Geography of Egypt

I am happy to say that we made good use of our time on Thursday.  We began by looking at the geography of Africa in general - we noted that Africa was made up of two distinctly different types of geography.  The Northern part of Africa (the Saharan region or Maghreb) is largely desert.  The Central and Southern parts of Africa (sub-Saharan Africa) are made up of rain forests and savannas.  Obviously, these lands are home to very different people.

Then, we narrowed our focus to Egypt and were able to begin to see the impact of the Nile River.  We will talk more about that on Monday.

Assignments for the upcoming week:

Periods 1, 3, 4, and 6 - Current Event (in journals) DUE FRIDAY

Periods 2 and 8 - Cornell Notes - The Mysterious Hieroglyphics (pages 60 to 63) DUE FRIDAY

All Periods - Physical Map of Egypt (TBA)