Getting StartedTake out your assignment book and copy the following homework:Due Wednesday, January 27Best of the BestComplete Short Response.Give feedback, grade and justification for grade, on your group members responses.Take out your Social Studies notebook and write the following in your Table of Continents: 1/25 Religion in Ancient Egypt 69-70Students will explain the religious beliefs of the Ancient Egyptians by closely reading text and comparing and contrasting religion and burial practices of the poor and rich.Success CriteriaI can closely read a primary source document.I can create a Venn Diagram comparing and contrasting religion and burial practices of the rich & poor.

Vocabularysupernatural - relating to powers and abilities beyond this worldsarcophagus - a decorated coffin, usually of stone

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Religion in Ancient EgyptReligion was very important to Ancient Egyptians. The Egyptians believed in many gods and goddesses. Amon-Ra was the sun god and worshipped throughout the kingdom. Osiris was the god of the underworld. Many gods and goddesses were pictured as part human and part animal.The Egyptians believed that when a person died, they entered the afterlife. In the afterlife they would need many things. They gathered all of these things in their tombs.

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Religion in Ancient EgyptClose Reading, A Matter of Life and DeathNumber paragraphsRead A Matter of Life and Death Annotate A Matter of Life and DeathCompare and contrast Ancient Egyptian religion and burial practices of the rich & poor.

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Success CriteriaI can closely read a primary source document.I can create a Venn Diagram comparing and contrasting religion and burial practices of the rich & poor.