5Th Grade Gifted 8 week Pull-out Egyptian Theme (8 meetings)
Stage One
Essential Questions: How does one's behavior define their self?
How do we define good? What is good?
Why and how do others define the concepts that determine what type of person you are?
How are past cultures remembered and why?
How do we define ourselves?
Students will understand how Egyptians defined their life on Earth and the afterlife.
Students will know how to reflect for deeper meaning.
Students will be able to reflect, define, inquire and listen in a group setting.
Students will be able to write reflectively.
Stage Two (Assessment)
Students will create a tomb with objects and pictures of what they would be needing in the afterlife, if we were still following Egyptian funerary, burial and afterlife rituals. Students will write a reflective piece explaining why they would deserve a good afterlife if we still believed in the Egyptian rituals. Writing piece will show how student reflected and defined concepts, answered how their behavior now determines the type of person they are and what items are important to them (items in tomb) and why.
Stage Three
Using artifacts,(plastic Egyptian artifact toys) research the purpose of the artifacts and share them in the group as to the meaning of the item. Then discuss our artifacts and their meanings.
Begin reading the book "The Golden Goblet". Use first half of 3 classes to discuss what the characters are like, the life of the times and their rituals.
Do research on a prince or princess, king or queen of Ancient Egypt. Have each student give a mini lesson to educate us on this person.
Using philosophical inquiry define what good meant for the Egyptians. Define what good means for each of us. Did we learn "good"? Were we born or raised "good" ? Can you turn good? Is good a way of thought or a unconscious behavior?
Students will bring in a shoe box and create a tomb like the Egyptians. It will contain items necessary for their own version of an afterlife.
Students will write a reflective writing piece that will explain the items and their importance, their definition of "good", how they came to that definition and the reason they would deserve a good afterlife.
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Good essential questions.
A thought-- why limit them to a shoe box? Maybe tell them they are museum currators and they need to design an exhibit to show what Pharoahs kept in the their tombs. They can then use shoe box, or a virtual tomb, or a variety of other means.
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