Grade 9 Lesson Plans for Ancient Egypt?

Question

Any teachers out there have any ideas? I'm having a planning block...

Answer 1

I'm a Teacher and I've studied Egyptian History in college, and thats a great idea.....but please do not perpetuate the myth that the Ancient Egyptians were white European people. Thats a sad myth created by the 20th century media.

Its a proven fact that DNA tests were done on ancient Egyptian mummies which proved that their melanan skin color was that of dark skinned Africans... If you look at the sculpture of Queen Nefertiti, she was clearly a black woman (although probably of multi-racial heriatge similar to many blacks of today), as was her husband Ahkenaten--and there is a sculpture of his mother, Queen Tiye, that shows a woman who is a dark skinned African woman. (they were both of the very sucessful 18th Dynasty.)

White Americans discovered the mummies if the ancient Egpytains in the early 1900's--and during that time blacks in America and of Africa were deemed sub-human by whites. They considered black people to have never contributed ANYTHING to civilzation. So, to attribute the creation of the Pyramids and the discovery of modern math to blacks would have been taboo.

Ancient Egyptian sculptures reveal people who were as dark as Sidney Poiter, to as light as Halle Berry. The first Dynasties were mostly darker skinned people, but the Egyptains began to mix with nearby Asians and Middle Easterners with whom they traded resources with. It was no different that what you see with African-Americans today. Because of mixing during slavery, there are blacks as light as Beyonce and Lisa Bonet, to as dark as Oprah and Whoopi Goldberg.

The people who live in Egpyt today are NOT true Egyptians BUT ARE ARABS WHO INVADED EGYPT IN THE 6th Century AD.
THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS WERE AFRICAN.

Have fun with your lesson.

Peace

Answer 2

I'm not a teacher, but I studied Egypt. After studying Egypt, make a project for the kids to do. Let them pick something, like jobs that the Egyptians did or what they ate and what they farmed. Or tourism to the country today and such. Go wild! That's what my class did when we studied. I had to learn about storytelling. The myths, urban legends, and I wrote a paper on it. Some people had herbologists and scribers. Others learned about the great Shpinx and the pyramids. Why some fell and why some are still standing. They hyrogliphics and cuniform. The math and technology that they had. The simple tools that they used and how that helped them to build such magestic things.

P. S. Have A Great School Year!