Unit reflection: Ancient Egypt Luka Luketic
5/4/2011
1: This unit was a unit filled with research and creative thinking. We had two mini projects where we could show our creativity by drawing the Path of the river Nile and its surroundings and by creating our own Egyptian artwork. Both of these projects showed our creativity but also required research, without it we couldn’t have known what the path of the Nile looks like or how the Egyptian artist painted. The last project we did was all about inquiring into one specific part of the ancient Egyptian culture, you had to be collaborative because you had to understand that other people were going to do the same topic as you, therefore you had to talk to them and make sure that your information doesn’t overlap. Throughout the unit as a whole the one learner profile that would suite it the best would be inquirer. We inquired in every part of the unit, at the beginning when we took notes, we inquired, we did the same when we drew the map and we inquired the most when we thought the class about ancient Egypt,
2: The physical environment of an area can not only affect the way the people farm and build houses; it can also affect the way the whole civilization develops. A civilization in the rain forest can develop constantly because there is less threat of an invasion, but on the other hand they can’t trade as much as other civilizations can. I believe that ancient Egypt had a perfect balance, they were protected by the Sahara from one side and by the Nile from the other, and mountain ranges also offered protection for this civilization. A civilization like Egypt can strive, not only because of the protection but because of the fact that a river likes the Nile can protect the people and allow trade routes, it also helps the crops grow. But some physical environments like desserts do not help the civilization, desserts are dry and provide nothing but protection and this happens in only some cases like the Egyptian civilization.
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