{"id":28,"date":"2017-11-13T20:34:09","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T20:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artedco.org\/lesson04\/?page_id=28"},"modified":"2018-11-18T16:36:46","modified_gmt":"2018-11-18T16:36:46","slug":"story","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/artedco.org\/lesson04\/story\/","title":{"rendered":"Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"color: #6190c5;\">Ancient Egyptian Art and Culture: \u00a0Story Part 1 &#8211; Grades K-3<\/span><\/h1>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-28-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/artedco.org\/lesson04\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/EgypArtCultStoryPt1K3.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/artedco.org\/lesson04\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/EgypArtCultStoryPt1K3.mp3\">http:\/\/artedco.org\/lesson04\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/EgypArtCultStoryPt1K3.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<div class=\"scroll-box\">\n<p>[one_half]<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"align none size-full wp-image-538\" src=\"http:\/\/artedco.org\/lesson01\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/ArrowLeftUpSmall.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"59\" height=\"41\" \/><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Click here to play\u00a0or pause the audio. <\/span><\/strong>[\/one_half]<\/p>\n<p>[one_half_last]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-583\" src=\"http:\/\/artedco.org\/lesson01\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/ArrowRightUpSmall2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"51\" height=\"33\" \/>Use this scrollbar to read along,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">viewing the entire story and visuals.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[\/one_half_last]<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Docent Instructions: \u00a0The word Pause is the suggested point in which to pause the story and to ask your students to share ideas with the students next to them about what they learned in the previous part of the story for\u00a0approximately\u00a01 to 3 minutes. \u00a0This allows for cooperative learning to occur.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ancient Egyptian Art and Culture: \u00a0Story Part 1 &#8211; Grades K-3<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Copyright Denise T. Federico 6\/03\/05<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cA strange looking boat is floating down a very blue river. Who could be on this boat? Wait! What\u2019s that popping up from the river? Looks like a kind of crocodile. It\u2019s wearing jewels. And it\u2019s talking! And now the river looks green. This must be magic!\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_163\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-163\" style=\"width: 259px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-163\" src=\"http:\/\/artedco.org\/lesson04\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/TV15_RiverCruise.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-163\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">River Cruise on the Nile River<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWelcome to the Nile River Rider. You\u2019re with me, Sobek, the crocodile god. And we\u2019re in Africa, not in America. Put on your Nile River Goggles and take your favorite seat on the boat. You\u2019re going to see what goes on in <strong>Ancient<\/strong> Egypt.\u201d[one_half]<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_147\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-147\" style=\"width: 190px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-147\" src=\"http:\/\/artedco.org\/lesson04\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/TV01_CrocodileGod.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"265\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-147\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sobek on the Nile River<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>[\/one_half] [one_half_last]<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_157\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-157\" style=\"width: 139px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-157\" src=\"http:\/\/artedco.org\/lesson04\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/TV09_CrocGodHeiroglyphSobek.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"139\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artedco.org\/lesson04\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/TV09_CrocGodHeiroglyphSobek.jpeg 139w, https:\/\/artedco.org\/lesson04\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/TV09_CrocGodHeiroglyphSobek-130x300.jpeg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 139px) 100vw, 139px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-157\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sobek Drawn with Hieroglyphics on Papyrus Paper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>[\/one_half_last]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour Nile River Goggles will let you see the people here, just the way they were thousands of years ago. That\u2019s so long ago, even before your great, great, great, great grandparents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, as your ears are telling you, I\u2019m no ordinary crocodile. The <strong>Ancient<\/strong> Egyptians love me as a great god. But they are also afraid of me with my big, sharp teeth. So they give me all these jewels to wear to make sure I\u2019ll be nice to them.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_154\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-154\" style=\"width: 259px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-154\" src=\"http:\/\/artedco.org\/lesson04\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/TV06_River.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-154\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Nile River in Egypt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAnd I can be so nice. I watch over this blue and green Nile River. The people drink it, they take baths in it, and they use it to water their crops, which helps their food grow better. The Nile River is everything to them; this is why it is called their \u201cLife Source.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd, you are riding on our best road. Boats and rafts on the Nile River carry our big stones to build huge <strong>statues<\/strong>. Hey, look out! Here comes a stone right now, floating down the river. Go tell King Tut<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_167\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-167\" style=\"width: 194px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-167\" src=\"http:\/\/artedco.org\/lesson04\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/TV19_KingTut.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"259\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-167\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">King Tut<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>and his people, because they\u2019re on the Nile River Rider with you. Amazing, isn\u2019t it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>(Pause here.)\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHeads up and watch out, there\u2019s another big stone traveling down the Nile causing waves. That one is going to make another <strong>Pyramid<\/strong>.\u00a0 <strong>Pyramids<\/strong> are mostly huge triangular tombs or resting places. They are built for some of the rulers, called <strong>Pharaohs<\/strong>. <strong>Pharaohs<\/strong> are like Kings and gods together and they wanted a special resting place until they go on to the \u201cAfter Life.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_161\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-161\" style=\"width: 275px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-161\" src=\"http:\/\/artedco.org\/lesson04\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/TV13_Pyramid.