Start by
giving students the Mummy
Mythology Test (page 11). Go over the correct answers, providing
appropriate information from Chapters 1 and 2. Then read portions of the
book which describe some unusual mummies that have been found (Chapter
4: Tollund Man; Chapter 9, Elmer McCurdy; Chapter 11, the Lemon Grove
mummies).
Writing/research
activities:
Copy the Mummy Report (page
163) and ask students to visit a local museum (which has a mummy
display) or find one mummy description in a library book and complete
the Mummy Report.
How to Make a Mummy
Talk. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995. Dell paperback edition, 1997.