Be A Scribe! Educators Guide (Ancient Egypt)

An Educator’s Guide designed to accompany the book Be a Scribe! Working for a Better Life in Ancient Egypt (ISBN 979-8-9874124-3-5), published by Callaway Arts & Entertainment. Order the book at www.beascribe.com or purchase a copy wherever books are sold.

Includes activities divided into the following categories:

• discussion questions
• key terms
• field trips
• object based learning
• online research
• hand-on activities
• writing
  along with printable activity sheets.

Nearly four thousand years ago, an ancient Egyptian man named Khety accompanied his son Pepi on a journey up the Nile. They were going to the capital, where Khety planned to enroll Pepi in scribal school. Along the way, Khety described the hardships of all the other jobs that would be left for Pepi if he flunked out. At the same time, he tried to pass onto his son the timeless advice he would need to survive on his own.

Fortunately for us, the ancient Egyptians wrote Khety’s story down in hieroglyphic texts that survive to the present day. Khety’s words show what life was like for ordinary people in ancient Egypt, allowing students to better connect with Egyptian history than would be possible by only studying the major time periods and events. Be a Scribe! provides a view of ancient
Egypt from an ancient perspective, using the Egyptians’ own words to describe their world, their own possessions to give readers a closer understanding of how they lived, and their own artworks to show how things looked through their eyes.