Recently, on the 9th of November, Leading Edge had its annual Mummy’s Tomb play to celebrate their unit on Egypt in Social Studies. Mummy’s Tomb is a play in which “tour guides” played by students, lead a tour group through the Nile and into a tomb. There were three pairs of tour guides per class, therefore making nine pairs of tour guides; each pair included a dumb tour guide and a smart tour guide, both of them would play an important role in the play because they are the main characters. The rest were characters like mummies, the Sphinx, Egyptian gods, and more. There were scenes in the play such as, the weighing of the heart, the mummification scene, and let’s not forget, the Thriller dance mummies. For those of you parents, students, and/or other people who couldn’t make it, here’s how things went down.
We started in the Multi-Purpose Room with the “King Tut” (performed by Jaxson) and “Walk Like An Egyptian”(performed by Sofia P), then the tour guides, under Mrs. Meindl’s instructions, started leading their tours, first was Mrs. Meindl’s class, then Mrs. Leporiere’s, and last but not last, Ms. Bibayoff’s class. Many of the tour guides that have not yet lead their tours performed as backup dancers for the “King Tut” and “Walk Like An Egyptian” performances. Once a tour was told to start, the tour guides, along with the tour group would go along the Nile, telling facts about it as the group walks along it. Then, the smart tour guide would stop the group right in front of the hallways entrance, and that was the scene of the Nile Beast(Landon) and the Ostrich(Max), the Nile Beast would chase the Ostrich and the Ostrich would get killed. After that scene, the group would continue to walk toward Ms. Bibayoff’s room. There would be a scene where tomb robbers were killing, then the group would proceed to Ms. Bibayoff’s room (the entrance to the tomb), but the door was covered in hieroglyphics. This is the part where the dumb/dodo tour guide would read the hieroglyphics, which said, “Do not enter or you will die,” Just before entering, Mariah, who was supposed to be an injured tour guide, who warned the group to not enter, as her group “all died when they went in there, only she survived” But the tour guides would ignore her warning and go in the tomb anyway. Inside, there was a king (Mark) and queen (Shalom), who were in their eternal rest, which they were soon to be awoken by the dodo tour guide, by touching them. The dodo tour guide touches the queen/king, and the queen and king order them to be killed, as the group try to go out, they would be blocked by earthquake zombies. The group heads to the main area, where the mummification scene began. Anubis (Nate), a high priest (Maya E), canopic jar girls (Kayla, Alaiya, Breanna A, Sofia N) would be performing a ritual on a dead body (Eric). Spoiler, the dead body tries to scare the group after been told by the priest to examine it. After that, the tour group heads toward Mrs. Leporiere’s room, as they enter Hall of Terror, which is a part of the class where there will be students who try to scare the group. At the end of the Hall of Terror, there was a snake pit. The snake(Nick) would eat/kill its victim (Evan M), after that, the group heads to the front of the classroom to see another mini-play, this time it’s a weighing of the heart, starring Anubis (Atharv), Osiris (Ibraheem T), the two souls (Ibrahim D and Daniel Y), and Amnet (Moses). One of the souls would weigh heavier than the feather of Ma’at, the goddess of truth, and justice, their heart would be fed to the god Amnet, who would eat the dead soul’s heart, and one would proceed to the Afterlife. Right after this scene, the tour group would go out, but get stopped by two guards (Lamont and David) to answer the Sphinx’s (Maya G) riddle. The riddle would be “What walks on four legs in the morning, two in the noon, and three at night?” A fake tourist, played by a student would shout out a random answer, and then he/she would be killed by the guards. Then the dodo tour guide would say the correct answer (a man), and the group would be granted access to the treasure room (Mrs. Meindl’s room). Once the tour group entered the room, the dodo tour guide would immediately focus on the treasure in the middle of the room. The dodo tour guide would take it, then Joaquin would kill the dodo tour guide. Then the queen (Emily) gets mad, and the gods Ma’at (Sam), Seshat (Lien), and Thoth (Andrew) would decide how they would punish the dodo tour guide. Then the king (Mycah) yells ENOUGH, and bring the mummies alive. Then the mummies dance and after the dance is over, the tour guide leads the group
back into the MPR where the tour finally ends. 
That was a lot to say (or type), but the entire thing was really fun, and if I ever had a chance to go back to do it all over again, we would.
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