Do all of the following:
1 - Study a map of Egypt and work on memorizing the countries that surround it and be able to find it on a world map.
2 - Print and study a blank map of Egypt for your commonplace book and mark the following things:
(This map is your ticket into class, so make sure you have it and it's filled out.)
- major bodies of water and rivers
- 5 major cities
- 3 crops and where they are grown
- major mountain ranges and other physical features (deserts, plains, peninsulas, etc)
- LDS temple(s)
- Geography from the Ancient World. (You'll probably have to look these up online.) Make sure to include:
- Nile River
- Nile Delta
- Upper Egypt
- Lower Egypt
- Cheops Great Pyramid
- Nubia
- Canaan
- Valley of the Kings
- Mediterranean Sea
- Red Sea
- Learn an Egyptian dance that you can teach the class. (Tell Sis. Cloward what you're teaching ahead of time and what music you're using so I can have it ready.)
- Come to class and teach us how to say your name, count to ten, say hello, good bye and a few other phrases in Egyptian.
- Bring a children's picture book representing Egypt to class and read it to us.
- Bring food from Egypt for the whole class. (Tell Sis. Cloward what you're bringing ahead of time. This will be included as part of lunch.)
- Look up and come ready to present on the animals of Egypt. What are they used for and why?
- Look up and come ready to present on the climate of Egypt. We usually think of Egypt being a desert, is it all a desert? Bring pictures to back up you information.
- Think of something creative you can teach us about Egypt.