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-161\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Step Pyramid<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Now look up at that <strong>Pyramid<\/strong> reaching into the sky on your right hand side? No, not a gigantic triangle, look again.\u00a0This one is called the <strong>Step Pyramid\u00a0<\/strong>and for sure it looks like six, very large steps to the top. Some people think it looks like a wedding cake with six layers. It was the first of the stone <b>pyramids<\/b> built by a man named Imhotep, a great builder. He came up with the idea for these gigantic stone <strong>pyramids<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_148\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-148\" style=\"width: 270px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-148\" src=\"http:\/\/artedco.org\/lesson04\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/TV01_Pyramids.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"186\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-148\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Great Pyramid at Giza Complex<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>They were a present to the <strong>Pharaoh<\/strong>. When the <strong>Pharaoh<\/strong> died he wanted another special house built for him and this was it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now if you press the vision button on your goggles just like some kind of powerful ranger, you can peek into the <strong>Pyramid<\/strong>. Inside the pictures on the walls<\/p>\n<p>are in blue and green. No surprise to you Nile River Riders! You know, the <strong>Ancient <\/strong>Egyptians love those colors; it reminds them of the Nile River.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>(Pause here.)\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid I hear you thinking that in the pictures all the people look like they are in a line? You are so smart if you did!\u00a0 Their heads are all painted with a side<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_164\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-164\" style=\"width: 164px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-164\" src=\"http:\/\/artedco.org\/lesson04\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/TV16_AtumHeiroglyph.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"164\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artedco.org\/lesson04\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/TV16_AtumHeiroglyph.jpeg 164w, https:\/\/artedco.org\/lesson04\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/TV16_AtumHeiroglyph-154x300.jpeg 154w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 164px) 100vw, 164px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-164\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ancient Egyptian Drawn in Profile<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>view. You don\u2019t see even one face staring back at you with both eyes. This side view is called a <strong>profile<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Their feet are to the side, also.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut isn\u2019t it strange that their bodies from their necks to their waists are all facing front, not to the side like the rest of their body!\u00a0 They look like they are saying:\u00a0 \u2018Hey, look at me! Here I am! Notice Me!\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, here is the secret about that look and what the <strong>Ancient <\/strong>Egyptians believe. The <strong>Ancient<\/strong> Egyptians draw people with their shoulders and chests forward and their faces and feet to the left side so that after their on Earth life was over they could go into the \u201cAfter Life.\u201d Then their gods would see them. And also, they could reach all their family\u2014even their great, great, grandparents of their long ago times\u2014their <strong>ancestors<\/strong>.\u201d[one_half]<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_150\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-150\" style=\"width: 281px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-150\" src=\"http:\/\/artedco.org\/lesson04\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/TV02_Heiroglyphs.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"281\" height=\"179\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-150\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ancient Egyptians Drawn in Profile<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>[\/one_half] [one_half_last]<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_168\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-168\" style=\"width: 259px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-168\" src=\"https:\/\/artedco.org\/lesson04\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/TV20_Heiroglyph.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-168\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pharaoh Sitting with His Attendants<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>[\/one_half_last]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>(Pause here.)\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHeads up! Another big stone is coming. I wonder if it will be part of another huge <strong>statue<\/strong> like that one over there. That one is called the Great <b>Sphinx<\/b> and it&#8217;s supposed to be a head of the powerful Pharaoh and the body of a lion. What do you think it looks like, a person or an animal?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>(Pause here.)\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>[one_third]<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_160\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-160\" style=\"width: 275px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-160\" src=\"http:\/\/artedco.org\/lesson04\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/TV12_Sphynx.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-160\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sphinx with Pyramid in the Background<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>[\/one_third] [one_third]<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_153\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-153\" style=\"width: 259px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-153\" src=\"http:\/\/artedco.org\/lesson04\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/TV05_Sphynx.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-153\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sphinx<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>[\/one_third] [one_third_last]<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_159\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-159\" style=\"width: 253px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-159\" src=\"http:\/\/artedco.org\/lesson04\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/TV11_SphynxPyramid.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"253\" height=\"199\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-159\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sphinx with Pyramid in the Background<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>[\/one_third_last]<\/p>\n<p>I hope you enjoyed your trip on the Nile River Rider so far! We\u2019ll continue our adventurous trip to <b>Ancient <\/b>Egypt another time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#top\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Click here to jump to the top of the page.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ancient Egyptian Art and Culture: \u00a0Story Part 1 &#8211; Grades K-3 [one_half]Click here to play\u00a0or pause the audio. [\/one_half] [one_half_last] Use this scrollbar to read along, viewing the entire story and visuals. 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