|Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute||Home| Linda Maynard Powell
To remedy this problem of superficial coverage of early world
cultures, I am planning to identify a natural area of emphasis
within each unit. One way to draw students into these cultures
is to make them active participants in, rather than passive
recipients of, their own learning. To illustrate this approach,
I have chosen Egypt as my case study because it has become clear
to me over the past five years that any attempt to present the
history of Egypt must place its emphasis on art.1 Through
analysis of Egyptian tomb art, students will find a different
and, I believe, more effective way into Egyptian culture. While
Egypt lends itself to an interdisciplinary blending of history,
practices, and expressions, the real change in this unit is the
methodology and study techniques. Once used for the study of
Egypt, this approach can be applied to other cultures as well.
Because the ancient Egyptian nobility buried so many of their
everyday belongings wit