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6th Grade just completed a Unit Project on Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia in which they imagined that they had been hired as a "scribe" to write an article for Mesopotamian People magazine using independent research and academic vocabulary words:  5 Paragraph Essay:  Fertile Crescent People Magazine Unit Project Fertile Crescent People is a popular magazine about the most famous men and women in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia.  Everyone in Mesopotamia reads it, the ladies at Nefertiti’s hair salon gossip about it; and it has even been seen in the bathroom at the pharaoh’s palace! You have just been hired to write your first article for Fertile Crescent People.  This is a big opportunity for you, you because your family has been farming for centuries.  If you do well, you could move up the social pyramid to become a “scribe” (someone who writes for a living)! Your editor has given you a choice of three topics to write your article about: ...