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Egyptian symbols and figures: Scroll painting

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A lesson plan for Grades K–2 English Language Arts, Visual Arts Education, and Social Studies

Provider: National Endowment for the Humanities

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This lesson plan from EDSITEment introduces students to the writing, art, and religious beliefs of ancient Egypt through hieroglyphs, one of the oldest writing systems in the world, and through tomb paintings. The lesson plan is in two parts. In this second lesson, students identify and represent in their own drawings figures from the Book of the Dead, a funereal text written on papyrus and carved on the walls of tombs to help guide the deceased through the afterlife. In the first lesson, “Egyptian Symbols and Figures: Hieroglyphs,” the class creates a pictorial alphabet of its own and then learns and uses the symbols of the Egyptian hieroglyphic alphabet.

North Carolina Curriculum Alignment

Visual Arts Education (2001)

Grade 1

  • Goal 4: The learner will choose and evaluate a range of subject matter and ideas to communicate intended meaning in artworks.
    • Objective 4.01: Recognize that an artist's work has certain characteristics that distinguish it from that of others.
    • Objective 4.02: Create, discuss and/or write simple stories about one's own artwork.
    • Objective 4.04: Use imagination to interpret environments other than one's own
  • Goal 5: The learner will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.
    • Objective 5.01: Recognize that art from other times and cultures does not look the same.
    • Objective 5.02: Recognize that artwork from many cultures can be made of material that the student has experienced (wood, stone, paint, etc.)

Grade 2

  • Goal 5: The learner will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.
    • Objective 5.01: Identify main purpose for an individual artwork.
    • Objective 5.02: Identify selected characteristics of art from a particular culture.
    • Objective 5.04: Become aware of the ideas of time and history (what came before and after).
    • Objective 5.05: Begin to realize that there have been diverse cultures in the world and each culture has produced art.

Kindergarten

  • Goal 4: The learner will choose and evaluate a range of subject matter and ideas to communicate intended meaning in artworks.
    • Objective 4.01: Create art depicting self, family, friends, pets, home, school and community.
    • Objective 4.02: Demonstrate the use of life surroundings and personal experiences to express ideas and feelings.
    • Objective 4.04: Find inspiration in the work of other artists from many cultures.
  • Goal 5: The learner will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.
    • Objective 5.01: Recognize that people in many times and places have made art.
    • Objective 5.02: Recognize that art is created to fulfill personal and/or societal needs or purposes.
    • Objective 5.05: Recognize that human beings create art to tell a story about their ideas and lives without words.

Social Studies (2003)

Grade 1

  • Goal 4: The learner will explain different celebrated holidays and special days in communities.
    • Objective 4.01: Recognize and describe religious and secular symbols/celebrations associated with special days of diverse cultures.
    • Objective 4.02: Explore and cite reasons for observing special days that recognize celebrated individuals of diverse cultures.

Grade 2

  • Goal 3: The learner will analyze how individuals, families, and communities are alike and different.
    • Objective 3.05: Identify historical figures and events associated with various cultural traditions and holidays celebrated around the world.
    • Objective 3.06: Identify individuals of diverse cultures and describe on their contributions to society.

Kindergarten

  • Goal 4: The learner will explain celebrated holidays and special days in communities.
    • Objective 4.01: Explore how families express their cultures through celebrations, rituals, and traditions.
    • Objective 4.02: Identify religious and secular symbols associated with famous people, holidays, and specials days of diverse cultures.

English Language Arts (2004)

Grade 1

  • Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
    • Objective 4.06: Compose a variety of products (e.g., stories, journal entries, letters, response logs, simple poems, oral retellings).

Grade 2

  • Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
    • Objective 4.08: Write structured, informative presentations and narratives when given help with organization.

Kindergarten

  • Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
    • Objective 4.06: Write and/or participate in writing behaviors by using authors' models of language.