The First Cities of India

Spine:

• Story of the World, Volume I (The Ancients)
  
  • The River-Road
    
  • The Mystery of Mohenjo-Daro

Mapwork:
Cameron's

Notice the neatness with which the water is colored. It's actually only colored at all because someone decided to make the river run all the way along the coastline. I said that that wasn't accurate and that the ocean would have to be colored to correct it. I was very pleased to see how neatly that was done. You will notice that Cassia's mapwork is not shown here. That is because her picture was entirely red. Eeek.

Coloring Pages: "An Indus King"

Cameron's:


Cassia's:

Notice her typically amazing use of color.

Favorite Library Books:

1. Once a Mouse... A Fable Cut in Wood by Marcia Brown
   
2. One Grain of Rice: A Mathematical Folktale by Demi
   

The Assyrians

Spine:

• Story of the World, Volume 1 (The Ancients), Chapter 8
  
  • The Assyrians
    
  • Gilgamesh the King

Map Work:


Coloring Page:

Favorite Library Books:

• Gilgamesh the King retold and illustrated by Ludmila Zeman
  
• The Revenge of Ishtar retold and illustrated by Ludmila Zeman
  
• The Last Quest of Gilgamesh retold and illustrated by Ludmila Zeman
  

Hammurabi and the Babylonians

Spine:

• Story of the World, Volume I (The Ancients), Chapter 7
  
  • Hammurabi's Code

Map Work:


Coloring Pages:
Cameron's

Cassia's


Crafts/Activities:
LEGO ziggurat

The Jewish People

Spine:

• Story of the World, Volume I (The Ancients), Chapter 6
  
  • God Speaks to Abraham
    
  • Joseph Goes to Egypt
  
  

Map Work:

The route from Ur to Haran to Canaan and finally to Egypt is shown.

Coloring Pages:
Cameron's:

Cassia's:

The First Writing

Spine:

• Story of the World, Volume I (The Ancients), Chapter 3
  
  • *Hieroglyphs and Cuneiform
  
  

Favorite Library Books:

• Seeker of Knowledge: The Man who Deciphered Egyptian Hieroglyphs by James Rumford
  

Map Work:
Cameron's

Cassia's


Coloring Pages:
Cameron's

The black was an artistic thing. I'm not sure what it "means" but he actually left the room to find a black crayon. He really, really wanted that man to be black as night. He wanted to do his map work in black too but I wouldn't let him because I said that you wouldn't be able to see the map if he did!

Cassia's

Crafts:

• Cameron's name in hieroglyphic letters
  
  
• Cassia's name in cuneiform on clay (plus some happy faces)
  
  
• "Mom" in hieroglyph letters on clay (forgive the faulty autofocus)
  
  
• "Mom" in cuneiform on clay (again, forgive the faulty autofocus)
  
  

Egyptian Gods and Temples

Spine:

• Story of the World, Volume 1 (The Ancients), Chapter 2
  
  • *Gods of Ancient Egypt
  
  

Favorite Library Books:

• Gods and Goddesses in the Daily Life of the Ancient Egyptians by Henrietta McCall
  
• Cry of the Benu Bird: An Egyptian Creation Story by C. Shana Greger
  

Crafts:

Egyptian god dolls

Osiris and Isis


Amun and Horus


Thoth and Khnum


Anubus and Seth

Egyptians Lived on the Nile

Spine:

• Story of the World, Volume 1 (The Ancients), Chapter 2
  
  • *Two Kingdoms Become One
  
  

Map Work:
Cameron's

Cassia's



Coloring Pages:
Cameron's

Cassia's

Nomads & Early Farmers

Spine:

• Story of the World, Volume I (The Ancients), Chapter 1
  
  • *The First Nomads
    
  • *The First Nomads Become Farmers
  
  

Map Work:
Cameron's

Cassia's


Coloring Pages:
Cameron's

Cassia's


Illustration (8/30/07):

"A house in Catal Huyuk."