The Mummy's Curse - Session 5 - Worksheet

The fifth session of 'The Mummy's Curse' worksheet, produced by KS2Gems in 2022, offers an immersive learning experience for students, set on the 3rd of November 1922. Discussion questions probe the characters' relationships and motivations, such as why Konstantin befriends Abdel and how Luna feels about Evelyn's interest in Aidan. The session also ponders why Arthur Conan Doyle would invite notable figures like Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter to dinner. These questions aim to develop students' reading skills, specifically RS3 and RS4, which focus on inference and understanding characters.

Reading activities encourage students to continue a timeline of key events and delve into character analysis for Abdel and Evelyn, with additional resources provided for a deeper exploration. Students are also prompted to consider the hopes and fears of Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter, and to engage in a drama activity by improvising the murder of Tutankhamun. A reading comprehension task is included, alongside a grammar and punctuation hunt focusing on expanded noun phrases, adverbs, modal verbs, direct speech, and the use of dashes and commas for parenthesis. The 'Words to Workshop' section challenges students to understand and use a variety of descriptive and emotive vocabulary. Writing opportunities include crafting a narrative about Tutankhamun's murder, starting a biography of Lord Carnarvon or Howard Carter, and creating instructions on how to make tea and coffee.

Cross-curricular links are abundant in this session, with connections to science topics such as rocks, light, habitats, states of matter, and forces across different year groups. Computing integrates technology by having students create a 3D version of the Valley of the Kings, while history and geography lessons focus on Ancient Egypt and physical geography. Artistic creativity is explored through clay cartouches and shabti, shelter building in DT, and a musical journey to the Jazz era of the 1920s. Religious education covers stories from the Bible set in Egypt and Ancient Egyptian beliefs about the afterlife. Finally, PSHE topics such as respect, tolerance, honesty, and co-operation are highlighted, reinforcing the importance of these values in the classroom and beyond.