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Warm-up 09/17/12

All people have strengths and weaknesses. What are some of your strengths? What are some of your weaknesses? Explain them. How do your strengths help you? How do your weaknesses hinder you? If you could change one of your weakness, which one would it be? Why?

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Warm-up 09/17/12

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  1. All people have strengths and weaknesses. What are some of your strengths? What are some of your weaknesses? Explain them. How do your strengths help you? How do your weaknesses hinder you? If you could change one of your weakness, which one would it be? Why? Homework: Hero Journey rough draft due Wednesday. Warm-up 09/17/12

  2. Historical Background and The Epic From The Epic of Gilgamesh

  3. Highly developed civilizations flourished • 3000BC – 100AD • Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Hebrew civilizations • Mesopotamians – clay tablets • Egyptians – hieroglyphic script • Hebrews – The Hebrew Bible Ancient Middle east

  4. The Invention of Writing • 4000-3000BC • Cuneiform: • Sumerians • Word pictures • Sticks • became complete writing system • Gilgamesh Cultural and historical milestones

  5. Hieroglyphics • Egyptians • Pictures represent ideas • Wood or stone • Evolved to represent syllables and sounds Cont.

  6. Mesopotamian Literature • Fertile Crescent • housed many civilizations • Sumerians • 5000-4000BC • Built entire civilization with mud • Homes, pottery, clay tablets, canals • City-states • Many artistic and scientific achievements • Cuneiform • Gilgamesh

  7. Mesopotamian Lit (cont.) • Babylonians • Conquered Sumerians • Adapted cuneiform • Translated their literature • Gilgamesh • Code of Hammurabi • 282 laws • Stable legal system • Assyrians • 900 BC • Magnificent library • Sumerian and Babylonian literature • Babylon regained power. • 612 BC; last great Mesopotamian empire

  8. Egyptian Literature • Most powerful • 3000 years • Gift of the Nile • Thriving trade • Predictable • Safe • Papyrus reeds 3 Time Periods • Old Kingdom • 2700-2200 BC • Pyramids constructed • Prayer and autobiography

  9. Egyptian Literature (cont.) • Middle Kingdom • 2000-1800 BC • Economic & political power • Hymns and songs • New Kingdom • 1600-1100 BC • Peak of political power • Lyric love poems PYRAMID OF POWER

  10. Egyptian literature (cont.) • Hierogylphs • Script in which pictures represent ideas. • Highly religious • In everything they wrote • Fascinated with death • The Book of the Dead http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/videoDetails?segid=4387

  11. Hebrew Literature • Wanderers • Rich cultural life • Monotheism • Hebrew Bible • Old Testament • Their great “monument” • Record of their spiritual, literary, and historical experiences • Diverse literature: psalms, hymns, historical narratives, proverbs • Abraham and Sarah • Left Babylon • Became “the Hebrew people” • People from across the river • Entered Egypt • Saved from starvation • Later enslaved • Ten Commandments • Mosaic Law • Entered Canaan • Temple of Jerusalem • Destroyed twice • Exile (united by Yahweh)

  12. Dead sea scrolls • Found in cave near Dead Sea (1947) • Dated back to 200 BC • Written in Hebrew • Papyrus, animal skin • Most of the Hebrew Bible; oldest written fragments of the Bible ever written

  13. Sumerian story • Quest for eternal life • Oldest epic • Actual historical figure (2700-2500BC) • Clay tablets; passed on and translated • Epic: lengthy narrative poem, detailing a hero’s deeds related to a culture or nation Gilgamesh

  14. Leader of his people Traits reflect his society’s values Superior strength, knowledge, cunning, courage Often takes long, dangerous journey or quest to supernatural realms to achieve a particular goal Possess human weaknesses; they can die Epic hero

  15. Fill out your study guide using the text. Complete questions 1- 10 on page 36: “Reading Check” and “Thinking Critically.” Gilgamesh

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