On Monday afternoons my spouse and I each tutor a third grade boy as part of the Fort Wayne Community Schools Study Connections program. This afternoon we went prepared with souvenirs to share with the entire group (9 students) and stories to tell about our trip. It was our first time back to tutoring since our vacation.
The students and their tutors were greatly entertained with my spouse's explanation of what it feels like to ride a camel and impressed that we had gone on a balloon ride. One of the little girls in the group said her grandparents are from Egypt and are coming to visit. They all seemed to really like the souvenirs we gave them.
After the group discussion my student and I discussed things more fully. I was astonished that he has heard of Anthony and Cleopatra and he was quite impressed that I had been in a play about them. It turns out that they are studying the history of Rome, Greece and Egypt right now. He was fascinated by a little chart of hieroglyphics and spent some time drawing his name in a cartouche In the ancient Egyptian style.
All in all a delightful finale to our Egyptian adventure.
I will show him this picture of the cartouche of Queen Nefertiri (not Nefertiti, a different one) next week.
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