Historical Fiction Set In Ancient Sumer - Secret Of The Scribe By Jennifer Johnson Garrity

I always loved history complement studies with historical fiction. I found picture books and novels in abundance while studying Greece and Rome, the revival and reform, or revolutionary and civil wars. But ancient Sumer? The closest I could get was the story of Gilgamesh, but it is an epic, not a novel, and not nearly as appealing to girls from eight to twelve-year-old! Really, girls and boys also love the secret of the clerk, the first historical novel about ancient Sumer I 've seen. Author Jennifer Johnson Garrity transports the
reader back 5000 years to the days of Abraham and the bustling city of Ur the first person put it, it 's the story of a young girl, Tabni, Which grows in comfort as a slave to Sumerian queen until a major disaster forces her to flee the palace by night and make their way into the world alone. Don 't love children of the van and my side of the mountain, where the courageous protagonists must live on their own inventiveness? This universal theme is attractive clerk in the secret too. Tabni For the young clerk weaves her narrative, the reader travels with her boat down the broad Euphrates River to the mall Sumerian Ur, where we experience the grandeur of the ziggurat flashing and the stench of narrow alleys backs. Tabni 's the tale draws us inside. We feel his pain and hunger as she is homeless in a new world. We discovered that she plucks and courage as she is a daring plan while living only in secret. And we tried Tabni 's afraid of the vengeance of many gods who desperately tries to appease her. In "real novel "historical fashion, the clerk secretly teaches the reader about life and customs in Ur-how people lived in this ancient civilization, ate, dressed, worked and worshiped. The words in italics Placed sprinkled throughout the book point to a glossary of unfamiliar terms, making it easy for the teacher or homeschooling father to Incorporate in their studies Sumerian vocabulary. The secret of the clerk would also make a great springboard for arts and crafts. The book introduces students to the Sumerians shops such as weaving, metalwork, jewelry-making , and ceramics, opening all kinds of possibilities of accompanying projects. Trained as a clerk, Tabni written in clay tablets, Suggesting that a project that joins art dovetail with the Sumerian cuneiform learning.