Grade 6 Fall — Ancient Civilizations from Deep Time to 476 CE: Mesopotamia, Egypt and Nubia, Indus, China, Hebrews, Greece, and Rome — Whose Sources? Whose Voices? Whose Living Descendants?

Capstone — author a 44-page bound class Ancient Civilizations Inquiry Exhibit storybook (Foxfire methodology, 3-copy distribution: self / school library / one descendant-community partner) covering all 6+ civilizations + apply at least 3 primary sources from the unit, AND author a 5-paragraph Civic-Action Letter to a UNESCO World Heritage Centre official, museum director, or national antiquities ministry on a contemporary world-heritage issue (repatriation debate, site preservation, or museum funding)

Each student authors 2 pages of the bound storybook: one civilization-focus page + one comparative-thinking page (one of the 6 essential questions); class binds 22 students × 2 pages = 44 pages; 3 copies bound (self + school library + descendant-community partner — local heritage organization OR Penn Museum / British Museum / Met Museum educator network); each student also drafts and mails a Civic-Action Letter to a UNESCO official, museum director, or antiquities ministry on a contemporary world-heritage issue (Parthenon Marbles repatriation OR Iraq Museum reconstruction OR Sudan National Museum support OR student-chosen)

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