Time Travel

Whenever I walk into the Egyptian section of the Museum of Fine Arts I am immediately sent backwards in time. Not all the way back to Egyptian times, but back to the time that Karen, a fellow teacher, went to New York to see the King Tut exhibit.

She returned to school laden down with books, postcards, a copy of an amulet, and her name written in hieroglyphics. Since the sixth grade curriculum included the study of Egypt she was well prepared with visuals.

After one creative and spirited lesson that culminated with the students creating their own cartouches one young man asked, "Did your parent's write in English or only in hieroglyphics?"