GRADE 6: 1. Continue to work on research paper. 2. Read Chapter 6 in handout. 3. Test on Friday, February 3 on the dates and names of the Egyptian dynasties, and dates of special ones named below and each of their major achievement. Copy these into your notebooks:
1. Early Dynastic Period - c. 3100 BCE-2686 BCE
a. Narmer c. 3100 BCE - pharaoh who united Upper and Lower Egypt
2. Old Kingdom - 2682 BCE-2181 BCE
3. First Intermediate Period - c. 2181 BCE-2055 BCE
4. Middle Kingdom - 2055 BCE-1650 BCE
5. Second Intermediate Period - c. 1674 BCE-1549 BCE
Best known for the invasion of Egypt by the Hyksos from the region of Syria, Canaan, and Anatolia. They ruled as pharaohs from c. 1674-1549 BCE.
6. New Kingdom (also known as the Egyptian Empire) - c. 1550 BCE-c. 1069 BCE, including a. Hatshepsut 1479-1458 BCE
b.Thutmose III 1479-1425 BCE
c. Akhenaten 1353-1336 BCE
d. Tutankhamen 1333-1323 BCE
e. 11 pharaohs named Ramesses including Rameses II, The Great 1279-1213 BCE
7. Third Intermediate Period - 1070 BCE-664 BCE
including the 25th Dynasty, the Nubian Dynasty
8. Late Period - 664 BCE-323 BCE
The last of the native Egyptian pharaohs. It ended in 323 BCE with the conquest of Egypt by Alexander the Great from Macedonia (Greece).
9. Graeco-Roman Period - 332 BCE- 641 CE
a. the Ptolemaic Dynasty, 275 years, 305 BCE to 30 BCE
b. Cleopatra VII, the last pharaoh, 51 BCE to 30 BCE
c. Roman and Byzantine Egypt 30 BCE to 641 CE (AD)
GRADE 12: 1. Chapter 6 Test on Wednesday, Feb 1 2. Chapter 7 Quiz on Friday, Feb 3.
GRADE 9: Your research papers: Begin preliminary research on your topic.
1. Note cards are required.
2. Visit the library to select your bibliography sources and take notes.
3. You are required to have a minimum of three (3) book sources and a minimum of three (3) approved internet sources. (Approved by Mrs. Walsh.)
4. Thesis statement due Friday, February 3.
5. Outline due Monday, February 6.
6. The paper is required to be 5-6 pages in length. excluding title page, outline, bibliography page.
7. First draft is due Wednesday, February 22.
8. Final draft due Friday, March 2.
