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An ancient Egyptian museum greets guests at Hopewell
OXFORD >> The sixth graders at Hopewell School are thoroughly modern pre-teens, but given a year of immersion in ancient cultures they are also emerging with a greater appreciation of the past.
On Friday, all six classes of these 11- and 12-year-olds threw an open house for the public to come in and see the results of their industriousness with their "Interactive Egyptian Museum."
Every student was assigned to take some aspect of the ancient culture, and in that connection made something to illustrate how those Middle Eastern people lived and died in the far centuries past.
The culmination of the Egypt study was this event.
By 9:30 a.m. the large group instruction room was filled with guests, students, parents, teachers and displays.
At the front door of the room, large simulated Egyptian mummies greeted everyone who came. Surrounding the exterior wall and in another square in the middle were tables filled with projects exhibiting housing, geography, trinkets, food, masks, burial paraphernalia and pyramids the kids had made.
The students were additionally engaged by the assignment to explore the objects, take notes on them and later write a brief report on one that struck their fancy. As they circulated freely around the room, they appeared simultaneously joyful, proud and curious to see what the other kids had done.
The items on display showed exceptional skill.
Several of the students actually created board games following the ancient Egypt theme.
Ada Meyer, for example, made a game that tested the players' knowledge of the Egyptians in a similar format to the game "Sorry."
Several others went into detail on how the dead were mummified and buried.
Masks were popular, as were explorations of the aspects and importance of the Nile River.
Sixth-grade teacher Jennifer Winand said in organizing the project, there was a lot of duplication among the students' desires for certain topics — like the Nile. Therefore, the teachers had to dole out topics in limited quantities like a raffle to ensure variety.
She also said the study of ancient cultures, particularly in the Middle East, is a year-long theme in the sixth-grade social studies curriculum.
Winand shred the teaching of the theme with the other sixth-grade teachers including John Barcos, Gina Schell, Rosemary Gurino, Aimee Smoker and Denise Hicks.
She said ancient cultures is the continuing curriculum theme for sixth-grade social studies, but this is the first year the topic was takin to the heights and extent of the student-created museum.
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