Egypt Project Links
For your Egypt Project you will perform solid 6th grade research, and you will add life to your discoveries by using your imagination to recreate the hum and buzz of life on the Nile river thousands of years ago.
To get you started down your path of discovery please take time to explore these links for information about life in ancient Egypt.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/explore-ancient-egypt.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/egypt/
http://www.mrmoore.net/UNIT%203%20EGYPT/UNIT%203%20Egypt.htm
http://www.ducksters.com/history/ancient_egypt.php
http://www.crystalinks.com/egyptart.html
http://carlos.emory.edu/ODYSSEY/EGYPT/homepg.html
You can get more information about cities, temples and tourist sites, people, and souvenirs by clicking on the word that best describes your project interest.
To get you started down your path of discovery please take time to explore these links for information about life in ancient Egypt.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/explore-ancient-egypt.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/egypt/
http://www.mrmoore.net/UNIT%203%20EGYPT/UNIT%203%20Egypt.htm
http://www.ducksters.com/history/ancient_egypt.php
http://www.crystalinks.com/egyptart.html
http://carlos.emory.edu/ODYSSEY/EGYPT/homepg.html
You can get more information about cities, temples and tourist sites, people, and souvenirs by clicking on the word that best describes your project interest.
Sample Travel Blogs
I recommend reading through a few travel blog posts to get the feel for how travel writing is a bit different than normal, everyday reporting. If you read travel blogs, I think you will find that they are enjoyable because they are personal. Travel bloggers write about their experience, good or bad. Good bloggers also do more than simply describe what a place looks like. The best bloggers let you know what a place feels like. They do that by using their words to paint a picture. The words they use, you will notice, are words that play to the senses.
The following is a quote from one of the travel blogs listed below.
The following is a quote from one of the travel blogs listed below.
The other one was a afternoon full of adventure in the midst of the madness of the Khan el Khalili, one of the original eastern markets. Each step I took and every time I turned my head, my eyes crossed with gold, silver, wood, ivory, copper, furs, clothes, spice … A table of colors, smells and touches a square bustling and highly architectural. The feeling I had was that I was in a Museum. This was my journey through the Egyptian religious and historical lightness I recalled as the wind gently touched my skin in this peaceful afternoon…