ROAR2 - The 26 Letters

The 26 Letters
By Oscar Ogg
Chapter 2

5comments:
- Egyptians like to draw many figures of animals and birds and sometimes even a "curious combinations" of birds and animals with human features.
- As the Egyptians ancestors before therm and their offsprings had change and add to the meanings of many pictures.
- Waving water used to stand for the letter "N".
- Each cultures have their own ways of telling stories (pictures had different meanings).
- They all have different ways of coming up with ideas and why and what it meant.

4questions:
- Why didn't they draw plants but animals?
- How come they combined the features of animals, birds and humans together in a drawing?
- Who came up with the idea of drawing?
- When did this all happen, and did it happen at the same time?

3vocabulary:
- Legions (pg43): A large number.
- Hieroglyphs (pg47): A picture or symbol used in hieroglyphic writings.
- Papyrus (pg60): A tall, aquatic plant.

2literacy terms:
- "...more than twice as long as the history of Christian civilization..."(pg50)
- "...and a true alphabet like our own..."(pg58)

1overview sentence:
- This is about how and what the Egyptians had done for their alphabet, and how they read their drawings and each and every pictures have different meanings and that they uses tool to write with and used paper to write on.