His Majesty, Queen Hatshepsut

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His Majesty, Queen Hatshepsut

• by Dorothy Sharp Carter
• illustrated by
• Dave Blanchette

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What do you know?

• What do you know about Egypt and the countrys
  ancient rulers?
• Read italicized text on page 192 write at least
  one question

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Concepts

• Information gathered from artifacts and fossils
  can help to recreate the daily life of an ancient
  Egyptian pharaoh.
• A fictional story can provide factual information
  about an ancient civilization, such as its
  geography, religion, politics, economy,
  architecture, food, and clothing.

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Word Knowledge

• vein vane vain waste waist
  council
  counsel
• Homophones
• Dont waste the material you cut off the dress to
  make the waist smaller.

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Word Knowledge

• ruler write awry overwrought
  wreckage patronage
• r/ wr spelling for /r/ sound
• The ruler asked the playwright to write a play.

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Word Knowledge

• superiority possibility
  ambiguity conformity
• Suffix -ity
• Since the attendant displayed no conformity, the
  queen quietly had her removed from her staff.

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Genre

• Take 1-2 minutes to look through the text and see
  if you have an idea of the genre of this story
• Turn and talk (be prepared to share)
• HISTORICAL FICTION

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Vocabulary

• unabashed - bold not embarrassed or ashamed
• amphitheater an area with flat ground
  surrounded by hills
• treats to negotiate to try to reach a
  settlement
• spectacles something unusual put on display as
  a curiosity
• myriad a large number
• inundation a deluge a flood
• condescending acting as if one is coming down
  to the level of a person thought of as inferior

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Vocabulary

• patronage the attitude that one is granting a
  favor
• disbursements money spent
• garnet a deep red gem
• henna a reddish-orange dye
• lotuses a kind of water lily that grows in
  Egypt and Asia
• lave to wash to bathe
• indispensable necessary essen

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Vocabulary

• courtier a person in attendance at a royal
  court
• obelisks a tall stone monument that is narrower
  at the top
• unique having no equal one of a kind
• entrails the organs inside the body
• anointing to make sacred in a ceremony the act
  of putting oil or ointment on something
• scribe a clerk with official status
• noncommittal having no point of view giving no
  opinion

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Vocabulary

• augmented to add to to increase to enlarge
• chamber - room
• fetters a chain binding the ankles
• queue a line
• frankincense a substance with an odor burned as
  incense or used as perfume
• unguents an ointment or salve, as a lotion

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Vocabulary

• astuteness - cleverness
• lapis lazuli a deep blue, semiprecious gemstone
• kohl a dark powder, used as eyeliner or eye
  shadow
• ibis a large wading bird with a long bill that
  curves downward
• ablutions cleansings
• ewers a pitcher or jug

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Historical Fiction

• Queen Hatshepsut, pharaoh of Egypt about 1503
  B.C., was an ambitious ruler who desired power to
  work for her countries good.
• This is a fictional account of this historical
  character that gives a s peak into the
  civilization of ancient Egypt.

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List of Characters

• page 213

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Hatshepsut in Devotional Attitude
Female King
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Hatshepsut wearing the White Crown
Hatshepsut as King
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Capstone of Hatshepsut(from obelisk top)
Obelisk of Queen Hatshepsut Karnak, Egypt
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Tuthmosis I's obelisk at Karnak, with that of
Hatshepsut behind
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Hatshepsuts expeditions to Punt
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The Army of Hatshepsut
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Senmut
Senmut seated with Nefrure
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Scene from a wall of Hatsheptsuts temple
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Hatshepsut The Queen Who Became King (5 min 22
sec)
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Tuthmosis III's mummy was rewrapped following
damage by tomb robbers, then reburied in Deir
el-Bahari. 
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Purpose

• As you read the story . . .
• Think about how this story compares to other
  ancient civilizations weve read about.