Hieroglyphics

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Students will:

Learn the basic hieroglyphs

Encode:  English to Hieroglyph
Decode:  Hieroglyph to English

Materials needed:

Hieroglyphics                paper
Hieroglyph symbols        crayons
                                    pencils

 
Procedures:

1.  How did the Ancient Egyptians communicate in writing?
2.  Discuss- Different languages use different forms of written communication.  Compare:

English
Hebrew
Chinese
Russian…

3. Hieroglyphs

    Read about hieroglyphs
    Review Hieroglyph Alphabet/Symbols

4. Encode- Translate from English to Hieroglyphs (I like to write my name in hieroglyphics to share.)
5. Decode-

    Students are given a message that are written in hieroglyphs
    Decode this message from hieroglyph to English

Bibliography:

Der Manuelian, Peter. Hieroglyphs from A to Z. Scholastic, New York. 1991
Dowswell, Paul.  The Egyptian Echo.  Usborne Publishing, England.  1996
Giblin, James Cross.  Riddle of the Rosetta Stone: Key to Ancient Egypt.  Harper Collins, New York.  1990.
Hart, George, ed.  Ancient Egypt.  The Nature Company Discoveries Library and Time-Life Books. 1995

Evaluation/Assessment:

1. Effort
2. Participation
3. Decoding

     Accuracy of Decoding
     Presentation

 Extensions:

Learn more about hieroglyphs
How do archeologists learn from the hieroglyphics that they uncover.
Take a look at famous hieroglyphics (Rosetta stone…)
 

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Created: June 24, 1998
Updated: October 17, 2000  

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