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100 Things You Should Know About . . .
100 Things You Should Know about Pyramids
Presents one hundred details about pyramids, including different types, why they were built, and who made them.
48 pages, Library Binding
First published January 1, 2008
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John Malam
415 books13 followersJohn Malam is a British historian, archaeologist, and author of numerous children's non-fiction books. He attended the University of Birmingham.
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June 9, 2023
Oooo. I love the format of this one. And I just learned that pyramid is a Greek word for wheat bread! That would have been a fun tidbit for teaching geometry.
March 3, 2010
Who doesn't love all things ancient and mysterious??
This book was very cool and touched on some interesting points that most pyramid books leave out. It uses both illustrations and actual pictures which helps to lighten up the topic. The book has little quizes and 'I Don't Believe It!' sections with additional facts.
Overall, very cool
This book was very cool and touched on some interesting points that most pyramid books leave out. It uses both illustrations and actual pictures which helps to lighten up the topic. The book has little quizes and 'I Don't Believe It!' sections with additional facts.
Overall, very cool
November 4, 2010
If you have a youngster who is interested in pyramids then this is a excellent book for them. Filled with amazing photographs, illustrations, and trivia, young readers will love each page of this resource book. Focusing mainly on the Eqyptian pyramids, readers will learn the history of, the making of, and the decline of the era of pyramids. A great book for any library collection.
July 16, 2011
Picked this up for Blake. I like these sorts of books myself, too, for the amount of information folded away in a most accessible manner.
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June 21, 2017Twin Text Set #4 (Intermediate):
Napoli, D. J. (2011). Lights on the nile. New York: Harper Collins.
Lights on the Nile, written by Donna Jo Napoli, is historical fiction about a young girl, Kepi, living in ancient Egypt during the time of pharaohs and pyramid building. Her father builds pyramids for the current pharaoh, but becomes injured and is required to stay at home. Kepi wants to appeal to the pharaoh about paying workers who were injured on the job, so she travels to the capital city of Egypt to speak with him.
One of the many nonfiction books I would pair with this novel is Pyramids: 100 Things You Should Know. Ancient Egypt is fascinating to read about, but can also bring up questions about pharaohs, gods, goddesses, and pyramids. The book Pyramids is full of facts about pyramids, but also about Egypt. It compares pyramids of Egypt to pyramids of other countries and civilizations as well, but the text structure is predominantly description. The book is full of standard text features, such as a table of contents, headings, bold and italic type, sidebars, captions, maps, diagrams, a glossary, and an index.
With this text set, I would begin reading the fictional text first, either as a read-aloud or part of a literature circle group. After reading a few chapters, I would introduce the Reading and Analyzing Nonfiction (R.A.N.) strategy to the class or group, and they would begin recording things on the graphic organizer that they think they already know about pyramids: where they are located, how they are built, how big they are, and so on. As we read the nonfiction book, students will either confirm what they thought to be true, or move it to the ‘misconceptions’ column. They would also track their new learning and record it on the graphic organizer. Finally, after completing Pyramids, we could discuss what we still want to know and did not learn from this book. Other questions could be researched online or found in other nonfiction text.
Napoli, D. J. (2011). Lights on the nile. New York: Harper Collins.
Lights on the Nile, written by Donna Jo Napoli, is historical fiction about a young girl, Kepi, living in ancient Egypt during the time of pharaohs and pyramid building. Her father builds pyramids for the current pharaoh, but becomes injured and is required to stay at home. Kepi wants to appeal to the pharaoh about paying workers who were injured on the job, so she travels to the capital city of Egypt to speak with him.
One of the many nonfiction books I would pair with this novel is Pyramids: 100 Things You Should Know. Ancient Egypt is fascinating to read about, but can also bring up questions about pharaohs, gods, goddesses, and pyramids. The book Pyramids is full of facts about pyramids, but also about Egypt. It compares pyramids of Egypt to pyramids of other countries and civilizations as well, but the text structure is predominantly description. The book is full of standard text features, such as a table of contents, headings, bold and italic type, sidebars, captions, maps, diagrams, a glossary, and an index.
With this text set, I would begin reading the fictional text first, either as a read-aloud or part of a literature circle group. After reading a few chapters, I would introduce the Reading and Analyzing Nonfiction (R.A.N.) strategy to the class or group, and they would begin recording things on the graphic organizer that they think they already know about pyramids: where they are located, how they are built, how big they are, and so on. As we read the nonfiction book, students will either confirm what they thought to be true, or move it to the ‘misconceptions’ column. They would also track their new learning and record it on the graphic organizer. Finally, after completing Pyramids, we could discuss what we still want to know and did not learn from this book. Other questions could be researched online or found in other nonfiction text.
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