Wednesday, November 19, 2008

ROAR2 - The 26 Letters

The 26 Letters
By Oscar Ogg
Chapter 1

5comments:
- When they move, they don't take everything of theirs to their new home an remake weapons, untensils and etc for their new home.
- They draw to tell stories.
- Their drawings are unfinished most of the time.
- Later on, humans start to become part of the stories.
- Quious are knotted cords use by the Incas.

4questions:
- Who was the first person to draw?
- Who came up with the idea of carving animals on stones?
- What did they use to draw with?
- How were they so artistic?

3 vocabulary:
- Fetishes (page9): "An object that is believed to have magical or spiritual powers, especially such an object associated with animistic or shamanistic religious practices."
- Relics (pg13): " A surviving memorial of something past."
- Phonogram (pg41): "A unit symbol of a phonetic writing system, standing for a speech sound, syllable, or other sequence of speech sounds without reference to meaning."

2literacy terms:
-"...and the creatures who made them were more like apoes than men." (pg6)
-"...that this art, like all art..." (pg9)

1overview sentence:
- This is basicially about how and what the people back in the time does, like why they carved, and how it meant, also how people read it and that they drew on walls to tell story and how it became better and more real life like, also how each cultures had different way of drawing their stories and their symbols mean different things.

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