develop and flourish in Ancient Egypt.
What is the Nile?
Moderata Fonte suggested that history would never be complete because *these* are the only authors of history.
What are men?
This is what Gombrich describes lighting and dropping into a well, which symbolizes what we know and remember back in time?
What is a burning piece of paper?
This is an argument in which there are two sides and a winner, who is determine by a vote.
What is a debate?
This was our first written assignment for the year, which asked you to imagine doing this.
What is go back in time/time travel?
This Ancient Egyptian god was the Ruler of the Sun and Air, and was the most powerful of all the gods.
Who is Amun?
This term, used in science and in history, describes a gradual change over time.
What is evolution?
This is the method of closely reading a text, marking it up and making notes in the margins.
What is annotation?
This word is from the Greek root words philo (love of) and sophos (knowledge).
What is philosophy?
This Egyptian God is depicted with the head of a jackal and was the god of embalming and the dead.
Who was Anubis?
These were the rulers of Ancient Egypt, who assumed god-like status and were worshipped as gods.
Who were the Pharaohs?
Eric Hobsbawm wrote *this* is life.
What is memory?
This is the symbol or metaphor Gombrich uses to describe history as infinite and getting smaller and smaller as it gets further into the past.
What is a funhouse mirror?
This is the poison which claimed the life of Socrates in prison.
What is hemlock?