Mummy's Tomb By Mehak Aulakh and Kritika Gosain

This year of 2017- 2018 there was a Mummy’s tomb hosted by 6th graders! It was held on November 9, 2017 in Leading Edge Academy. The Mummy’s tomb was an event relating to our unit on Ancient Egypt. This event was a tour by 6th grade students to teach people many different things about Ancient Egypt. This was an event open to all 6th grade parents and former 6th graders here at Leading Edge. There were different times for each core class and there were 6 tours in total. Mrs. Meindl’s parent showing started at 6:30 PM. Mrs. Leporiere’s parent showing started at 7:00 PM. Mrs. Bibayoff’s parent showing started at 7:30 PM. Every student had a job in this event. Some of the jobs included tour guides, fake tourists, and gods and goddess. In the beginning of the event there was a speech given by a famous Egyptologist, Dr. Strangelove and his assistant Igor. Then the parents and guests went along the Nile River where there was a great discovery. To teach parents and students about Ancient Egypt there was a stage that showed how Egyptians embalmed bodies, how they prepared for the afterlife and many more amazing things. Everyone did at least something to help make this event amazing and everyone had an amusing time.
There was a big event about Ancient Egypt in each classroom. In Mrs. Bibayoff’s room there was a mummification scene. In Mrs. Leporiere’s room there was a weighing of the heart scene. After the weighing of the heart scene there was someone saying a riddle that you had to answer correctly in order to pass. In Mrs. Meindl’s room there was a god and goddesses scene. There was also a Hall of Terror in Mrs. Leporiere’s room. Besides a god and goddess scene in Mrs. Meindl’s room there was also a dance on Thriller performed by mummies. Instead of having all the big events happening inside the classrooms there was also an Along the Nile scene. In the Along the Nile scene there were wolves and also god and goddess Isis and Osiris. There was also three tour guides for each tour. There was a smart tour guide, a dodo tour guide, and a zombie tour guide. The tour guides stayed with the people the whole time and guided them through the event. If you were someone in the Hall of Terror you would hide behind a black paper wall with holes so then you could try to grab someone and scare them to death. In the weighing of the heart scene there were people who were getting their heart weighed to figure out if they were going to have a happy afterlife or if they went to the underworld. In the mummification scene there were people who were showing us how Egyptians mummified bodies. These informative parts were big things that happened in Egypt’s culture.




This was an amazing experience to remember. It was really fun to perform and at the same time it taught us many things about Egyptians and their culture. Everyone practiced for about 1 week to get ready for this great event. This was our first event that we performed to our parents and other students and it turned out to be a great success. We got to teach, learn, scare, and do many amazing things at this fantastic event.