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Room for complete responses
RST packages include labeled response pages for daily work and short answers. Each digital written-response field allows 1,000 characters. Each final RACE task has two dedicated writing pages with 48 ruled lines in print and digital continuation fields. Use the original questions and the matching page labels.
Grades 6–12 pathways
Purple Ma’at headers appear throughout the PDFs. Included grade band pathways connect evidence analysis and argument to NJSLS and Common Core for Grades 6–8, 9–10, and 11–12. Original readings and advanced content are retained, with scaffolding or extension by grade band.
Kemet and Greek Appropriation
Maps included Geographic activities include reference maps with a compass rose, scale, and legend. Modern reference maps are distinguished from historical maps. Updated October 15, 2026.
Examine Kemetic knowledge, Greek artistic imitation, naming changes and foreign royal power through four readings, map connections and evidence-based writing.
Recognize Kemet’s earlier achievements and investigate specific examples of imitation, appropriation and renaming. Students use evidence to explain cultural influence and assess the limits of broad historical claims.
Five day lesson sequence
- Day 1 · Kemetic knowledge. Examine a mathematical papyrus and Herodotus’s account of knowledge transmission. Separate chronological priority from evidence of a particular transfer.
- Day 2 · Contact and imitation. Study Naukratis and specific Kemetic influences in Greek sculpture and architecture.
- Day 3 · Conquest, naming and royal power. Examine Macedonian and Ptolemaic adoption of Kemetic kingship, naming changes and cultural continuity.
- Day 4 · Conflict and historical claims. Evaluate city state warfare and distinguish imitation, appropriation, plagiarism and conquest through source analysis.
- Day 5 · Assessment and RACE writing. Complete a separate Do Now and Quick Write, 15 selected response questions and a comparative argument using two sources and a reference map.
Student RST
The packet follows the Geography of Africa RST structure. It includes four numbered informational sources, vocabulary, four daily text questions, map connections, daily Do Nows, Quick Writes and exit responses, name and section fields, continuous full width writing lines and a final RACE response.
Teacher materials
Five pages of daily teacher notes include 40 minute instructional sequences with I Do, We Do and They Do, daily NJSLS Social Studies and English Language Arts standards, facilitation guidance, expected answers, misconceptions, differentiation, Amistad connections and reteaching. The separate four page answer key includes written response guidance, assessment answers, a model argument, source references and the 19 point RACE rubric. An optional two page response sheet is included.
View a sample
View the Day 1 reading and lined response pages
Materials to prepare
Use a classroom world atlas and an ancient eastern Mediterranean map. Reference maps are supplied by the teacher and are not included in the packet.
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