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:

• Option 1: Who was the greatest (or worst) leader ever?  Write a 5 paragraph (or more) essay/ article/ interview about the greatest (or worst) leader in Fertile Crescent history
• Option 2: I’d like to learn more about…  Take any previous homework assignment and revise/expand it into a 5 paragraph article/ essay.  (Example:  Who Killed King Tut?)
• Option 3: Write a 5 paragraph special report on one of the following Fertile Crescent topics: Cosmetics (makeup); Mummies; Slavery; Farming; Pyramids and Ziggurats; Hieroglyphs and Cuneiform; Warfare in Egypt; Or another topic (see Mr. Cadenhead for permission)