Chapter 3: Ancient Mesopotamia
Planning a Multimedia Presentation
Use the Internet or the library to research scribes in Sumer. Work with a partner to plan a multimedia presentation.
- Who could become a scribe?
- How were scribes educated?
- What kinds of work did they do?
Internet Resources
- Writing
- A good interactive site that explores the world of the scribe in Mesopotamia, from the British Museum.
- http://www.mesopotamia.co.uk/writing/explore/exp_set.html
- Who Learned to Write?
- This Emory University Museum site tells about the education of those chosen to be scribes in the ancient Near East.
- http://www.carlos.emory.edu/ODYSSEY/NEAREAST/writMAIN.html
- About Cuneiform Writing . . .
- An overview of the invention of cuneiform writing that includes information on becoming a scribe, from the University of Pennsylvania Museum.
- http://www.museum.upenn.edu/new/Games/cuneiform.shtml
- Classzone: Creating a Multimedia Presentation
- Classzone's page on how to create a multimedia presentation.
- http://www.classzone.com/books/ms_wh_ancient/page_build.cfm?content=powerpoint_guide&state=none