Ancient Egyptian Childrens Book Requirements

Today you will begin working on a project that will allow you to explore the mysteries of ancient
Egyptians and the amazing contributions that they made to society. You will have time in class to
work on it, though you will also need to spend some time working on it at home. You will be entirely
responsible for completion of this project on your own. Any project turned in late will be receiving a 5point penalty per day that it is late.
Task 1: Storyboard OutlineFill out a storyboard for your Childrens Book based on the information covered in class. The
storyboard needs to have your name and the title (or working title) of your book. The other sections
will each contain an illustration and a short sentence that will reflect what you have learned about
Egypt. You will need to have one page dedicated to the information covered in class. Below is a list of
what needs to be included in your project.

VOCABULARY
GEOGRAPHY
RELIGION
SOCIETY
WRITING/LANGUAGE
DAILY LIFE
PHAROAHS
MUMMIFICATION

You may use your notes, historical books, the internet, videos, or any other source to find your words
or phrases related to Egypt that show your learning. Your project should be neat, appealing, and
colorful.

This will be due on Tuesday the 17th of November.

Task 2: Presenting
On the project due date you will be presenting your completed
Childrens Book to the rest of the class, and it will be collected. Your
presentation will need to be short explanation of your Childrens Book to
the entire class. You will need to discuss 1-2 of the item you feel are the
most interesting from your book.
A rubric for this project is on the back of the page. Dont forget to have
fun and explore more information about the Egyptians.

Childrens Book: Ancient Egyptians

Student Name:

CATEGORY

________________________________________

Section: _______

10

Clarity and
Neatness

Childrens Book is
easy to read and all
elements are so
clearly written,
labeled, or drawn
that another student
could create the
presentation if
necessary.

Childrens Book is
easy to read and
most elements are
clearly written,
labeled, or drawn.
Another person
might be able to
create the
presentation after
asking one or two
questions.

Childrens Book is
hard to read with
rough drawings and
labels. It would be
hard for another
person to create this
presentation without
asking lots of
questions.

Childrens Book is
hard to read and one
cannot tell what goes
where. It would be
impossible for
another person to
create this
presentation without
asking lots of
questions.

Use of Time

Used time well

during each class
period (as shown by
observation by
teacher, and
documentation of
progress in journal)
with no adult
reminders.

Used time well

during most class
periods (as shown by
observation by
teacher, and
documentation of
progress in journal)
with no adult
reminders.

Used time well (as

shown by
observation by
teacher and
documentation of
progress in journal),
but required adult
reminders on one or
more occasions to
do so.

Used time poorly (as

shown by
observation by
teacher and/or
documentation of
progress in journal)
in spite of several
adult reminders to do
so.

Cooperation

Worked
cooperatively with
partner all the time
with no need for
adult intervention.

Worked
cooperatively with
partner most of time
but had a few
problems that the
team resolved
themselves.

Worked
cooperatively with
partner most of the
time, but had one
problem that
required adult
intervention.

Worked
cooperatively with
partners some of the
time, but had several
problems that
required adult
intervention.

Spelling &
Grammar

No spelling or
grammatical
mistakes on a
storyboard with lots
of text.

No spelling or
grammatical
mistakes on a
storyboard with little
text.

One spelling or
Several spelling
grammatical error on and/or grammatical
the storyboard.
errors on the
storyboard.

Content

All content is in the

Almost all content is
students\' own words in the students\' own
and is accurate.
words and is
accurate.

At least half of the

content is in the
students\' own words
and is accurate.

Less than half of the

content is in the
students\' own words
and/or is accurate.

Required
Elements

Childrens Book
included all required
elements as well as
a few additional
elements.

Childrens Book
included all required
elements and one
additional element.

Childrens Book
included all required
elements.

One or more
required elements
were missing from
the Childrens Book.

Storyboard
Outline (X2)

Storyboard contains
all of the elements
required and shows
great creativity and
ideas.

Storyboard contains
all the elements
required.

Storyboard contains Storyboard lacks

most of the elements information and is
required.
not put together well.

Days Late:

TOTAL:

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