THE MUMMY OF AMMON-KIWU, THE NOVEL

5th and 6th grade

The "JocaLire" collection offers an original literary work accompanied by a detailed teaching aid. Please note, the teaching aid is not included!

Big event in Ploumézac: the town's historical museum is hosting a prestigious exhibition on the pharaoh Semerkhet! Alex, a middle school student with a passion for ancient Egypt, can't wait to visit. Yet, it is not the pharaoh's mummy that calls to her, but that of a cat: a certain Ammon-Kiwu... How can she explain the curious attraction she feels for the animal? Behind its large black eyes that seem to follow her, could the feline have a message to convey? A five-thousand-year-old message...

Objectives:

• Listen to a story and demonstrate understanding by answering questions without referring to the text.
• Participate constructively in discussions with other students in a group to compare reactions or points of view.
• Read, understand, and interpret an age-appropriate literary text and respond to its reading.
• Read and understand a literary work as a whole.
• Write texts in various contexts.
• Reason to analyze the meaning of words in context and based on their morphology.