Regardless, the one issue I have with this unit is that it is not long enough. There is so much more to what is going on and the mythology is so full of so many gods and stories that one little unit discussing only a small handful of tales is simply not going to cut it. I enjoyed the reading greatly, but I want more. I want a lot more. Of course, I have the capabilities to go off and read some more stories from this mythology at my convenience, but the mythology of Ancient Egypt is already so glossed over in most historical accounts and classes, that I hate to see it receive similar treatment here.
To make a long story short - there should be much more Ancient Egypt mythology in this class. Like Greek mythology, it has comedy, tragedy, and gives explanation to the world and especially the mindsets of those living in this area at the time of one of the greatest empires in history. Egypt was always much more than just the pyramids.
The stories.
Chase, I just happened to see this... maybe you should do your project on Egyptian mythology??? That's really how people "vote" about what is important in this class... by the topics they choose for their semester-long projects (which means other students will be reading those stories too!) - the Sacred Texts area for Egypt is excellent, too!!!
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So ponder that... this weekend is the "point of no return" as it were for the projects. Maybe you should do Egypt! Although you know I am crazy about Kalevala too... and now you see what it was like doing the UnTextbook this summer... even if it were two times or three times or four times longer than the 2000 pages it is right now, it would still not be enough! :-)