1. Happy tuesday! Today you will need: Your Gilgamesh picture.
Bladders empty.
Cell phones off.
Binder on floor. We’ll do binder work tomorrow when we have a longer period.

2. RECALL
Yesterday, we read the Epic of Gilgamesh. What do you facts to you remember?

3. Gilgamesh realizes he can’t live forever but humankind will.
Gilgamesh get youth restoring plant but snake steals it.
Utnapishtum tests Gilgamesh and he fails.
Gilgamesh goes home.
Gilgamesh doesn’t ever want to die. Goes on journey to get immortality from Utnapsishtum.
Gods kill Enkidu.
Gilgamesh understands that the long-lasting success of his city is the closest thing to immortality a mortal can reach.
Gilgamesh and Enkidu kill Bull of Heaven.
Gilgamesh and Enkidu kill Humbaba in the cedar forest.
Enkidu goes to Uruk and battles Gilgamesh and become friends.
Wild Enkidu “tamed” by woman.
Prelude: Introduction to Gilgamesh the ruler.

4. Gilgamesh changed!! Cruel but then Adventurous but then Thought only about himself but then Wanted to live forever but then Any others you can think of?
Enkidu changed!!
Wild but then
Enemy of Gilgamesh but then
Killed the Bull of Heaven but then
Any others you can think of?

5. CCSS.ELA—Literacy. RL.6.5
Analyze how a particular sentence, chapter, scene, or stanza fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the theme, setting, or plot.
This is proof of an important scene because…

6. Final fertile crescent activity!!!

7. CCSS.ELA—Literacy.W.6.9
Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Using the texts, gather information and answer the questions on the worksheet.
Remember: “I think….because…..”

8. Closure Stack up textbooks. Put your worksheet on the textbooks.
Put the Gilgamesh story NEXT to the books.
Stand at your table and wait for further directions.