EgyptologyBy Emily Sands
'Egyptology' is an informative in the form of a journal text focusing on the history of Egypt and the Egyptians. The illistrations, text and interactive segments are all arranged neatly integrated onto the pages. The book is broken up into journal entries with segments of information sketches and other features. While learning about ancient Egypt the students are developing ideas about the structure of a journal and what it looks like and is meant to contain.It is important for students to explore and study texts of formats other than narritives, as they will need to be familiar with them for future acedemic writing and critical reading.
This looks like a really interesting book Matt. I think that it would be a great teacher resource to use to initially engage students with a SOSE unit based on Egyptians. It would allow the students to engage with the topic in a unique way by reading a journal, which describes the history, rather than simply referring to facts on the internet or in a book.
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