Janine Rinaldi and Andrea Lurski ELE 301 - Dr. Conte Edgewood Elementary School Ms.

Pezza: 3rd Grade Mummy Read Aloud: Lesson One 1. Lesson Essential Question: By using the new knowledge gained from the Read Aloud, why did the Ancient Egyptians mummify the dead? 2. Standards: New Jersey Standards: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3.1 Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers. Pennsylvania Standards: R3.A.2.4.1 Identify and/or explain stated or implied main ideas and relevant supporting details from text. Note: Items may target specific paragraphs. Items might ask about information in the text that is most important or helpful for understanding a particular fact or idea. Items may require recalling key information stated in text.

3. A. Learning Objectives and Assessments: Learning Objectives The students will be able to explain the main ideas from the book Mummies Made in Egypt. Assessments The students will think, pair, and share their answers to the mummy questions asked initially at the beginning of the lesson. The students will write one new thing they learned today during this Read Aloud on their Exit Slip. 4. Materials: -Mummies Made in Egypt written by Aliki -List of mummy questions and answers

5. Pre-lesson assignments and/or prior knowledge: Students should have some prior knowledge of what a mummy is and what a mummy looks like. Hopefully, the students will have some prior knowledge that the Ancient Egyptians mummified the dead. A major misconception the children might have about mummies is that they were monsters and were made to scare people. 6. Lesson Beginning: As a motivational beginning, the teacher will ask the students to write down the first thing that comes to their mind when the teacher says Ancient Egypt. After the students write down their responses, the teacher will allow a few students to share what they recorded. After listening to what the students wrote, the teacher will inform the children that they will be reading a book about mummies and the

process of mummification, or the process of making a mummy. However, before the teacher reads the book to the class, the teacher will engage the students in a quick activity that will measure the students prior knowledge of the subject. In this activity, the students will stand up and form two lines facing each other. The teacher will read some true or false statements about mummies. If the students think the statement is true, they will take one step forward. If they think the statement is false, the students will not move. After this activity is completed, the students will return to their seats. The teacher will inform the students that the answers to these questions will be answered in the book Mummies Made in Egypt. Then, the teacher will begin reading Mummies Made in Egypt, written by Aliki.

7. Instructional Plan: Following the motivational beginning, the teacher will read the book Mummies Made in Egypt. After the teacher reads the book to the class, the teacher will tell the students that they will think, pair, and share. The teacher will re-read the mummy statements that were used for the motivational activity. After each statement, the students will think, pair, and share, deciding if the statements are actually true or false, now that they have read Mummies Made in Egypt. The teacher will have some students share their answers, and the teacher will explain why each statement is either true or false. o Differentiation: The motivational activity will be appealing to the kinesthetic learners since they will be able to get out of their seats and move their bodies. The Read Aloud will be appealing to the auditory learners. The think, pair, share activity will be appealing to the interpersonal learners since they will able to share with their partner their thoughts at the end of the Read Aloud. If during the think, pair, share activity the pair is finished discussing the current statement, they will be asked to discuss the next statement on the list.

True or False Questions: The Ancient Egyptians believed that after they died, a new life began. Mummies were made to scare the living people. Mummification, or the process of making a mummy, is an easy process. The houses the Ancient Egyptians lived in when they were alive were more important to the Ancient Egyptians than the tombs they were buried in when they died. Mummies are buried with treasure. The tombs mummies are buried in are called gravesites. If you were mummified, what treasures would you like to be buried with?

Classroom Management: During the line activity at the beginning of the lesson, the teacher will inform the students that this activity is a silent activity, so there should be no talking. During the think, pair, share activity, the students will pair up with the person sitting to the left of him or her. To get the students attention, the teacher will do the clapping technique where the teacher will clap a specific pattern, and the students will mimic that same clap. Transitions:

To transition into the line activity, the teacher will call each table up to the front of the classroom, telling the students where to stand. To dismiss the students from the line back to their seats, the teacher will dismiss each line, one at a time. To being the think, pair, share activity, the students will be told to partner up with the student sitting to his or her left.

8. Closure: To close this lesson, Exit Tickets will be used where each student will write one new thing he or she learned in this Read Aloud.

Questions and Answers to the Line Activity 1) Egyptians believed that after they died, a new life began. True: The Egyptians believed that after they died, a new life began. They would live in their tombs as they lived on earth. They would also travel to another world to live with gods and goddesses of the dead (page 1). 2) The purpose of making mummies, or mummification, was to scare people. False: Egyptians believed everyone had a ba, or soul, and a ka, an invisible twin of the person. They believed that when a person died, his ba and ka were released from his body and lived on in the tomb. The ba would keep in contact with the living family and friends of the dead. The ka traveled back and forth from the body to the other world. In order for a person to live forever, the ba and ka had to be able to recognize the body, or they could not return to it. This is why the body had to be preserved, or mummified (page 2). 3) Mummification, or the process of making a mummy, is an easy process. False: Mummification was a long, complicated, and expensive process (page 6). 4) The houses the Ancient Egyptians lived in when they were alive were more important to the Ancient Egyptians than the tombs they were buried in when they died. False: Tombs were more important than houses to Egyptians. People had them built during their lifetime (page 20). 5) Mummies were buried with treasure. True: Jewelry, furniture, and carved statues of the dead person were buried with the mummy (page 16).

6) The tombs mummies are buried in are called gravesites.

False: For centuries, the dead were usually buried in tombs called mastabas that were made of brick and stone. However, since pharaohs took more and more with them into the tomb, the tombs became bigger, stronger, and more elaborate. Therefore, the royal Ancient Egyptians were buried in pyramids rather than mastabas (pages 20-21).