Focus: Corroborating across sources and collecting evidence to support claims that address the second essential question

Sources Used:
Source D: Egypt’s Economy (Excerpt from the textbook The World: Volume 1, p. 47)
Source E: Life in Ancient Egypt (textbook excerpt)
All texts previously read (Sources A-C)

Activities:
1. Closely read Egypt’s Economy and Life in Ancient Egypt texts with multiple purposes (i.e. asking and answering our own questions, continuing to track essential question #1), focusing on identifying corroborating details to support a claim about what life was like for ordinary people in ancient Egypt (essential question #2). Discuss why it is important to notice details that are corroborated by multiple sources.
2. Review the two texts to collect evidence using Claims-Evidence-Source chart to support claims about life in ancient Egypt.
3. Review texts from previous lessons to add to Claim-Evidence-Source chart.

Classroom Products:
• Claims-Evidence-Source Chart
• Sources Historians Use chart